For almost as long as artists have been painting floral still lifes, the subject has been doubted or belittled when it hasn’t been dismissed. Even the great Dutch flower paintings of the early 1600s ...
In the artist’s New York gallery debut at Chart, her carnivorous plants upend the agendas of their 19th-century inspirations. Kate Bickmore, Hypnotic Transference of Luminous Life (2024). Courtesy the ...
Rachel Ruysch, "Posy of Flowers with a Beetle on a Stone Ledge" (1741), oil on canvas; Kunstmuseum Basel (courtesy Museum of Fine Arts, Boston) BOSTON — Dainty, fussy, and prim: These are the common ...