The Easel

10th February 2026

German Expressionist Gabriele Münter Finally Gets Her Moment in the Spotlight

Katie White | artnet news | 4th November 2025

Before the drama of her painting career, Münter tried photography while visiting the American south. Returning to her native Munich she began painting and was caught up in the tumult of modernism sweeping Europe. She and Kandinsky founded the legendary expressionist “Blue Rider” group. Her vibrant colors and simplified forms exemplified their belief in colour as a language of emotion. Once a leading inter-war artist, Münter has since been relegated to merely Kandinsky’s lover.

3rd February 2026

William Eggleston: The Last Dyes at David Zwirner

J Scott Orr | Whitehot Magazine | 17th January 2026

Eggleston caused a furore when his first show at New York’s MoMA featured colour photography. The rich colours he used commonly appeared in advertising, causing critics to call his work garish and an affront to fine art photography. At issue was a Kodak dye process (long since discontinued) that created colours so intense that images “acquired dimension”. Says one artist, Eggleston’s work was “one of the most perfect combinations of medium and subject in the entire history of art.”

Celebrated Gallerist Marian Goodman Has Died at 97

Erik Morse | Vogue | 26th January 2026

Some commercial gallerists are acclaimed for their financial acumen, but few can claim to have changed tastes. Goodman was one of the latter. She opened her New York gallery in 1977 with the aim of bringing avant garde European artists to the US. This strategy worked and broadened the gaze of the US market. Underestimated by some male collectors, one competitor was more perceptive: “She defined the model of the contemporary gallery as having the same standards as a great museum.”

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