helen frankenthaler

7 min read 2022-02-21 17:39:21

Helen Frankenthaler: Radical Beauty, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Feb 2022

Founded in 1811 Cafe in the rain It has been a long time since I visited Dulwich Picture Gallery, even though it is on my doorstep. I picked an

1 min read 2021-08-02 23:24:35

Helen Frankenthaler : Cape Orange, 1964 (detail) When I visited the Helen Frankenthaler exhibition, Imagining Landscapes, at the Gagosian Grosvenor

3 min read 2021-04-09 19:00:20

Dear Artist, In his 1946 essay “Why I Write,” English novelist George Orwell identified four reasons: political purpose, historical impulse,

4 min read 2021-03-24 03:27:03

Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York has two tough acts to follow. Not only must art historian Alexander Nemerov successfully evoke

15 min read 2021-01-10 17:00:00

Strange Papers: A Collection of the World’s Rarest Handmade Papers (1987) Strange Papers (1987)Fred SiegenthalerWooden, felt-lined briefcase,

13 min read 2020-10-30 08:35:50

SOMETIMES, IN THE UNDERSTANDABLE QUEST FOR EXCELLENCE AND EVEN PERFECTION in the arts, performers and artists can lose sight of something that should

3 min read 2020-10-13 18:00:34

5 min read 2020-09-08 00:49:13

Artist Robert Rauschenberg in his studio This Labor Day we celebrate artists as workers, from the space the work is created, contemplated, and

4 min read 2020-01-18 04:40:58

Part of our blog series Why Isn’t This Landmarked?, where we look at buildings in our area we’re fighting to protect that are worthy of landmark

5 min read 2019-10-11 18:52:11

[See image gallery at dolcemag.com] Pearl Litwin is as gracious as she is charming, welcoming the Dolce team into her lovely home on a rainy summer

1 min read 2015-07-09 23:31:16

The simple life of the starving artist is much more than a Romantic literary and painterly trope – for many artists, measly living is reality.