Wednesday seems to be a good day to take a break from your work and feast your eyes on the work of artists covered in these 10+ pieces. There’s something for everyone’s taste, from classic painters to conceptual artists. Enjoy!
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- For Turner fans, you’ll like this piece on JMW Turner at 250 and why his greatest painting The Fighting Temeraire is so misunderstood.
- For Hockney fans, this 2025 showing of David Hockney’s work, promises to be good.
- Want to see all of Vermeer‘s 26 works? You can if you go to that link.
- In Canada, the work of Maud Adams continue to go up in value, with some now going for $25K. Speaking of Canadian artists, this is a fine remembrance of the Canadian conceptual artist Kelly Mark.
- More art by women. First there’s this fine essay with fantastic photos of Ruth Asawa here. Followed by more great works of art by another Monet: his stepdaughter.
- The New York Times does these wonderful interactive essays, and this one, a study of how this painting by Mondrian of a flower got the writer through winter, is as good as any of them.
- For fans of album art, you will want to see the seven LP album covers that the artist Josef Albers designed for Command Records. You can see them here.
- For fans of photography, here is a great piece on the Mean High Water project, the stark impact of water, and the photography of Jared Bramblett, here.
- For fans of filmmaking, I recommend this interview with Steven Soderburgh.
- I had never seen Haring’s “Altarpiece: The Life of Christ” before. I came across it on Google Arts and Letters. Puts me in mind of Warhol’s later religious work. It was also one of his last works of art.
- Speaking of late works of artists, here are the final works of Richard Serra.
- This essay, on what Trenton Doyle Hancock Learned From Philip Guston, is great. Hancock’s painting are joltingly good.
- Is this the end of the art market? Without Drama or Banana, Art Auctions Struggle.
- Take a moment to check out this scathing review of Robbie Williams radical honesty moco london art exhibition take that. Brutal.
- I recently discovered the work of the artist Brian Charney and I was struck by how he captured what was going on in his mind that suffered from schizophrenia through his paintings.
- Finally, it’s well worth taking the time to watch this new short film by Wim Wenders that reminds Europe of the lessons of World War II.
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