6+ hour, 9+ min ago  (316+ words) I use my entire body when painting, so I need to align it with my mind beforehand." Welcome to the 328th installment of A View From the Easel, a series in which artists reflect on their workspace. This week, artists invent…...

8+ hour, 35+ min ago  (446+ words) Lucian Freud's paintings of "lostness," the real purpose of art awards, a new center for Native American art, and a lot of chair stuff. Are art awards meant to provide artists with recognition and material support, or to reinforce power…...

22+ hour, 37+ min ago  (373+ words) As a National Portrait Gallery exhibition proves, he was especially good at depicting people painfully adrift from themselves. LONDON " Death can be such a miserable nose-dive for any artist. Lucian Freud is deep into the 15th year of his posthumous life…...

21+ hour, 41+ min ago  (571+ words) The former Whitney curator will steer the NYC organization as it builds a permanent exhibition space in the Hudson River Valley. Laura Phipps, former associate curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, has been tapped as the new director…...

1+ day, 7+ hour ago  (321+ words) Art Basel's complicity in Qatar's persecution of queer people, the US and Israel bomb another Iranian historic palace, protest against the Venice Biennale, Beer With a Painter, and more. Nasser Mohamed, the only publicly queer Qatari citizen, strikes at the…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (508+ words) Our first impressions, Chinatown storefront art, and things to do on a glorious spring day. My god, it's beautiful out. Spring in New York really makes you work for it, but then it makes it worth your while." Also, make…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago  (363+ words) The sculpture on the National Mall comes in the wake of the release of previously withheld documents detailing abuse allegations against Trump. A new sculpture portraying President Donald Trump caressing smiling sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, echoing one of the most…...

1+ day, 20+ hour ago  (339+ words) I fled Qatar to live freely as a queer person. A country that criminalizes LGBTQ+ existence should not be celebrated as a global hub of creative freedom. Art Basel Qatar debuted in February as, in its own words, a showcase…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago  (229+ words) Read up on the hidden history of occult influences on modernism, French sign painters, the Finnish painter who bucked convention, incarcerated artists, and more. Seeing Silence: The Paintings of Helene Schjerfbeck, edited by Dita Amory | Metropolitan Museum of Art, January…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago  (1089+ words) If paint doesn't feel good coming off the brush, you pretty much have nothing," said the artist, whose canvases depict humanity in all its rollicking riot and contradiction. The way her mind works in conversation feels similar; she can freely…...