Krystian Lupa’s latest work had its premiere in Paris after an earlier attempt collapsed. The delay would have been a good time to rethink the four-and-a-half-hour show.
Carole Angier’s “Speak, Silence” is the first major biography of the renowned German writer who put people he knew into his work, infuriating many of them.
The Gloopy Glory of Frank Auerbachâs Portraits
The artistâs industrious paintings and drawings, made across four decades, are now on view at Luhring Augustine.
Frank Auerbachâs âReclining Head of Julia IIâ (2015). The artist is the last surviving member of a pathfinding generation of postwar British figurative painters.Credit.Courtesy the artist and Marlborough Fine Art, London and Luhring Augustine, New York
Jan. 21, 2021
A few weeks ago I reread âThe Emigrants,â W.G. Sebaldâs sublime 1992 requiem of four men driven, in the face of totalitarianism, from Central Europe to England and America. In its last and most moving chapter we meet the refugee Max Ferber, a painter whom the narrator watches in a dusty Manchester studio, working and reworking a series of portraits with almost obsessive repetition.