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A richly extensive retrospective, “On Conformity” comprises 175 items: paintings, prints, photographs, posters, vintage ...
Leon Golub once related a story to a mutual friend. A Chicago artist famous for large canvases depicting crimson torture rooms in Central America, Golub had been asked what it meant to him to be a ...
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 ...
Leon Golub: Powerplay — the Political Portraits by Jon Bird (Reaktion Books £15) In the mid-’70s Leon Golub painted about 100 portraits of well-known politicians of all hues — taken from news ...
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Leon Golub was no tastemaker—unlike Rashid Johnson, who sort of is. Both came to New York out of Chicago, but disparate generations aside—Golub died at 82 in 2004 and Johnson is 46—it ...
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 ...
Leon Golub and his wife Nancy Spero saw that their proclivity for portraying people, which made them pariahs in the US, wouldn’t alarm the French.
The debut exhibitions at Hall Art Foundation, its first since the pandemic, is a blockbuster. Two lifelong painters, Leon Golub and Lois Dodd, are featured in the multiple buildings that compose the ...
The artist, Leon Golub (1922-2004), derived its subject from a newspaper photograph of the arrest of the Northern Irish politician John Hume by a British soldier in 1971, during the Troubles.