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Salman Toor's Emerald Green — Art21

Salman Toor works on a new figurative painting, "Museum Boys" (2021), to be presented alongside canvases by art historical heroes such as Jo

How does a painter put freedom and vulnerability on the same canvas?

In a light-filled Bushwick studio, painter Salman Toor calls his father to let him know that “one of the best things that’s ever going to happen, ever” is on the horizon. Toor is at work on a new figurative painting, Museum Boys (2021), to be presented alongside canvases by Johannes Vermeer at Frick Madison in New York City. The painting is the latest in the artist’s alternately tender and comic exploration of his own highly cultured queer community, imagining moments of quiet intimacy as well as scenes of public violence and repression.

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An Open Horizon (or) the Stillness of a Wound, Firelei Báez — Art21

Working in her Bronx studio, artist Firelei Báez creates a series of paintings that draw upon the rich folklore and colonial history of the

Where can beauty be subversive? Working in her Bronx studio, artist Firelei Báez creates a series of paintings that draw upon the rich folklore and colonial history of the Caribbean, where she was born and raised. Exquisitely detailed and vibrantly colored, Báez’s paintings of dramatically shapeshifting figures assert the power of the female form and challenge fundamental ideas around beauty and agency

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Turner Prize winning artist Lubaina Himid shows us her sketches and talks about how important sketching is to her wider work.

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James Kalm is out pedaling around town in freezing weather, but he’s still keeping his eyes open for novel and innovative approaches to painting. In this program viewers can tag along and experience video tours of three exhibitions that mine a wide range of painterly potential. Cristina de Miguel’s New Paintings at Fredericks & Freiser is a chanced to see how the legacy of Neo-Expression has adapted and been influenced by the current trends of Street Art, abject collage, and Post Ab-Ex painting. Her gritty scenes of figures echo visual icons of folk tails and carry a humorous cartoon-like innocence.

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Painted in 1901, Summer Night at Åsgårdstrand reveals a side of Edvard Munch far removed from the anguish of The Scream. Beneath a lavender sky, figures gather in quiet communion along a village road washed in Nordic light. The brushwork pulses with life — vivid pinks, golden hues, and trembling contours that render the landscape itself as a living organism. This was Munch’s moment of equilibrium: the rare, luminous interlude when solitude and serenity replaced turmoil.

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Artist Hurvin Anderson shares the inspiration and ideas behind his paintings, and how he uses photography within his work.

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“The studio is the sponge and the outside world is the water … The sponge is dipped into reality and then squeezed out.” Daniel Richter, one of the most important painters of his generation, talks about the transformative power of painting. “The studio is like a teenage room; you close the door from the inside and your mother isn’t allowed to come in. You don’t necessarily do anything forbidden or taboo, but it’s something you don’t want others to see,” says Richter jokingly of the work that goes on in the artist’s engine room. Multi-layered and crammed with historic and cultural references, his large-scale paintings come to life in the studio. “It’s like the brain,” he explains. “It inherits history and has different layers; language, music, memories, moods. It’s a place where you can analyse very precisely but you can also just drift"

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“For me, painting is one of the few activities where one can experience multiple times simultaneously. So, there is a feeling that the surface of the painting can hold these different times: The present as it's being made; a past that I may not be so conscious of; and a future that I don't have actually to think about, but that is still there.”

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Legendary painter Peter Doig and Serpentine Artistic Director Hans Ulrich Obrist give an exclusive tour of House of Music. Doig takes us home—to the hills of Trinidad and the "cloud forests" that inspire his intimate new works. From the hand-painted reggae signs of Port of Spain to the haunting influence of Caravaggio, Doig reveals the stories behind his most iconic motifs—the lions, the prisons, and the "leakage" of sound through city walls. In this deep-dive walkthrough with Peter Doig, 🗺️ Explore: • The Lion of Judah: Its origins in Trinidadian street art and its role as a symbol of resistance. • Architecture of Control: How the Port of Spain zoo enclosure mirrors the city's prison. • Studio Film Club: The legacy of his makeshift Trinidadian cinema and how it transformed his view of the gallery. • The Poet & The Painter: The influence of Nobel laureate Derek Walcott and the "scrawny Salvation Army Band." • The Final Hour: The frantic "last-minute" process of finishing a painting just days before an opening.

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simply the intelligent and creative combining of the many tools we use as painters to tell our story. Tools such as line, shape, color, value, edges, S-Curve, Dynamic Symmetry, mass, pattern, unity, etc.

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Feeling drained? Here's how to rediscover your childlike wonder

Simple strategies for infusing more playfulness, awe and delight into your life.

Recent research shows that experiencing awe and wonder can positively affect  our mental and physical health, ultimately benefiting our lives. With the right perspective, and a little bit of effort, we can teach ourselves to generate childlike wonder in all sorts of places.

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Rose Wylie review – childlike bursts of freedom and joy

With her colourful dollops and scrawled captions, the late-blooming painter channels the liberation of childhood to point a way forward for

This is how Rose Wylie paints the sun. She does a big yellow circle. Then she adds straight yellow lines around it. Underneath she does a couple of palm trees that are brown sticks with dollops of green on top. On the sea, she adds an outline of a ship with black smoke puffing out of it.

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Jennifer Packer Confronts Grief Through Paintings That Cut Deep

The painter mines an iconographical language of grief through delicate, translucent paintings imbued with a sense of intimacy and intensity.

Her tender portraits of friends veered between inchoate mark making and stunning specificity; even if their faces were blurred and scumbled, even if they melted into their monochrome surrounds, they were represented with an exactitude that allowed them to be fully and lovingly rendered. 

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Ella Walker introduces her forthcoming exhibition at Huxley-Parlour (2020) “I’m really interested in weaving in history as a way of bringing the characters into different dialogues”

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