May 2025 Art News
To the untrained eye, the art of ancient Rome may appear no different from that which was produced by the ancient Greeks before them.
Known for his contributions to optical art, light art, and kinetic art, German painter and sculptor Heinz Mack (1931) has been exhibiting internationally since 1959. Co-founder of the ZERO movement– a minimalistic artist collective focused on the fundamentals of color, space, and motion–Mack has spent over seven decades exploring the numinous through paintings, sculptures, and massive outdoor installations.
Now on view at the Met, Sargent & Paris, as the title eludes, explores artist John Singer Sargent’s time living in Paris from 1874 through 1885, before he moved to London.
203 Fine Art and the Estates of Lee Mullican & Luchita Hurtado present a selection of paintings from the 1950s by the celebrated Taos Modern, Lee Mullican (1919-1998). These abstracted paintings, dated 1956 to 1958, were created shortly after Mullican’s move to Los Angeles, marking a subtle yet striking shift in his practice.
The artistic creations and advancements of Ancient Greece have undoubtedly had profound and lasting effects on the development of later art production, particularly within the western canon.
In June of 1972, a photograph was snapped as a group of children charged through the streets near the town of Trảng Bàng in Vietnam. The terror in their faces depicts the aftermath of a napalm bomb dropped by a plane from the South Vietnam Air Force on a group of South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians.
Multi-dimensional artist Kiah Celeste (1994) reappropriates found objects, gleaning material from urban and industrial environments, to build sculpture and framed wall pieces into surreal amalgamations that seem at once organic and urbane. Her sculptural process can be very physically demanding, and this physicality is an important part of her creation process.
