Figurative

3+ hour, 7+ min ago   (194+ words) The Japanese-American artist talks about her place as a paint dot in the universe and embracing disruption in her canvases. Hyperallergic: You grew up in Nebraska. Did you look at art, or draw as a child? Barbara Takenaga: I grew…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (955+ words) STYLING BY SINÉAD HARGREAVES WORDS BY PHOEBE CANNARD-HIGGINS “There’s something about restriction that can facilitate the creative process.” John Safran told Yvette Coppersmith he needed three months to work out before she painted him topless for her Archibald entry in…...

6+ day, 12+ hour ago   (164+ words) Step into the colourful world of Frida Kahlo for an intimate creative afternoon at Imperfect Art in Peckham, bringing together art, history and storytelling. Inspired by Kahlo’s iconic self-portraits, guests will create their own Frida-inspired mixed-media portrait using collage, pressed…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago   (91+ words) France US Art GazetteXtra The "Liberty Enlightening the World" by Frederic Auguste Bartholdi, a mini-replica of the French-designed Statue of Liberty is seen as part of an exhibition named "Auguste Bartholdi. Liberty enlightening the world" at the Orsay museum, in…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (82+ words) gallery.ca Marion Wagschal: Painting the Unspeakable For more than six decades, Marion Wagschal has returned to one enduring subject: the human figure. In her paintings, the body is never simply a physical presence: it is a carrier of memory,…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1350+ words) Creative entrepreneur Wattimah GG Wambalaba, popularly known as GG Wattimah, creates an abstract artwork during an interview at his home in Buruburu, Nairobi, on September 8, 2026. Canvases stand on easels outside a quiet building in Nairobi, catching the afternoon light. On…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (241+ words) Japanese Art and the Flow of Beauty – Birds, Landscapes, and Lotus The Hiroshima Museum of Art says, “A Japanese-style painter in Kyoto circle, and active as one of the representative pupils of Seiho Takeuchi during and after World War II....

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (55+ words) The vocabulary reflexively applied to Ana Mendieta’s work, especially her land-based body imprints, brims with a romance of primordial forces: ritual, spiritual, numinous. The Cuban American artist called it “magic,” a word that feels at odds with the logic of…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (292+ words) In addition to her role as editor for Colossal, Kate Mothes is an independent, semi-nomadic contemporary art writer, curator, and organizer based most of the time in the Upper Midwest. She ran Young Space from 2014 to 2026, is the founder and…...

2+ week, 9+ hour ago   (284+ words) When I was exhibiting at the Aichi Triennale in 2010, at the Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art in Japan, she visited my fighter-aircraft art project in a wheelchair, and we talked about my artwork and creative process. She took a long…...