Total of 89 essays listed
2026
52 Essays- Nov 04 Canan Tolon’s Sculptures, the Customs Sledgehammer, and the Penalty for the Incomprehensible
- Oct 31 Exhibition Press Releases and Me (2): What Happened at Pera Museum?
- Oct 26 On Being Late
- Oct 24 Museum, Exhibition Hall, or Amusement Park?
- Oct 18 Remembering Süleyman Saim Tekcan
- Oct 15 Between Looking at the East and Constructing the East: Osman Hamdi at the Met
- Oct 15 Exhibition Press Releases and Me: A Review on Frank Bowling, Francis Bacon, and Victor Willing
- Oct 03 Refusing Algorithmic Perfection: The Search for "Visible Humanity" on Canvas
- Sep 28 On Consensusless Communication
- Sep 26 Where the Wardrobe Outprices the Home: Notes on Contemporary Istanbul 21
- Sep 19 Raqib Shaw, "Night Sonnets": Miniature Tradition at Midnight
- Sep 16 The Bayeux Tapestry in London: The Long Memory of Narrative Figurality
- Sep 15 Lucas Museum of Narrative Art Opens: When Illustration Enters the Museum
- Sep 12 Maurizio Cattelan, "NIGHT": The Hyperrealist Figure and the Limits of Irony
- Sep 10 Mustafa Horasan (1965–2026): An Interrupted Dialogue of the Body
- Sep 09 Faces Vanished from Museums: The 2026 Renoir Thefts
- Sep 09 Is Measuring a Face Equivalent to Understanding a Human Being?
- Sep 06 Image After the Physical Trace: On "Ontological Disclosure"
- Sep 04 Beeple, MMoCA, and Feeding a Museum Collection to the Machine
- Aug 28 Yayoi Kusama (1929–2026): The Body of Repetition
- Aug 26 Sliman Mansour (1947–2026): The Man Carrying a City on His Back
- Aug 26 Memory in Figurative Painting: What Does a Portrait Hold?
- Aug 18 What Is Post-Digital Art? Thinking Canvas and Code Together
- Aug 17 Looking at Figurative Painting for the Collector: From Surface to Context
- Aug 05 The Viewer in Interactive Art: Collective Portraiture Through Person A
- Jul 26 On Aniconism, Likeness, and Representation in Art
- Jul 14 Photography and Memory: What Lies Inside and Outside the Archive
- Jul 13 Chua Mia Tee (1931–2026): Quiet Portraits of Social Realism
- Jul 09 Natural Pigments in Painting and the Meaning of Material
- Jun 26 Where Does Artistic Agency Begin in AI Art?
- Jun 25 After Hockney: How Figurative Painting Mourns
- Jun 20 The Devon Rodriguez Debate: Figurative Labor and Attribution on Social Media
- Jun 18 One Generation, Four Painters: The Records of Fratino, McKinney, Báez, and Nishimura
- Jun 18 Curatorial Thinking and Relationships Between Artworks in an Exhibition
- Jun 08 From Phone Photo to Canvas: Young Painters and the Reduced Figure
- Jun 04 From Image to Story: Two Ways of Recounting the Human Condition
- May 27 Biometrics and the Painted Body
- May 26 Mid-Market Figurative Painting: Why Do Collectors Return to the Face?
- May 23 How the "Zombie Formalism" Label Thrust the Figure Forward
- May 18 Working Notes: Macromania, Twenty Years Later
- May 15 Hybrid Figures: The Human Body Between Siren, Sphinx, and Tree Roots
- May 12 "In Minor Keys": The Figure Speaks in Whispers at the Venice Biennale
- May 10 Archibald Prize 2026: Whose Story Does a Portrait Tell?
