Painting Now

On the occasion of the artist's solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, Sarah E. James considers the artist's idiosyncratic abstractions

With painting parties becoming the latest fad in New York, Tavia Nyong’o contemplates the role of the critic through booze and artmaking

The artist speaks on his latest series of small, abstract tableaux, reflecting on the history of landscape painting and why uncertainty can create a sense purpose

Our critics drum up an international list of their favourite promising artists

Latifa Echakhch, Michael Krebber, Xie Nanxing, Tobias Pils and Shahzia Sikander share the books they frequently return to for inspiration

As society withdrew behind screens Cal Revely-Calder reflects on how the visage has become a focal point in painting during the COVID-19 crisis

From Cynthia Daignault’s new body of work at Kasmin Gallery, New York, to Monika Baer’s first Swiss institutional show in 30 years at Kunsthalle Bern, these are must-see painting shows this season

The artist’s sleek tableaux present ghoulish, lithesome male figures as both objects of desire and graven images of death

In celebration of Thompson's current retrospective, 'This House Is Mine', at the Colby Museum of Art, Maine, two artists and a writer reflect on the short but prolific career of the legendary Black painter 

The two London-based artists on why figurative painting speaks to our ‘shared humanity’ and how the personal is always political