Natasha Gural

Janelle Monáe, Artists, Scholars, Amplify Legacy Of Loïs Mailou Jones, Recreate The Little Paris Group

From Haitian, French, and New England landscapes, to an array of costumes, textile designs, watercolors, paintings, and collages, the oeuvre of Loïs Mailou Jones fluidly spans genres, styles, mediums, and themes to convey mastery that should be…

Mystic Mariner: Reid Stowe’s Monumental, Spiritual Narratives Of Solo Life At Sea Take The Art World By Storm

Masked and obscured figures, some with elongated necks, peek through an intricate, abstracted, multimedia narrative that hints at a nautical, contemporary re-imagining of Henri Rousseau’s lush, fantastical jungles. Bold orange and oceanic blue lines…

Clever Design, Brilliant Lighting, Thoughtful Curation, Enhance Elegance, Appreciation Of Modern, Contemporary Highlights At TEFAF-Maastricht

Alternating white and pale gray 8.7 centimeter-wide stripes arranged in a mesmerizing geometric design are reflected in mirrors to magnify the dynamic space, broaden our perspective and depth perception, and create echoes. We’re drawn into an…

TEFAF-Maastricht Celebrates Stellar Sales To Museums And Private Collectors, Including Contemporary Blockbusters That Captured My Gaze During Previews

Kehinde Wiley’s exquisite, monumental Portrait of Tarek Ali Ellis (2023) sold to a private collector for $950,000, underscoring Sean Kelly of New York’s phenomenal debut at Europe’s preeminent global art fair. Read more about the portrait and the…

Celebrating The Luminous Legacy Of Preeminent Maritime Painter John Stobart

John Stobart depicted the Golden Age of Sail with meticulous attention to detail, each brushstroke drawing us closer into maritime history navigated by his keen eye for key port cities around the world. Leicester, England-born Stobart, whose…

Large-Scale Contemporary Artworks Astound At TEFAF-Maastricht

Clad in a pale blue Converse jumpsuit adorned with a lapel pin of a baby and exposing a neck tattoo, American YouTuber Tarek Ali Ellis cradles Michael Morgan in his arms. Ellis gazes at the viewer, conveying heroism with his embrace of a vulnerable…

Sotheby’s ‘Contemporary Discoveries’ Showcases Works From Wide Array Of Masters And Artists To Collect Now, Such As Móyòsóré Martins

An oversized set of clenched teeth outlined in red squiggly lips along with three eyes comprise a face, the mouth repeated as a smaller motif along with what could be clusters of googly eyes. The totemic figure fluidly blends abstraction and…

Four Remarkable Emerging Black Artists Transform The Knickerbocker Hotel St. Cloud Rooftop Into Thoughtful Gallery Experience

We gaze into the pensive eyes of a young Jean-Michel Basquiat, engaging with the childhood innocence that persisted even as the prolific master’s life and career were cut short at age 27. Mustard seed replicates the texture of the Puerto…

Frick Masterpiece Inspires Anthology Of Short Stories Written By NYU Graduate Students, Amplifying Art History

Literature and visual art have always been in dialogue, with images and words inspiring each other across centuries, genres, styles, geographies, and mediums. While art and literature have simultaneously represented similar movements throughout…

Enjoy A Creative Ride With Basquiat, Haring, Scharf, Hockney, Dalí, Other Masters Via Phaidon’s Recreation Of ‘Luna Luna’ Art Amusement Park

1987 was a roller coaster year. The first The Simpsons cartoon short aired on The Tracey Ullman Show. West German citizen Mathias Rust,landed a small Cessna airplane in Red Square. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped a staggering 22.6 percent in…

Artist Susan Philipsz Commands Our Attention With ‘Separated Strings’, Conveying Truth Of The Holocaust

Pavel Haas was deported to Auschwitz in mid-October 1944 and immediately killed, but his music survives to remind us of horrors of recent history. Haas studied with preeminent Czech composer Leoš Janáček, and became renowned in his own right,…

How Scent Guides Our Visual Appreciation, A Journey With Diptyque At Metrograph

Imagine yourself sailing on a traditional junk through the shallow waters of Vietnam’s world-renowned Hạ Long Bay, flanked by towering lotus leafs. The magnificent limestone mountains cast a vivid blue reflection on the emerald waters that formed a…

‘Seeing Loud: Basquiat And Music’ Amplifies The Neo-Expressionist Master’s Undeniable Bond With Sound And Vision

Eyeballs popping out of their sockets, one stick figure with fists like boxing gloves grins manically as she clocks another stick figure in the face, the victim’s squiggly mouth foreshadowing the woozy face emoji. In the same white screen to the…

French Artist André-Pierre Arnal Subverts Formal Elements Of Painting, Gives Viewers ‘Glimmer Of Light’

Line, shape, space, form, tone, texture, pattern, color, and composition are combined and organized in various ways to create what we know as paintings, but that process is often lost on the viewer. French artist André-Pierre Arnal, an influential…

Frick Acquires Its First Female Renaissance Portrait Gifted From Trust Of Philanthropist Assadour O. Tavitian

Her right shoulder juts forward to expose a semi-profile of her face as her gaze shifts left to meet ours. Her pink brocade dress, frilly neck ruff, and elaborate and prominent jewelry and headdress hint at her social status. She appears relaxed yet…

Renowned Mexican Artists Design Collector Boxes To Celebrate Jose Cuervo’s Award-Winning Reserva De La Familia Extra Añejo

The colors, shapes, and composition of Structuring a Landscape represent and amplify the glassy luster of the volcanic obsidian, the abrasiveness of volcanic rock, and the rosettes of succulent or leathery agave leaves. Working as part of the Mexican…

Claude Monet And Olafur Eliasson In Conversation At The Frick Informs Our Perception Of Color, Light, Environments

Claude Monet moved his family from Argenteuil, a northwestern suburb of Paris, to Vétheuil, a commune on the Seine some 60 kilometers northwest of the city, in 1878. His wife died a year later, but Monet's creative process continued to flourish in…

Art Museum Visitors Must Experience Positive And Negative Emotions To Work Toward Empathy: Study

Art appreciation helps us to better understand how others feel, allowing us to relate to people from different backgrounds and broadening our world view. Despite a lack of empirical research supporting the theory that the visual arts promote empathy,…

‘Is It Art?’ Scholars Test Viewers’ Perception Of Art Vs. Scientific Data

Inspired by Marcel Duchamp’s Readymades, a group of European scholars set out to explore the question “Is it Art?” as it pertains to ambiguity and aesthetics. The Dada trailblazer challenged long-standing assumptions about what art should be, and how…

New York Gallery Uncovers Auction Fakes, Prompting Catalogue Raisonné For French Painter Antoine Blanchard

The world’s leading dealer of artwork by Antoine Blanchard, best known for his glimmering Parisian street scenes, has completed an updated catalogue raisonné for the mysterious French painter. Rehs Galleries of New York, regarded among the world’s…