January 2021 Art News

Created just before World War I, In Exaltation of Flowers was Edward Steichen's most ambitious achievement in that medium.
Paulina Pobocha, associate curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, talks about one of the “most significant works made during the second half of the 20th century”: October 18, 1977 (1988), Gerhard Richter’s contemporary take on history painting.
On January 14, Artcurial offered a record-setting original, unpublished cover design from The Adventures of Tintin, one of the most iconic European comics of the 20th century.
In this iconic oil on canvas, a testimony to Wilfredo Lam's technical mastery, the artist depicts a polymorphic fantastical figure remnant of the artist's Afro-Cuban cultural background. 
Takamatsu’s haunting black and white imagery explores narratives of death and society, through a unique depth-mapping technique that he developed, in which classic mediums such as drawing, airbrush and gouache painting are combined with computer graphics.
When the Outsider Art Fair (OAF) opens on January 29, it will have a decidedly post-pandemic stride.
The Detroit Institute of Arts presents a survey of over ninety photographs by Russ Marshall whose black-and-white imagery was inspired by the Motor City’s streets, architecture, music and factory workers for over 50 years.
Painter Davood Roostaei has lived in many places and had many lives. His work shows the complexity of his experiences, which he has created a new artistic style to be able to fully express–Cryptorealism.
Aliza Nisenbaum is best known for her bright, large-scale portraits of people and community groups.
Paintings of turquoise swimming pools drenched in California sunlight may be the first images that come to mind at the mention of British artist David Hockney, but drawing is the continuous thread running through Hockney’s life.