When gallerist Guy Lyman answered the phone for our Art & Object interview, he had just driven ten hours from his gallery in New Orleans to his daughter’s home in Texas to escape the potential consequences of Category 2 hurricane Francine as it was making landfall in Louisiana.
October 2024 Art News
After years of hanging unsuspectingly in an Italian family home, a portrait that has now been attributed to Pablo Picasso is on the verge of official authentication. The titleless work, thought to be of Picasso’s long-time muse and mistress Dora Maar, was found in 1962 by a man named Luigi Lo Rosso, while cleaning out a cellar in Capri.
In a broad sense, art and science have always occupied two sides of the same coin.
A sense of interconnectedness resides at the heart of mixed-media artist Rose B. Simpson’s work. In Seed, to produce the least amount of steel plate waste for her monumental figural “stylized abstractions,” Simpson puzzle-pieced the sections to fit together– in part as “a metaphor for our connection.”
To say Olafur Eliasson is a light and space artist is to reduce him to the fundamental elements of his practice.
Movement-based sculptor Brie Ruais– whose work was featured in Phaidon’s 2017 global survey of 100 of today's most important clay and ceramic artists, Vitamin C: Clay + Ceramic– currently has a solo show in New York City.
Africa sits as the world’s second-largest continent and holds an intriguing and extraordinary history. Among its 54 distinctive countries, the genesis of developed humanity in Ethiopia rests. Possessing a culture of spiritualism and strength, its subsequent works of art cannot be understated.
