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Drawing Across Five Centuries
Otto Dix, “Old Woman” (c. 1923), Art Institute of Chicago, gift of Dorothy Braude Edinburg to the Harry B. and Bessie K. Braude Memorial Collection (© 2014 Artists Rights Society [ARS], New York / VG...
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Study Suggests Children’s Drawings Reveal How Smart They Are
Children’s drawing from Twins Early Development Study, King’s College London (all images courtesy King’s College London) Think your four-year-old might be an artistic prodigy? While early drawing...
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Artists Redraw Their Own Books
Shirin Neshat, “Untitled” (published in 2013, modified 2014) (all photos by author for Hyperallergic) Some unique artist books are currently on view at Christie’s in New York. Artists were given a book...
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The Dystopian Possibilities of a Drawing Machine
Saurabh Datta’s Teacher (all images courtesy Saurabh Datta) For all those who could never quite manage a straight line in Drawing 101, Saurabh Datta may have an answer. For his thesis at Copenhagen’s...
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Century-Old School Chalkboard Drawings Offer a History Lesson
1917 chalkboard drawings of pilgrims discovered at Emerson High School, Oklahoma City (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) OKLAHOMA CITY — Century-old chalkboard drawings were revealed earlier...
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Drawing the Vast and Invisible Dark Matter of Our Universe
Time lapse of the installation of “Representation of Dark Matter” at the Drawing Center (GIF by the author, images courtesy Drawing Center) The majority of our universe is energy and matter that we...
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Drawing on Humanity’s Animal Nature
Karel Appel, “Untitled” (1949) (all images courtesy the Karel Appel Foundation / Adagp Paris, 2015; all photos by Tom Haartsen Ouderkerk) PARIS — Karel Appel would start drawing by shimmering bright...
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Oklahoma City School Discovers More 1917 Chalkboards Hidden in Its Walls
Calendar and flowers in the recently discovery 1917 chalkboard drawings in Oklahoma City (courtesy Oklahoma City Public Schools) Chalkboard drawings from nearly a century ago were uncovered in the...
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Quiet Drawings from a Life Lost in Mental Institutions
James Edward Deeds Jr., “Ectlectrc Pencil” (courtesy Princeton Architectural Press) In one of the drawings discovered in a well-worn album, fished out of the trash in 1970 by a teenager in Springfield,...
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Drive a Hand-Drawn Tram for Cats in This Illustrated Game
Screenshot from Short Trip (courtesy Alexander Perrin) Short Trip is an interactive illustration in which you drive a tram for cats as it rumbles up and down the hand-drawn mountains. It’s a peaceful...
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Treasures of the Master Drawings Fair, from a Surprising Portrait to a...
Théodore Géricault, “Study of a Lion at Rest” (ca. 1820) at Stephen Ongpin Fine Art (image courtesy Stephen Ongpin Fine Art) A few days ago I made my return visit to this year’s iteration of the annual...
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Andy, Andy Everywhere
Andy Warhol, “Feet with Campbell’s Soup Can,” (c. 1961) (courtesy of Paul Kasmin, collection of Paul Kasmin) Andy Warhol left much more than his iconic paintings and films behind when he died; he was...
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Drawing as Refuge
Pete Schulte, “Untitled” (2019), graphite, pigment, and ink on paper, 11 x 11 inches (all images courtesy McKenzie Fine Art) Most of the drawings that fill Properties of Dust and Smoke, pt. 2, a...
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A Dürer Retrospective Celebrates His Remarkable Drawings
Albrecht Dürer, “Young Hare” (1502), watercolor, body color, heightened with opaque white (© the ALBERTINA Museum, Vienna) VIENNA — When one thinks of the Renaissance it is arguably the big Italian...
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David Hockney’s Life in Drawing
David Hockney “Self Portrait” (1954), collage on newsprint, 16 1⁄2 x 11 3⁄4 inches (© David Hockney, photo by Richard Schmidt; Bradford Museums & Galleries, Bradford, UK, all images courtesy...
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Botticelli’s Perfect Beauty
Sandro Botticelli, “Paradiso VI” (1480-1495), 32.5 x 47.6 cm; Berlin Kupferstichkabinett (Public Domain image via commons.wikimedia.org) AUTHOR’S NOTE: The format of this essay, and others that will...
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Let Us Now Praise Humble Artists
Richard Van Buren, “Untitled” (2020), ink on paper, 11×14 inches (all images courtesy the artist and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York) What happens when art fabricators and studio assistants are...
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What Do Artists Need to Make Their Work?
Steve DiBenedetto, “Issues” (2020), oil on linen, 20 x 16 inches (all images courtesy the artist) The first artist I ever met was John Way (1921–2012) in 1957. He and his wife and son had immigrated to...
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When Philosophy and Art Intersect
Maria Bussmann, “Untitled” (2020), pencil on paper, 8.25 x 11 inches (all images courtesy the artist) We are looking at a close-up drawing of trees. One is cut down, with an axe marked with Kant’s name...
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The Unapologetically Gay, Erotic Drawings of Soufiane Ababri
Soufiane Ababri, Bedwork (2019-2020), color pencils on paper, 24 x 32 cm (all images courtesy the artist) Soufiane Ababri is a Moroccan artist. It is important to stress this point of origin, firstly...
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Shellyne Rodriguez’s Drawings Expand the Definition of “Essential Workers”
Shellyne Rodriguez, “Najieb Sits by the Door ( After Grace Campbell)” (2020), oil on linen, 30 x 40 inches When the coronavirus pandemic hit New York, artist Shellyne Rodriguez was emerging from a very...
