He has survived loss, breakdown and schooling by ‘scary nuns’, but the anguish is still there in his art. As his new show thrills Paris, the US-based, Irish-born artist talks about the pain that drive ...

Hyperallergic Members are invited to join us on November 5, 2025, for a virtual conversation between two leading voices in contemporary art. Poet, critic, and curator John Yau will sit down with ...

VENICE — The two most arresting exhibitions I saw among the Venice Biennale’s collateral displays were Sean Scully’s Human and Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society Has the Capacity to ...

Fort Worth hosts two exhibitions spotlighting the “grid” as a bearer of structural order in painting and the city. The shows feature work from the ’80s–the 1880s and the 1980s, that is. And no two ...

Catalog of an exhibition organized by the Patronato de la Alhambra y Generalife, Consejería de Cultura, and held at the Alhambra, Granada, Spain, [Mar. 30-June 10 and July 17-Sept. 23, 2012]. Scully : ...

Sean Scully is an American-Irish artist known for his abstract paintings composed of brushy layers of alternating colored squares or stripes. Though his non-representational works appear to have no ...