Critics and curators are reframing great artists, from Gentileschi to Soutine, to fit with modern ethical narratives. But this ignores the glorious ambivalence of their creations ...

Not a single painting by Chaim Soutine hangs in the Museum of Modern Art. This is true despite his pivotal influence on major artists over the past half-century. And a show pairing his work with ...

Ivan Albright, “Self-Portrait” (1935) (Mary and Earle Ludgin Collection, © The Art Institute of Chicago) CHICAGO — Flesh, an art critic friend told me over a ...

When Amedeo Modigliani painted his fellow artist Chaïm Soutine in 1916 and again the following year, the resulting works were more or less orderly, the young man’s features carefully hemmed in by dark ...

Chaim Soutine, "Le faison au chou" (1926/27), oil on canvas at Galerie Thomas. (photo by Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic) MIAMI — Chaim Soutine (1893-1943) was somewhat of a super star to the Abstract ...