Hyperallergic

LA Artist’s Floating Painting Studio Removed by Local Officials

Sterling Wells built a studio raft to float atop LA’s Ballona Creek, a contaminated waterway that feeds into the Pacific Ocean. (photo by Nik Massey; courtesy Night Gallery) LOS ANGELES — An artist’s ...
BroadwayWorld

The Art Institute of Chicago Presents Painting The Floating World

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. From November 4, 2018 through January 27, 2019 the Art Institute of Chicago ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Painting the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Masterpieces From the Weston Collection’ Review: Seductive Surfaces, Unsettling Subtext

Question: What society came up with reading groups, composed of courtesans in a brothel, their customers, and various rich folk who happened by, that featured “amusing poetry” and “crazy writing”? If ...
Hyperallergic

Float Past Flying Fishes and Burning Churches in a VR Bosch Painting

Still from Carlos Franklin’s VR recreation of Hieronymus Bosch’s “The Temptation of Saint Anthony” (all images courtesy the artist and Les Poissons Volants) A boat with a broken mast floats by me in ...
Artnet

Artist Sterling Wells Built a Floating Studio in Order to Paint the View From L.A.’s Ballona Creek. Then the City Demolished It

The raft studio is now featured in "Sterling Wells: A New Flood" at Night Gallery. Sterling Wells working on his raft in Ballona Creek, Los Angeles. Photo by Nik Massey, courtesy of Night Gallery, Los ...
Time Out

“Painting the Floating World: Ukiyo-e Masterpieces from the Weston Collection”

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