Like stage sets, there seem to be a million stories embedded in the works of Richard Estes, icon of photorealism Max Kutner Richard Estes, icon of photorealist painting, is the subject of a ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Known for his realism, American artist Richard Estes painted with such precision it is difficult to determine his photographs from his paintings. Now, a collection of his paintings, ...

The American artist starts by taking dozens of photos of the same thing. Then he paints it, staying as faithful to photos as he can. The... Painting Or Photograph? With Richard Estes, It's Hard To ...

Richard Estes’ photorealistic painting style is all about overcoming inertia. For years, Estes has patrolled the streets of New York with a camera, shooting randomly at various times of the day or ...

The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art presents a new exhibition of more than 80 artworks, which is both a theme park and data visualization organised around different focal points, and a self ...

Catalog of an exhibition held at the Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, May 22-September 7, 2014, and at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., October 10, 2014-February 8, 2015.

Spanning from the mid-1960s to the present, Richard Estes: Painting New York City presents works by this quintessential New York artist and enduring leader of the Photorealist movement. Providing an ...

“Richard Estes’ Realism” is the most comprehensive exhibition of Estes’ paintings ever organized. A master of contemporary realism, Estes is primarily known as a painter of the urban landscape. The ...

Whenever I return from a trip out of town, New York seems to have acquired a hallucinatory sharpness in my absence. The city contains more facets per square inch, more bricks, signs, people, and ...

At the advent of photography, the anxiety of the the painter was that their craft had been rendered instantly obsolete. Surely, one might have thought looking at an early glass plate negative, no ...