Leon Kossoff, whose expressionistic portraits and images of urban life made him one of the most important painters of postwar Britain, died July 4 in London. He was 92.
Robert Ryman, one of the most important American artists to emerge after World War II, a minimalist who achieved a startling non-minimalist variety in his paintings even though they were mostly white and usually square, died Friday at his home in Greenwich Village in Manhattan. He was 88.
NEW YORK — Jamaican visionary John Dunkley (1891-1947) is the latest artist to decimate the distinctions between self-taught and trained, outsider and insider and folk and not folk. The first large museum survey in the United States devoted to the work of this gifted autodidact is now at the American Folk Art Museum, after originating at the Pérez Art Museum Miami in 2017, with Diana Nawi, now an independent curator, heading the organizing team.
Nicola L, a French pop artist who was best known for wry feminist sculpture of female and male forms that often function as furniture, died Dec. 31 in Los Angeles. She is thought to have been in her mid-80s.
NEW YORK — When it comes to postwar art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art rarely lets you breathe easy for long. Just when it hits a good phase, it suddenly changes course and more than likely shoots itself in the foot. Things were really looking up at the Met Breuer, with its superbly installed recent exhibition of Jack Whitten’s sculpture. Then the Met suddenly pulled out of the last three years of its eight-year lease there. It cut short a project that was producing results, giving the Met’s...
Similarly, only a few museums can do justice to such a long span of creativity. Prominent among them is the Metropolitan Museum of Art, whose “‘The Tale of Genji’: A Japanese Classic Illuminated,” is glorious, as sumptuous and sprawling as the book itself, full of rare loans from Japanese institutions.
Ben Heller, an influential New York art collector and dealer best known for his early embrace of abstract expressionism and the sale of one of its masterworks to an Australian museum, which caused an international furor, died April 24 in Sharon, Connecticut. He was 93.
(Last Chance): NEW YORK — Artists are picky people. The objects they live with — furniture, artifacts, ceramics, works by other artists — are usually carefully chosen, and they look it.
The confabs play to varied tastes and pocketbooks while ranging in quality from blue-chip to less than no-chip — a measure of market, not aesthetic value.
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