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This Courtroom Artist Has Sketched Some of the Most High-profile Cases of the...
Artist Jane Rosenberg’s sketch of Steve Bannon’s court appearance (all images courtesy the artist) In August, a courtroom sketch of Steve Bannon, President Trump’s former chief strategist, went viral...
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The Profound and Alluring Mystique of Luchita Hurtado
Installation view of Luchita Hurtado. Together Forever., Hauser & Wirth New York, 2020 (© Luchita Hurtado; image courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth; photo by Thomas Barratt) When Luchita...
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Andy Warhol’s Defiant Hopes for Queer Art
This essay is excerpted from Andy Warhol: Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962 published by TASCHEN. Andy Warhol. Love, Sex, and Desire. Drawings 1950–1962 by Michael Dayton Hermann, Drew Zeiba,...
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Translating Deaf Culture, Christine Sun Kim Underlines the Difficulty of...
LOS ANGELES — You know that split-second lag when translating between two languages (however you define them), when meaning starts to slide into a string of unintelligible symbols? That’s the space...
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Devendra Banhart Exchanges Breath and Rhythm for Pencil and Ink
LOS ANGELES — The Grief I Have Caused You, currently on display at Nicodim Gallery, is artist and musician Devendra Banhart’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. “The ‘you’ in the title is you,”...
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Innovative Curatorial Projects in Prints and Drawings
From Betye Saar’s travel journals to early paper silhouettes, projects and exhibitions promise to be fascinating.
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Facing Catastrophe With Calm
Joshua Marsh has fashioned a world where a sweet, wise humor in the face of mortality and inescapable change prevails.
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Drawing the Intricate Environment of an Indigenous Venezuelan Community
Despite his work’s apparent abstraction, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwe insists that “I don’t invent anything, everything I do is my jungle and what is there.”
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Athena LaTocha Digs Deep into Brooklyn’s Past
The artist’s wall-size drawing evokes a geologic mood within a neighborhood that has changed in recent decades.
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Mauricio Lasansky’s “Nazi Drawings” Confront the Unthinkable Evil
Lasansky’s series drew massive crowds when it toured major museums between 1967 and 1970.
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How Painter-Architects Brought Built Spaces to Life
Architectural drawings were limited to mostly monochrome in Europe until color appeared in the 17th century.
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Norman Rockwell’s Exceptional Drawings, Revealed for the First Time
Extensively illustrated, Norman Rockwell: Drawings, 1911–1976 is the first book dedicated to the artist’s prolific but largely private drawing practice.
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Doses of Relief in Ibrahim El-Salahi’s Drawings of Pain
His “Pain Relief Drawings” demonstrate how art serves as a way for the artist to cope with strife.
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My Comics Collaboration With DALL-E
I wondered: Could the AI image generator and I develop a shared, unique “voice” in our creative output?
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Chicago’s Drawing Biennial Has Something for Everyone
Each artist has one to three examples, in such a broad range of styles that if you can’t find something of interest here, that’s probably on you.
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Inuit Culture Comes to Life in Shuvinai Ashoona’s Drawings
In a new show in New York City, Ashoona’s memory-based compositions infuse truth coupled with whimsy surrounding life in the Arctic.
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Jim Nutt’s Art Deserves a Closer Look
By choosing the unforgiving surface of toothed paper and making irrevocable marks, Nutt enters a territory few American artists have dared to go.
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The Artwork That Inverted My Mental Map
“América invertida” by Uruguayan-Spanish artist Joaquín Torres García was always meant to be a mission statement.
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Abel Alejandre’s Chicano Cosmologies
A narrative unfolds in Alejandre’s recent paintings whereby the Chicano moon landing led to the creation of “Xicanoland.”
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50 Years Ago, She Broke Illustration’s Glass Ceiling
An exhibition of Barbara Nessim’s drawings contextualizes the artist’s graphic portraiture of women against the backdrop of shifting gender roles and equity in the US.
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Deb Sokolow’s Wackadoodle World of Design
Sokolow’s overarching concern in her current exhibition, Visualizing is with the coercive potential of built environments.
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Leon Kossoff’s Battles
Art can be, and often is, a species of combat, a fight to the death.
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Tracing the Hand of Botticelli
Botticelli’s drawings bring us tantalizingly close to the artist, a man as clouded by intimations of darkness, and seeking some salve of beauty, as we are today.
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Stéphane Mandelbaum’s Drawings of Human Depravity
The artist-poet’s drawings tell the story of someone entangled with his own demons and his work to overcome them.
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The Simpsons Make Their Mark in Inuit Art
Nunavut artist Pitsiulaq Qimirpik juxtaposes different spiritual traditions with pop culture symbols in his drawings and soapstone sculptures.
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The Slow Joy of James Siena’s Intricate Compositions
The deepest pleasure of Siena’s drawings was giving up the search for what generated them and getting lost in the intricacies of the composition.
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The Children’s Book Author Who Was Also an Artist
Leo Lionni’s wide-ranging practice was kaleidoscopic and rooted in a strong sense of justice.
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A Galician Artist’s Return Home
Vicente Blanco’s quietly complex drawings depict disorienting, spellbinding scenes in which things are rarely what they initially seem.
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The Double Life of Aji V.N.’s Art
Aji’s bifurcated practice reflects his experience of living and working in two different worlds, India and the Netherlands.
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