Call it Modern Gothic. As cringe-worthy as my term for it is, there’s a lot of work around right now that fits the designation. Young critics are keen on it, magazines are featuring it, galleries are ...
As Halloween looms, we are surrounded by Gothic artefacts; plastic skeletons, decorative tombstones, and pumpkins are scattered across suburban lawns, and the boundary between what is real and what is ...
On the long list of artists to suffer the fatal derision of Nazi Germany was one of Germany’s greatest sculptors, Ernst Barlach. He died in 1938, shunned by his townspeople, condemned (falsely) as a ...