It was 1939, just two years after Picasso painted his anti-war masterpiece, Guernica, in response to the fascist bombing of the titular city in northern Spain. France and Britain declared war on Germany in response to the latter’s invasion of Poland, and artists like Picasso were finding Paris a nerve-wracking place to live.
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The visual directness of Christina Ramberg’s paintings can be misleading. Take Shady Lacy (1971), which shows the back of a shapely figure dressed in a lacy matching set. Ramberg renders the figure boldly, almost schematically, except for the daisies delicately patterned across the lace.
Japanese painter Keita Morimoto's first solo exhibition, To Nowhere and Back, opened at the Almine Rech Tribeca gallery March 14th. Running through April 26th, the exhibition highlights Morimoto's striking urban nightscapes. His almost cinematic vignettes masterfully depict solitude, disorientation, and alienation, while also invoking the strange beauty and instances of transcendent hope found within mundane moments of city life.
Internationally renowned Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa (b. 1977) creates stunning installations using a variety of media, including textiles, paper, wood, minerals, and unexpected objects (mirrors, perfumes, etc.).
Artistic patronage did not flee Rome following its traumatic sack by mutinous Spanish and German soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire in 1527. Seven years later, Alessandro Farnese (1468-1549) was elected Pope Paul III and sponsored a series of urban projects intended to revitalize the scarred city.
The exhibition, Heart On, at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts and the Art Gallery of Ontario brings long-overdue attention to Joyce Wieland’s pioneering work in film and visual art.
DOOM: House of Hope is a three hour long performance by Anne Imhof at the Park Avenue Armory, curated by Klaus Biesenbach. It opened to the public on March 3rd and will run through the 12th.
The exhibition Qi Baishi: Inspiration in Ink, on view at the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco until April 7th, 2025, celebrates the 160th birth anniversary of the renowned Chinese painter Qi Baishi (1864-1957).
Alexis Rockman is having a busy year. The multidisciplinary painter's work is currently on display in simultaneous shows across America. At the New York-based gallery Magenta Plains, his show Naples: Course of Empire is on view until March 1st. For that show, Rockman produced large-scale oil paintings that recall 18th-century history paintings.
Presenting at the San Francisco-based gallery, Jessica Silverman, Ponca artist Julie Buffalohead presents her second solo show with the West Coast collective entitled "The Wisdom of Wild Things.”
