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On an early May evening in Rome, Italy, just as the azaleas were beginning to open on the city’s famous Spanish steps, a red carpet was being rolled down another set of steps overlooking the Villa ...

Bridget Riley, final study for “Halcyon” [Repaint] (1971), pencil and gouache on paper, 37 3/8 × 36 inches (collection of the artist, © Bridget Riley 2023, all ...

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ALMOST NO ONE does ceiling paintings any longer. “I think it’s because we build towers nowadays,” says Mark Getty, who chaired the board of trustees of the National Gallery in London between 2009 and ...

Op Art pioneer Bridget Riley is showcasing a series of her emphatic wall paintings at Galerie Max Hetzler‘s Potsdamer Straße location in Berlin. The show will consist of 13 works in total, more than ...

Starting in the early 1960s, British artist Bridget Riley began exploring a style of art based upon simple geometric forms such as squares, lines, and ovals. Known as Op-art, the works created in this ...

Witnessing the work of Bridget Riley is like stepping into a trance. Known for her brilliant optical illusions, Riley defamiliarizes the eye in a way that only the true masters of art can. In a ...

Now aged 94, Bridget Riley has been remarkably “consistent” over her long career, but is often misunderstood, said Lily Le Brun in The Observer. Back in the 1960s, her “bold, geometric, abstract” ...