As an actor, Kate Capshaw used to play other people: a nightclub singer in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, a divorced bookseller in The Love Letter, a beleaguered bride headed out West in a covered wagon in The Quick and the Dead. Now, she paints them. Capshaw paints all sorts of people. But…
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Candida Gertler, co-founder of the Outset Contemporary Art Fund, has stepped down from the organization’s board of trustees and all voluntary roles within UK arts institutions, according to a report by The Art Newspaper. Her resignation follows an open letter signed by over 1,100 artists and art workersa and addressed to Tate leadership ahead of the…
French painter Henri Matisse first came into contact with ukiyo-e woodcut prints in the early 20th century, when various world fairs brought Japanese art to Europe. Struggling to get his own career off the ground (his first solo exhibit at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery in 1904 was far from successful), Matisse took a liking to the…
Teddy died last Sunday after a short, swift illness, probably cancer. He was eleven years old. My seminal Teddy memory: in the kitchen, during his early adulthood, I off-handedly said: “Mommy’s coming.” Teddy quivered with an anticipatory elation that consumed every particle of his being. This was my first experience of his bewildering linguistic acumen,…