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“True” Trompe L’Oeil
“Artnica” by Jacques Poirier, 1997 (Photo: Collection of Ian M. Cumming) All figurative art contains an element of trompe l’oeil, while the essence of the “true” trompe l’oeil is that it sets out to d… more →
Slow Painting
“True” Trompe L’Oeil
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Deborah Barlow wrote 1 week ago: “Artnica” by Jacques Poirier, 1997 (Photo: Collection of Ian M. Cumming) All figurative art contains … more →
Saarinen Reconsidered
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Deborah Barlow wrote 2 weeks ago: The design for a rink on the Yale University campus. (Photo: Librado Romero/The New York Times) The … more →
Curator's Art
Deborah Barlow wrote 3 weeks ago: “Pink Tons” by Roni Horn (Photo: Hauser & Wirth Hermann Feldhaus/Hauser & Wirth) From a revi … more →
Ofili, at the Frieze Art Fair
Deborah Barlow wrote 4 weeks ago: ‘Going through a phase of experiment and transition’ … Chris Ofili. Photograph: Ea … more →
Sara Ramo as Magician
Deborah Barlow wrote 1 month ago: Celestial sorcery … Sara Ramo’s Invasion of Everything That Was Restrained (2005). Photo … more →
David Hockney, Updated
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Deborah Barlow wrote 1 month ago: David Hockney with Bigger Trees Near Warter. Photograph: David Levene David Hockney is no fool. He u … more →
Hockney, in New York
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Deborah Barlow wrote 1 month ago: Photo: Jean-Pierre Gonçalves de Lima In 2005 Mr. Hockney — temporarily, he says — left Hollywood, wh … more →
Turner Prize Season
Deborah Barlow wrote 1 month ago: Bulbous Marauder, by Enrico David (Photograph: Courtesy Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin) We’re … more →
Kandinsky at the Guggenheim
Deborah Barlow wrote 2 months ago: Surrealist biomorphism: “Capricious Forms” (1937), a work from Kandinsky’s Paris period, is part of … more →
O'Keefe at the Whitney
Deborah Barlow wrote 2 months ago: “Red and Orange Streak” (1919) is part of Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction at the Whi … more →
Echigo-Tsumari Festival
Deborah Barlow wrote 4 months ago: Creative nature … mirror house by Harumi Yukutake at Japan’s Echigo-Tsumari outdoor art … more →
Picasso's Politics
Deborah Barlow wrote 4 months ago: Tate Liverpool exhibition to explode myth that Picasso was ‘ a playboy extrovert’. Photo … more →
Song Dong at MOMA
Deborah Barlow wrote 4 months ago: In an atrium at MoMA, the Chinese artist Song Dong has arrayed all the contents of his mother’s form … more →
Per Kirkeby at the Tate
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Deborah Barlow wrote 5 months ago: Flight into Egypt 1996 . Photograph: Private Collection/Tate It is rare for any major museum to play … more →
Bacon at the Met: Take 2
Deborah Barlow wrote 6 months ago: Embarrassed by our former selves, we often recoil from the art we loved as adolescents. Artists we a … more →
Bacon at the Met: Take 1
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Deborah Barlow wrote 6 months ago: Bacon in 1951, photographed by Cecil Beaton. (Photo: Courtesy of the Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at … more →
Frank Lloyd Wright at the Guggenheim
Deborah Barlow wrote 6 months ago: The great architect Frank Lloyd Wright was hyper-sensitive to the nature of place, like this home bu … more →
Fabiola at the National Portrait Gallery
Deborah Barlow wrote 7 months ago: Part of Francis Alÿs’s installation Fabiola. The Belgian artist spent 15 years collecting these imag … more →
Disgracefully High Admission Fees?
Deborah Barlow wrote 7 months ago: “Still Life with Apples 1893-94″ is carried by installers to the wall for hanging. It is … more →
