Source artforum.com  To my mind, Gladys Nilsson is the reigning queen of weird-ass figuration and has been for more than fifty years. She was a founding member of the Hairy Who, a group of six Chicago artists who showed

Source artforum.com  NEARLY FORTY YEARS after Alex Katz’s last New York retrospective, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum has mounted “Alex Katz: Gathering,” a career survey encompassing eight decades of the nonagenarian

Source artforum.com  IN LATE OCTOBER, on the opening night of the Alex Katz retrospective at New York’s Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, crowds of people in a party mood lined the spiral ramp from the ground-floor rotunda

Source artforum.com  The early figurative paintings of First Nation artist Daniel Boyd blatantly equated the British colonization of Australia with a piratical heist. “No Beard,” a series he produced between 2005 and 2007,

Source Colossal   Photos by Julie Purpura, all images © Center of Order and Experimentation, shared with permission Just like recipes are passed from one generation to the next, so are the methods behind the decadent cakes and pastries of Cereria Introna. Piped with thick pink frosting or dusted with sugar, the confections are handmade in Italy…

Source Colossal   All images © Cap_able, shared with permission Here’s some unusual criteria to consider when deciding what to wear: if you’re scanned by facial-recognition software, do you prefer being detected as a zebra, giraffe, or a dog? Cap_able, an Italian fashion-meets-tech startup, prompts consumers to consider individual rights to privacy when making decisions about…

Source Artsy Shark  Want to draw more visitors to your art website? Consider blogging, which can help your traffic numbers in several ways. The post Drive Art Website Traffic by Blogging appeared first on Artsy Shark.

Source artforum.com  In his 1922 poem “The Waste Land,” T. S. Eliot describes an acute aridity: “Here is no water but only rock / Rock and no water and the sandy road.” Giulia Cenci channels this concurrence of dryness and