What explains the length and depth of your friendship? Melvin Edwards: Well, you know, I’m a person who takes things lightly. It was easy to be friends with them, that’s all. Whenever we got together, we enjoyed each other and talked to each other. You know, we argued, we argued, we had differences of opinion. …
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“I’ve always been interested in the beginnings of other artists’ work,” Bridget Riley says. “How they start is pretty important.” The abstract painter, who turned 91 in April, has returned to his own beginnings for an exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art in Conn, New Haven. It is celebrated as a national treasure …
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Louise Fishman, a widely exhibited artist who infused her Abstract Expressionist paintings and other works with elements of feminism, gay, and Jewish identity, died in Manhattan on July 26. He was 82 years old. His wife, Ingrid Nyeboe, said the reason was complications from ablation, a heart surgery. Miss Fishman he continually explored new themes …
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The opening ceremony of the Olympics is always a real-time visual puzzle filled with abstract images and figurative dance that says something – I think – about global ideals and national character. But you didn’t need a decoder to reveal the symbolism of the measured competition that kickstarted the Tokyo Games. A video animation darted …
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