Painter Leon Golub earned his reputation as an artist of violence. Images from the 1970s through the 1990s are parlor scenes of horror, painted to show the variety of ways humans abuse their power.

Artist Leon Golub, whose unflinchingly raw paintings of human depravity shattered the cool demeanor of the art world and established him as an effective champion of figurative expression, has died.

Leon Golub was a great American artist. End of story. That’s what popped into my head the moment the elevator doors at the Met Breuer slid open to reveal “Gigantomachy II” (1966), his ...

Doesn't Leon Golub Trust His Art to Speak for Itself? One of the most interesting things about Leon Golub: Paintings, 1950-2000, an exhibition currently at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, is the ...

Leon Golub, “Gigantomachy II” (1966), acrylic on linen, 304.8 x 731.5 cm The scene at the Serpentine Galleries creates a shift in our psyche. It reminds us of a time and an anti-war movement ...

This fake Leon Golub, Welcome to It, was purchased at Christie’s by Andrew Hall from Nikolas Gascard for $30,000. Courtesy of artnet. The Legal Battle.

Rashid Johnson’s curatorial vision in “Et In Arcadia Ego” creates a vivid dialogue between Leon Golub’s forceful, politically charged paintings and the work of various artists who echo or expand on ...

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The title “Et in Arcadia Ego” comes from Golub’s 1997 painting Time’s Up, in which the archaic Latin phrase is inscribed over an upturned skull.The Latin phrase is also commonly associated ...

Rashid Johnson Is Curating a Show Around Leon Golub’s Work at Hauser & Wirth Johnson is creating a transitional space where his and Golub’s works intersect with those of artists who have ...