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3 weeks ago | 
pressherald.com | Sebastian Smee
NEW YORK — To the extent that he was patronized, overlooked, thwarted and minimized until just before the end of his life, only to be feted with museum retrospectives now that he is dead, you could argue that Jack Whitten was an exemplary 20th-century artist. But that thought is too depressing. Whitten (1939-2018) did receive recognition during his lifetime, including a traveling retrospective in 2014 and a National Medal of Arts awarded by President Barack Obama in 2016.
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3 weeks ago | 
theartnewspaper.com | Dale Berning Sawa |Chloë Ashby |Sebastian Smee |Karen Chernick
If you thought Henri Matisse an art-world staple—a true incontournable—his work entering the public domain in 2025 is only set to cement that ubiquity. He is already “everywhere”, as Charlotte Barat-Mabille, the curator at the Musée d’Art Moderne in Paris, puts it. “Especially since the paper cutouts, our visual culture has been steeped in his aesthetic, to the point where, today, we don’t even realise that Matisse is at the origin of that,” Barat-Mabille says.
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3 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Sebastian Smee
Rammellzee ran riot through the culture. He now has a museum show in Paris. (washingtonpost.com) Rammellzee ran riot through the culture. He now has a museum show in Paris. By Sebastian Smee 2025032811000000 PARIS — If you ride a bike along the right bank of the Seine in Paris, between the Pont des Arts and the Pont Neuf, you will probably go through the Tuileries Tunnel.
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3 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Sebastian Smee
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysPARIS — If you ride a bike along the right bank of the Seine in Paris, between the Pont des Arts and the Pont Neuf, you will likely go through the Tuileries Tunnel. Since the summer of 2022, this half-mile-long pedestrian tunnel has functioned as a giant, constantly changing art gallery.
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4 weeks ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Sebastian Smee
A painting of a miracle that’s nothing less than a miracle (washingtonpost.com) A painting of a miracle that’s nothing less than a miracle By Sebastian Smee 2025032715001000 Duccio di Buoninsegna was the radical, poetic artist who guided a group of other artists working in Siena, Italy, in the 14th century. As the recent Siena exhibition in New York so beautifully demonstrated, these artists helped redefine Western painting for centuries to come.
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4 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Sebastian Smee
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysDuccio di Buoninsegna was the radical, poetic artist who guided a group of other artists working in Siena, Italy, in the 14th century. As the recent Siena exhibition in New York so beautifully demonstrated, these artists helped redefine Western painting for centuries to come.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Sebastian Smee
On Sunday night, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that “Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves.” Somewhat surprisingly, he then unleashed his most ferocious inner art critic and critically vaporized the portrait of himself hanging (among other presidential portraits) in the Colorado Capitol. I immediately thought of the official 1954 portrait of Winston Churchill by Graham Sutherland, at that time arguably Britain’s best-known modern painter.
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1 month ago | 
washingtonpost.com | Sebastian Smee
On Sunday night, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that “Nobody likes a bad picture or painting of themselves.” Somewhat surprisingly, he then unleashed his most ferocious inner art critic and critically vaporized the portrait of himself hanging (among other presidential portraits) in Colorado’s State Capitol. I immediately thought of the official 1954 portrait of Winston Churchill by Graham Sutherland, at that time arguably Britain’s best-known modern painter.
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1 month ago | 
infobae.com | Sebastian Smee
En 1943, Pablo Picasso recibió una carta desesperada de una artista llamada Jeanne Kosnick-Kloss. “Es demasiado tarde”, escribió. “Acabo de ser informada de que Otto ha sido enviado al norte. Por favor, haz algo por él. Te lo ruego. Dime qué hacer antes de morir de tristeza”. Kosnick-Kloss era la pareja de vida del amigo de Picasso Otto Freundlich. Los dos hombres habían vivido como vecinos en Montmartre, en el laberinto de alojamientos improvisados para artistas apodado el Bateau Lavoir.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Sebastian Smee
NEW YORK — To the extent that he was patronized, overlooked, thwarted and minimized until just before the end of his life, only to be feted with museum retrospectives now that he is dead, you could argue that Jack Whitten was an exemplary 20th-century artist. But that thought is too depressing. Whitten (1939-2018) did receive recognition during his lifetime, including a traveling retrospective in 2014 and a National Medal of Arts awarded by President Barack Obama in 2016.
