Observer

These Are the Women Who Founded Some of New York’s Greatest Art Museums

Lillie P. Bliss, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, Mary Quinn Sullivan, Louisine Havemeyer, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Hilla von Rebay, Aileen Osborn Webb and Marcia Tucker are among the women who founded ...
The Art Newspaper

“Exhibitions weren’t held, research wasn’t done,” says the curator of a new show on a forgotten generation

In her 2002 autobiography, Infinity Net, the Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama describes going to extraordinary lengths to leave Japan in the 1950s, including sewing banknotes into her clothes and shoes.
Forbes

Jenny Saville’s Figure Paintings At The Modern In Fort Worth

Jenny Saville’s mid-career retrospective at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth features one banger of a painting after another. All hits. “Jenny Saville: The Anatomy of Painting” because Saville (b.
CNN

These artists revolutionized modern art in Nigeria. They’re finally getting recognition further afield

Curved lines and block colors in shades of orange, yellow and blue create the image of an artist, framed by a border of abstract shapes. Look a little closer and you can see the artist’s beret with ...