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$54 Million Jackson Pollock Painting Uncovered in Raid
Source artforum.com Authorities in Bulgaria discovered a hitherto-unknown painting by Jackson Pollock in the course of investigating an international art-trafficking ring. According to Bulgarian National Radio, which broke
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Unease Emanates from Alexander Harrison’s Painted Portals to an Uncanny World
Source Colossal “Land of Infinite Wonders” (2023), acrylic on panel, 16 x 12 inches. All images © Alexander Harrison, courtesy of Kasmin, New York, shared with permission Through small paintings that often stretch less than a foot, artist Alexander Harrison coaxes scenes of both delicate natural beauty and profound unease. Once-fresh flowers wilt and fall, night descends…
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Kaci Smith Weaves Colorful Patterns into Miniature Looms Fashioned from Wishbones and Branches
Source Colossal All images © Kaci Smith, shared with permission In autumn of 2020, artist Kaci Smith was faced with a compound dilemma: daily life was still affected by the pandemic while devastating wildfires spread around her home in Northern California. “The air was so filled with smoke that even my studio became off limits,”…
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Meticulous Flat Lays of Vintage Toys and Miniatures Celebrate the History of Play and Design
Source Colossal All images © Jane Housham, shared with permission “There’s a feeling I remember which has to do with the seriousness of play, when you were completely absorbed in playing a game with your toys and fully believed in the world you’d created, and it really mattered,” Jane Housham says. “I look longingly back…
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How to Give Great Press Interviews
Source Artsy Shark Here’s how you as an artist can create a plan, attract the press and provide a terrific interview on your own terms. The post How to Give Great Press Interviews appeared first on Artsy Shark.
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A Portfolio: Alexis Ralaivao
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Today, we look at the works of French painter, Alexis Ralaivao, who comes to our A Portfolio section after standout shows at both ATM and Bill Brady in recent years (of which we have covered here). As he told us in an interview a few years back,…
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Object Lessons: A Review of Tamsin Spencer Smith @ Upper Market Gallery, San Francisco
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home Tamsin Spencer Smith exhibits over 20 paintings, all from 2023, in a pop-up show at Upper Market Gallery this coming weekend, Friday, March 24th to Sunday the 26th. Two primary styles comprise the work, one utilizes a loose painting method that purposely obliterates literal reading of the…
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Where Paths Crossed in the Works of Hilary Pecis
Source Juxtapoz Magazine – Juxtapoz Magazine – Home A few years ago, Hilary Pecis told us, “I really enjoy making the landscape paintings the most. I move between landscape and still life pretty fluidly and tend to work on them simultaneously. There are many things I enjoy about both, such as their relationship within the…
