In Painting for My Dad (2011), artist Noah Davis presents a male figure gazing over a rocky landscape beneath a star-strewn, nearly black night sky. With the figure facing away from the viewer ...

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It’s a view from the tomb. Painting for My Dad (2011) Credit: The Estate of Noah Davis and David Zwirner Davis resisted painting clichés associated with the black American experience (such as ...

Noah is my Osiris. He will live forever through his work. My assignment is to gather these parts of my love and protect them,” she told Observer.

As is also characteristic of medieval art, proportion is less important than theology: an ecclesiastical ark that one of Noah’s sons can cover with his body is either going to be very cramped or ...