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2 weeks ago | 
whitehotmagazine.com | Donald Kuspit
By DONALD KUSPIT June 9, 2025Robert Zeller, a master of figurative painting and a Surrealism-inspired painter, has curated an exhibition of contemporary Surrealist painting for Robilant + Voena, a gallery known for exhibiting the works of Caravaggesque artists. Caravaggio’s realism has been said to be surreal by reason of its tenebrism, extreme contrasts of light and dark, implicitly the conscious and the unconscious, going back to Plato’s myth of the cave.
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4 weeks ago | 
artforum.com | Donald Kuspit
We know who the Filipino American Alfonso Angel Yangco Ossorio (1916–1990) was—a prominent Abstract Expressionist painter and a friend to both Jackson Pollock and Jean Dubuffet, the latter of whom regarded him as a fellow art brut master. But who was Nandor Fodor (1895–1964)? He was an authority on paranormal phenomena but eventually broke with the spiritualists, explaining mediumship in psychoanalytic terms.
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1 month ago | 
artforum.com | Donald Kuspit
Diane Burko’s “Bearing Witness,” her exhibition at Cristin Tierney, examined the boundlessness of nature’s sublimity, even in the midst of terrifying ecological collapse. The artist’s mixed-media paintings—grand, spectacular works that are both figurative and abstract—are an ingenious fusion of AbEx abandon and impressionistic delicacy. Take Summer Heat 1 & 2, 2020, which is seven feet high and more than thirteen feet wide.
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2 months ago | 
whitehotmagazine.com | Donald Kuspit
And then strange motions will abound. Yet let’s be content, and the times lament, yousee the world turned upside down.
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2 months ago | 
artforum.com | Donald Kuspit
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Mar 28, 2025 | 
whitehotmagazine.com | Donald Kuspit
Andy Denzler Hybrid Souls Opera Gallery New York 20 March - 12 April 2025 By DONALD KUSPIT March 28, 2025 Dialectically reconciling painting—sometimes ruthlessly, not to say recklessly painterly, as in Study for Shuttered Figures II, 2025—and photography, Andy Denzler overcomes the antagonism between them that has existed since the painter Paul Delaroche, on first seeing a photograph in 1840, declared “From today, painting is dead!”.A few years later, Charles Baudelaire argued that...
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Mar 10, 2025 | 
whitehotmagazine.com | Donald Kuspit
By DONALD KUSPIT March 9, 2025…this pleasure of traveling is a testimony of uneasiness and irresolution, and, in sooth,these two are our governing and predominating qualities.
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
artforum.com | Donald Kuspit
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Feb 22, 2025 | 
whitehotmagazine.com | Donald Kuspit
By DONALD KUSPIT February 22, 2025 Does it make sense to connect the painter Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840) and the physician Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815)—“at times compared to Columbus,” for Mesmer also “discovered a new world”—the unconscious, and “a new principle called animal magnetism,” and with that “a healing method that retained no ties with religion and satisfied the requirements of an ‘enlightened’ era.”(1) Friedrich’s paintings have been said to be religious—Christian—in...
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Feb 22, 2025 | 
whitehotmagazine.com | Donald Kuspit
By DONALD KUSPIT February 22, 2025The German Romanticists were interested in animal magnetism for two reasons: the first being the attraction of Mesmer’s theory of a universal physical “fluid.” Romantic philosophers visualized the universe as a living organism endowed with a soul pervading the whole and connecting its parts. Mesmer’s physical fluid—had its existence been demonstrated—would have furnished evidence of the Romantic conception.
