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The Spotlight series includes a new or never-before-exhibited artwork paired with a commissioned piece of writing, creating focused and thoughtful conversations between the visual arts and authors, critics, poets, scholars, and beyond.

St. John鈥檚 College is pleased to announce the January opening of Nature鈥檚 Readymades, an exhibition of gongshi (scholars鈥� rocks or viewing stones) drawn from the National Bonsai & Penjing Museum in Washington.

Contributed by Sharon Butler / This year the 17 artists who get free studio space in DUMBO were selected by jurors Ellen Altfest, Phong Bui, Deborah Kass, Philip Pearlstein, and Daniel Turner from (gasp) 1700 applicants.

Ellen Alfest's paintings appear confrontational, digested, and candid in how they deal with a meditative state of mind and a hallucinatory dedication to "somethingness" that lies between things and entities.

The paintings of Ellen Altfest are ethereal in their detail. Fields of minutiae come together as pulsating images; small brushstrokes of oil paint accumulate over a series of months to single out seemingly innocuous subjects, such as a hand resting atop patterned fabric (The...

White Cube is presenting an exhibition of paintings and drawings by the New York based artist Ellen Altfest, her first in China.

When some people think of present-day artists, they think of modernized, post-internet art; they think of Banksy鈥檚 spray can street style and the many sculpture-building disciples of Jeff Koons.

Guest contributor: Jonathan Stevenson / In 鈥淪howing A Little Leg鈥� in the November issue of Harper鈥檚, novelist Dan Keane offers a clever, peripatetic

Painters often work in self-imposed solitude, some versions more extreme than others. The minimalist Agnes Martin spent long stretches of winter

"It is what it is. Or is it?" at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston is CAMH curator Dean Daderko's first show. It has Marcel Duchamp as its standard

It’s possible of course that Marcel Duchamp did not invent the readymade—after all, artists have prized random objects since cave painters

When the New York Times interviewed Ellen Altfest in 2005, it was for a story about the popularity of nude modeling sessions among young New York

For the 88th year, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named the winners of its annual fellowships. Twenty people were honored this year

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has announced the selection of its 2012 Guggenheim Fellows. The 181 winners were culled from a field

Fran莽ois Ghebaly Gallery presents Body of Evidence. The exhibition presents work by four women artists: Ellen Altfest, Marlene Dumas, Nicole Eisenman