Natasha Gural
Fine Art and Business Writer at Forbes
An award-winning journalist, I write about fine art and the business of art for Forbes. Other writing includes @lubachka_novel, finance, biochem, technology.
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6 days ago |
forbes.com | Natasha Gural
Three distinct figures sprawl across a seven-foot-wide, four-foot-tall landscape canvas, the man in the center and the woman on the right represent Jean-Michel Basquiat’s parents, Gerard and Matilda. The artist portrays himself on the left, in this deeply personal triple portrait, conveying the fraught yet devoted familial bonds with all three figures crowned by halos. Simple, heavy black lines form complex figures, with only their faces fully flooded with color.
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1 week ago |
forbes.com | Natasha Gural
From Elizabeth Catlett’s terra-cotta head Elvira (1997) – a universal celebration of the goddess within every woman – to Sanford Biggers’ roughly six-foot-tall woodcut Afropick (2005) – headed by a fist clenched in a Black Power salute – The Bronx Museum of the Arts is a comprehensive art historical retelling of great artists whose work has too often been overlooked, undermined, or cast aside by the broader global art world.
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1 week ago |
forbes.com | Natasha Gural
Crawling or kneeling to fully inhale the melange of amaranth, chicory, cacao, coffee, juniper, grapefruit, hawthorn, orange, sarsaparilla, sorghum, yucca, and sassafras, visitors to the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas are drawn into a multi-sensory exploration of materials that challenge human perception. Intoxicated by the redolence, close viewers carefully examine the textures and forms snaking through the gallery.
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2 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Natasha Gural
Two figures – one in a breezy, colorful striped sundress and a white hair band, another with cropped hair in a white t-shirt and denim miniskirt – hold hands. The woman in the dress gazes back at the viewer, while the other woman stares intently at a powerful stream of hot, expanding gases that escape through the nozzle of a rocket that’s just launched. The horizon is low and the pale blue sky occupies most of the monumental canvas.
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3 weeks ago |
forbes.com | Natasha Gural
Travel back to the everyday 1970s with Mickalene Thomas, exploring quintessential living rooms where a lemon yellow sofa and verdant plants punch up the linoleum flooring, fabricated paneling, upholstery, and wallpaper.
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