Mr. Jager is an arts and culture writer. He received his doctorate in…
The painter thrived due to his aspirational classicism, a hazily reconstructed, quasi-historical Hellenism strained through the sensibility of Cecil B. DeMille.
A painter of still lifes of such exquisite refinement and subtle palette that to look at them too quickly is to miss them.
The results are interesting, when they aren’t too clever by half.
Guillaume Apollinaire named the body of work devoted to delicate innovations in abstracted form, and especially color, after the legendary figure of Greek mythology, Orpheus.
Richard Serra is a challenging sculptor, but he is also one that cannot be ignored.
The artist’s knack for cheeky, subversive, and frankly ingenious conceptual projects, as well as the suffering he has endured for his activism, has catapulted him to international renown.
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