Artforum

4 days ago | artforum.com | Maria Porges

At the beginning of this focused retrospective, Wayne Thiebaud’s portrait of his wife Betty Jean from 1965–69 depicts her seated, a book before her open to reproductions of drawings by Seurat and Manet. Betty Jean’s head-in-hand pose suggests several possible sources: Dürer’s Melencolia I, 1514; Ingres’s Louise, Princesse de Broglie, Later the Comtesse d’Haussonville, 1845; Degas’s Portrait of Edmond Duranty, 1879; or even Picasso’s Woman with a Book, 1932.

4 days ago | artforum.com | Rachel Wetzler

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4 days ago | artforum.com | Joaquin Sanchez

After defeating the caliph Muhammad al-Nasir in the battle of Navas de Tolosa in 1212, the Castilian king, Alfonso VIII, donated to the monastery of Las Huelgas Reales de Burgos a curious spoil of war: a large silk tapestry with geometric and calligraphic motifs in red, yellow, green, blue, white, and black. Although this piece has traditionally been considered a banner (i.e., a flag), studies suggest it probably served as a canopy in the tent of the defeated commander.

4 days ago | artforum.com | Barry Schwabsky

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6 days ago | artforum.com | Donasia Tillery

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