Kurt Cobain’s eyes are intense.
That’s one of the first things you notice as you step into the Elizabeth Peyton exhibition “Live Forever” at the New Museum. On the first two walls, paintings based on photos of the music icon stare out, and it’s hard not to make eye contact.
And eyes, in Peyton’s work, are the [...]
A wall at the entrance to the Gilbert and George exhibit reads, “Puzzling, obscure, and form-obsessed art is decadent and a cruel denial of the life of people.”
The Brooklyn Museum is the last stop for a touring retrospective of the artists that was organized by the Tate Modern in London. Gilbert and George are visual [...]