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1 week ago | 
nytimes.com | Dale Berning Sawa
You have a preview view of this article while we are checking your access. When we have confirmed access, the full article content will load. Katie Paterson, a Scottish artist known for deeply research-based works, continues her universal explorations with two shows in England.
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1 week ago | 
theguardian.com | Dale Berning Sawa
You only have to glance at William Kentridge’s family tree to realise why he is such an outsider. His maternal grandmother, Irene Geffen, was South Africa’s first female barrister while his mother, Felicia Geffen, became an anti-apartheid lawyer. Then there’s his father, Sydney Kentridge, the indomitable QC who represented Nelson Mandela in the 1960s and fought for justice for Steve Biko in the 70s. Studying law would have been the obvious path.
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2 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Dale Berning Sawa
Cezanne 2025, a programme of events and exhibitions to be held in the French painter’s home town of Aix-en-Provence promises to mark “the year the city reunites with its most famous resident”.
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2 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Dale Berning Sawa
Rumours of painting’s demise have been greatly exaggerated, as Mark Twain might have said. The most expensive work ever? A painting (Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi, $450m). The most expensive work by a living male artist? A painting (Jasper Johns’s Flag, $110m). The most expensive work by a living female artist? A painting (Marlene Dumas’s Miss January, $13.6m). And on and on.
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4 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Dale Berning Sawa
“Wouldn’t it be marvellous to paint as if painting had never existed?” Paul Cézanne once said. He called the Louvre “the book from which we learn to read”, full of Old Masters that were both the fount of wisdom for a young artist and a past to be jettisoned if they ever wanted to make something true to themselves. The Centre Pompidou-Metz this month opens an unusual group show, Copyists, which is animated by precisely this high-voltage duality.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Dale Berning Sawa
Let your eyes sink into the hand-painted extravagance of the Rothschild Pentateuch and, whether you can read it or not, you might feel a sense of awe. The manuscript—crafted by candlelight by two Jewish scribes—boasts more than 1,000 pages, hundreds of which are illuminated with animals and plants in the margins, elaborate Hebrew initials and full-page depictions of objects such as a golden menorah.
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1 month ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Dale Berning Sawa
A radio broadcaster once asked Jean Tinguely whether his machines looked like him. The Swiss artist is best known for his Dadaist kinetic sculptures, mechanical things with cogs and spikes that whirr and clatter—and often self-destruct. “Do my machines look like me?” he replied. “I really rather hope they don’t! Because they express a certain amount of excitement, of madness even.” Behind it all, he said, he himself remained “relatively calm and stable”.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Dale Berning Sawa |Eddy Frankel |Tim Jonze |Charlotte Jansen |Oliver Wainwright |Evan Moffitt
Louise Bourgeois’s spider opens the museum (2000)Frances Morris, then head of displays“Louise Bourgeois symbolised what I wanted Tate Modern to be: a place where you would have extraordinary encounters with artists who weren’t in the canon. She proposed an installation with three towers for the Turbine Hall and we suggested also borrowing a small group of her spiders to put on the ramp down into the hall, to lure people in.
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2 months ago | 
nytimes.com | Dale Berning Sawa
Otobong Nkanga's boundary-breaking and prize-winning art is on view at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas. Two years ago, the artist Otobong Nkanga was announced as the 2025 winner of the Nasher Prize, honoring her work in sculpture. Credit... Nitashia Johnson for The New York Times This article is part of our Museums special section about how artists and institutions are adapting to changing times.
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2 months ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Dale Berning Sawa
Ask any beleaguered post-Covid museum director what they need right now, and they will likely be quite blunt. They need visitors to come back and staff to stick around. They also need a functioning building with the funds to maintain it, and as they are museum directors, they want that building to be beautiful. And they need tools for wrangling the complexities of the world on their doorstep. As it turns out, what many mean when they say all this is: we need Annabelle Selldorf.
