New Arrivals
Zeng Fanzhi: Every Mark Its Mask
Hatje Cantz. The work of Chinese painter Zeng Fanzhi (born 1964) reveals a great deal about his homeland's rapidly changing society. In his Mask paintings, people wearing plain white masks confront the viewer with wide eyes and grotesquely exaggerated hands. In addition to these well-known images, this publication features works..... More
Universe Is Flux: The Art of Tawara Yusaku
University of Washington Press, 2011. Recognized in Japan as a connoisseur, collector, and proprietor of a famous folk art shop in Tokyo, Tawara Yusaku returned to painting late in life and had a single show in London before his death in 2004. Universe Is Flux is the first examination of..... More
From the Margins: Lee Krasner | Norman Lewis, 1945–1952
Jewish Museum. A revealing parallel view of two key Abstract Expressionists, From the Margins brings together two New York painters whose works offer unique and compelling approaches to abstraction. Born one year apart, Lee Krasner (1908–84) and Norman Lewis (1909–79) shared similar family situations and came of age in the..... More
Frank Moore: Between Life & Death
In 1977 Frank Moore took a freighter from Montreal to Santander, Spain. He traveled through Spain, France, and Morocco,finally settling in Paris, where he obtained a residency in the Cite des Arts. Upon his return to New York, Moore began a decade-long involvement with modern dance, theater, film, and video..... More
Daniel Verbis: Misojosentusojosderramandose
The work of Spanish painter Daniel Verbis challenges pictorial language the way his title challenges the written kind: it pushes the limits, and overruns ordinary frames. Misojosentusojosderramándose, translated literally as "My Eyes Spilling Into Yours," encapsulates Verbis's desire to reach his audience, as well as his exuberance. In recent paintings..... More