- May 06 On Installation and the Dinner Table
- May 05 A Biennale Whose Jury Resigned: Venice 2026 and Institutional Authority
- May 02 Georg Baselitz (1938–2026): Inverting the Figure, Keeping Painting Upright
- Apr 18 The Myth of Aniconism in Islamic Art and the Contemporary Painter
- Mar 26 How Galleries Define AI Art: Reading the Artsy 2026 Survey
- Mar 04 The Rediscovered Rembrandt and the Method of Attribution
- Feb 24 Between the Face and the Dossier: The Ethical Distance of Portraiture
- Feb 14 Riegl's Age-Value and the Unaging Digital Image
- Jan 22 The Return of the Hand Mark: Matter of Painting in the Age of Automation
2025
27 Essays- Dec 29 Being a Figurative Painter in 2025: Losses, Records, and Algorithms
- Dec 22 Portraiture Passing Through Prohibition: An Overview of 2025's Censorship Controversies
- Dec 12 Nnena Kalu and the Turner Prize: Recognition for an Artist Beyond Categories
- Dec 10 Beeple, "Regular Animals": Robot Dog Portraits of Technology Tycoons
- Nov 25 Frida Kahlo, "The Dream (The Bed)": The Meaning of a Female Artist Auction Record
- Nov 22 Klimt's Portrait of Elisabeth Lederer: A $236.4 Million Face
- Nov 14 Wifredo Lam at MoMA: Pioneer of the Hybrid Figure
- Oct 24 The Louvre Heist: Vulnerability Revealed in Broad Daylight
- Oct 21 Gerhard Richter at Fondation Louis Vuitton: From Blurred Photograph to Portrait
- Sep 28 18th Istanbul Biennial, "The Three-Legged Cat": The Body of Self-Preservation
- Sep 24 Kerry James Marshall, "The Histories": Rewriting Grand History Painting
- Aug 24 Fragmented Memory and the Historiography of Turkish Art
- Aug 16 The Smithsonian Inquiry: Who Writes Historical Narrative in the Museum?
- Jul 28 Amy Sherald Withdraws from the Smithsonian: A Portrait's Right to Remain on the Wall
- Jul 18 Peter Doig Awarded the Praemium Imperiale: Painting Where the Figure Stands Like a Dream
- Jun 20 IDAF'25 and PersonA: Five Days of Entangled Faces at AKM
- Jun 03 Sebastião Salgado (1944–2025): The Black-and-White Witness of the Human Figure
- May 30 Koyo Kouoh (1967–2025): A Biennale Left Without Its Curator
- Apr 28 "Sargent and Paris": Madame X and the Cost of a Portrait
- Apr 18 "David Hockney 25": The Currency of an Eighty-Seven-Year-Old Painter
- Apr 06 Everyone Became Ghibli: How a Style Became a Filter
- Mar 12 Christie's "Augmented Intelligence": Artificial Intelligence in the Auction Room
- Mar 05 Jack Vettriano (1951–2025): Scorned by Critics, Beloved by the Public
- Feb 14 Walter Robinson (1950–2025): The Critic's Pen, the Painter's Brush
- Feb 02 A Room of Her Own for the Mona Lisa: Protecting a Portrait from the Crowd
- Jan 24 Jo Baer (1929–2025): The Painter Who Turned from Minimalism Back to the Figure
- Jan 18 Studios Burned in Altadena: What the Loss of a Painting Takes with It
2024
10 Essays- Nov 23 Cattelan's Banana and the Absence of the Figure: A 6.2 Million Dollar Certificate
- Nov 13 Frank Auerbach (1931–2024): A Face Erased Every Morning
- Nov 09 Ai-Da and Alan Turing: Whose Portrait Is a Robot's Painting?
- Sep 05 Mehmet Güleryüz (1938–2024): The Painter Who Pushed the Figure
- Jul 29 A Banquet at the Olympic Opening: Which Painting Did We See?
- May 18 A King Drowned in Red: Jonathan Yeo's Portrait of King Charles III
- May 02 Venice 2024, The "Portraits" Room: Other Faces of Modernism
- Apr 26 "Fräulein Lieser": Klimt Lost for a Century and an Unnamed Sitter
- Apr 14 Faith Ringgold (1930–2024): Stories Stitched into Quilts
- Feb 18 The Laughing Cavalier Sets Out: The Frans Hals Tour and the Difficulty of the Smiling Portrait