As Amanda Fortini writes about the 95-year-old painter Alex Katz, “his concerns are essentially technical and formalist … rather than narrative or expressionist. ... Making Digital Art IRL: ...

SCHUYLKILL HAVEN – A pack of wooden clothespins, or a flower seed packet, or a bag of Allsorts licorice candy may not seem like much, but artist Bob Stickloon can turn it into a work of art.The ...

Opinion The Toxic Legacy of Zombie Formalism, Part 2: How the Art System’s Entropy Is Raising the Political Stakes for Culture. Debt Aesthetics make new political themes increasingly attractive.

The Museum of Modern Art in New York is seen as the repository of that tradition, but I think he had a huge influence on its original director, Alfred Barr, who was less of a formalist than Barnes ...

Kirwin explains that the show puts the two sets of meditations on feminist art—from 1976-77 and 2019—“in conversation with another.” While the walls are stamped with a few choice quotes ...

What was Zombie Formalism? If you’re not an avid follower of art-world trends, you may have no idea. Don’t worry: From an aesthetic standpoint, you didn’t miss much. In an economic sense ...

There, debasing and formalist art represents man as a monster deprived of feeling and thought . . . and serves the selfish interests of the bourgeoisie, catering to their decadent and perverted ...

It’s disturbing to think that instructors who came of age in the heyday of Krebber, who practiced this sort of art of formalist withdrawal and investigation, are still teaching it and other ...