Figurative painter/demigod John Currin sat down with president and CEO of the J. Paul Getty Trust James Cuno in Los Angeles yesterday (9/14) to talk about how traditional portraiture has influenced ...

If A-list actress Jennifer Lawrence looks particularly ethereal on the cover of the September issue of Vogue, it’s because the image isn’t a photograph; it’s a painting by artist John Currin depicting ...

John Currin's "My Life as a Man" at the Dallas Contemporary is the artist's first museum show in 15 years. It's also a layered, self-flagellating and perhaps ultimately celebratory look at masculinity ...

Artist John Currin’s painting of actress Jennifer Lawrence for Vogue’s September 2017/125th Anniversary issue. @voguemagazine/Instagram The venerable style bible has tapped painter John Currin to ...

Around 1998, John Currin began his rise to the top of every collector’s wish list and commenced his descent into slick, fussy, quasi–Northern Renaissance academicism. Before this, Currin’s work had ...

Compared to some of the larger-than-life personalities who’ve had openings at Gagosian Beverly Hills during Oscar week — Julian Schnabel, Urs Fischer, Richard Prince — John Currin is relatively ...

Los Angeles certainly knows how to throw a party. But never is it more obvious than in the week leading up to the Academy Awards, when its party-throwing prowess is on full display. There are soirées ...

John Currin is so famous, so rich, so talented, it is a challenge to even want to write about his paintings. Shouldn't the effort go to those who are less fortunate? Alas, his latest work on view at ...

If you like creepy and sexy, John Currin’s paintings are for you. He pictures voluptuous but strangely proportioned women singly in erotic poses or making love with one or two other women. “Big Hands” ...

Around 1998, John Currin began his rise to the top of every collector`s wish list and commenced his descent into slick, fussy, quasi-Northern Renaissance academicism. Before this, Currin`s work had ...

JOHN CURRIN MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, CHICAGO What is "normal" love? Mom and dad`s? Teen sweethearts? God? Your identification with certain characters from the soaps? From Art History 101? Is it the ...