As with many Surrealists, Varo's images evade description. They seem merely whimsical when summarized, but her technical perfection edges them toward sublimity.
A 2011 study at University College London found that when we behold a pleasing work of art, blood rushes to the head in a physiological reflex that’s akin to gazing at a loved one. What…
Curators attempt to trace how a nascent word for a queer identity influenced the following decades of visual art.
Illustrating a cornucopia of perversions, Austin Osman Spare's drawings highlight the skills that made him a celebrated artist, and the wide-ranging interests that dimmed his career.
Sentimental and mythological, Tony Fitzpatrick's multimedia collages conjure a vibrant, gritty Chicago that is no more—or perhaps never was.
An exhibition of more than one hundred works by Joseph Yoakum illuminates the pleasures and difficulties of the visionary artist's immense oeuvre.
Distinct from much of his oeuvre, Yannis Tsarouchis's panoramic oil painting of male couples still exemplifies the Greek artist's erotic and sometimes fantastical scenes.
Although Nathaniel Mary Quinn's faces look collaged, they're actually rendered with oil, paint stick, gouache, and pastel, usually against a plain colored background. He works intuitively but…
In a political moment riven by dogmatism, Vaginal Davis's work subverting categories of race and gender is freshly urgent.
Joseph Sterling died in 2010, at age seventy-four, having never received the sort of blue-chip retrospective that helped canonize Ray Metzker and Kenneth Josephson, his contemporaries and fellow…