LeRoy Neiman’s sketches pack a punch—quite literally. The late US artist—known for his kitsch expressionistic paintings of bruised boxers dodging jabs or throwing hooks—spent hours on the set of the Rocky films starring Sylvester Stallone, sketching the stars and the scenes from this popular cinematic tale of…
“Right now the ground is moving, and we don’t have the answers,” reflects the artist Mark Bradford in a Zoom recording captured as part of the Smithsonian Archives of American Art’s new Pandemic Project—a collection of 85 interviews with artists and arts workers about their…
Filipino artist David Medalla, who once described himself as a “poet who celebrates physics”, has died at the age of 82. Medalla’s partner and collaborator, Adam Nankervis, confirmed his death in a Facebook post, saying that many artists were “inspired by his genius as an…