art history

Painter Helen Frankenthaler gives us an art history lesson, 60 years later

Filling a 1965 Helen Frankenthaler ARTFORUM interview with links and photographs for you to explore!

Jun 27 •

I wrote an essay for The Metropolitan Museum of Art!

Sharing The Met's "From the Vaults" film series and a very special Eames film: Metropolitan Overview.

Jun 18 •

A personal dare from Marina Abramović, and other unforgettable reds of art and fashion history

How the color red defined Mark Rothko, Niki de Saint Phalle, Henri Matisse, Donald Judd, and Diana Vreeland.

Jun 12 •

A Beautiful Bilbao Birthday: turning 35 with art and arroz con leche

With Helen Frankenthaler and a 106-year-old lunch date—there isn't enough time for absorbing all of the world's beauty!

May 16 •

Paul Klee's "One eye sees, the other feels," and Arrogant Verneuil in Paris

A modernist painter inspires an interiors and design shop in Paris, his students at the Bauhaus, me, and beyond!

May 13 •

The liquescent portals of Yves Tanguy's Surrealist paintings

The runny, morphing shapes and nodes of Yves Tanguy, the art-focused women of his life, and seeing his art in Venice.

May 7 •

Three Pots of Inspiration: Friends Edition

What kind of art/architecture/design/etc. are inspiring some friends these days? Kaity Lucas, Avery Warkentin, and I share our rich, at-the-moment loves…

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Avery Warkentin

Writing about art with your friends pt. 2

A fictional short story group exercise based on a chosen work of art, featuring a painting by Giorgio de Chirico.

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The Colorful, Woodblocked World of Juliette Nichols

A love letter to Juliette Nichols's color-punctuated woodcut prints from the mid-1910s, and an introduction to the history-altering discoveries of the…

Apr 15 •

Writing about art with your friends pt. 1

A fictional exercise based on a chosen work of art: Marc Chagall's painting "The Birthday," created in 1915. Read the fictional stories of seven…

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Nolan Beck Rivera

The Museum of Drawers: famous artists collaborating in miniature

A unique, curatorial art experiment begun in 1970 by Herbert Distel. In its form, it’s a twenty-story haberdashery storage cabinet that Distel…

Apr 2 •

Calder's "Spirale" sculpture and its best friend, the Eiffel Tower

Imagining 1958 at the Palais de l'UNESCO in Paris, and I'm selling a vintage photograph of it!

Mar 17 •

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