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Three Decades of Linda Stark’s Oil Paintings, on View in New YorkImageLeft: Linda Stark’s “Samantha” (2005). Right: Stark’s “Silver That Girl” (1998).Credit...© Linda Stark, courtesy of the artist and Ortuzar, New York. Photos: Jeff McLane (left), Steven Probert (right)

By Sarah Durn

Artists have been working with oil paint for more than a millennium, but few have explored its sculptural possibilities as deftly as the Los Angeles-based Linda Stark. In a process that can take years, Stark drips, layers and shapes oil paint until it rises an inch or more beyond the canvas, creating three-dimensional images that look like surreal, metaphysical clip art. In her first New York show in more than 20 years, “Ethereal Material” at Ortuzar in TriBeCa, Stark’s wide-ranging oeuvre will be on full display in pieces spanning over 30 years. “My work is broadly autobiographical and confessional,” she says. Sometimes a dream or meditation inspires a painting. After her cat Samantha died, she appeared to Stark during a moment of reflection, surrounded by what the artist describes as a flower of light. “I painted the image [“Samantha” (2005)] and found that afterward a healing had occurred,” she says. Other times, personal objects spark ideas. Her eldest sister’s senior picture prompted “Silver That Girl” (1998), Stark’s simple, shiny version of the actress Marlo Thomas’s classic 1960s flip hairdo. It became a tribute to “a generation of graying feminists,” says Stark. “It’s a statement about the beauty of a silver-haired woman.” “Ethereal Material” will be on view through Dec. 7 at Ortuzar, New York, ortuzarprojects.com.

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Century-Old Swedish Designs Get a RevivalImageCast from original 20th-century molds, Nafveqvarn’s collection of re-editions includes an iron console designed by the architect Folke Bensow.Credit...Fanny Radvik

By Zoe Ruffner

When the Swedish foundry Nafveqvarn debuted its collection of artisanal cast-iron home objects — ranging from shell-shaped urns to scroll-capped stools — at the 1925 World’s Fair in Paris, the Swedish Grace movement — a short-lived yet significant chapter in design history known for its refined restraint and neo-Classical details — found a place on the international stage. Now, nearly a century later, a handful of those seminal creations are in production once again, thanks to Eva Anegrund, who took over Nafveqvarn from her father in 2018 after stumbling upon the 400-year-old company’s original molds in a warehouse. Available through the Montana-based antiques shop Emerson Bailey, the growing collection of re-editions — which is handcrafted from recycled scrap at a foundry powered by wind and water — includes intricate, multipurpose vessels conceived by the 20th-century sculptors Carl Elmberg, Ivar Johnsson and Anna Petrus. A console table designed by the architect Folke Bensow, meanwhile, features a surface made of a green-grained marble unique to Sweden’s Kolmarden countryside. From $800, emersonbailey.com.

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The Artists Putting Their Own Spin on the Tarot DeckImageFrom left: the Hirschfeld Broadway Tarot, $30, hachettebookgroup.com. Dalí Tarot, $60, taschen.com. Tarot del Fuego, $29, loscarabeo.com. Pasta Tarot, $22, thepastatarot.com.Credit...Courtesy of the brands

By Juan A. Ramírez

Tarot cards have been around since at least the 1400s, when Milanese nobility commissioned specialty tarocchi for parlor games, long before 18th-century French occultists began tying the practice to murky supernatural meanings. Regardless of psychic abilities, these decks offer artists the opportunity to create worlds around recognizable archetypes (The Fool, Justice, Death, etc.). Last month the former theater publicist Emily McGill released the Hirschfeld Broadway Tarot, a deck that assigns these roles to on- and offstage characters using archival illustrations by the caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. Tony and Maria from “West Side Story” become The Lovers, while the Nine of Swords, a card linked to delusion, is represented by Norma Desmond from “Sunset Boulevard.” McGill also highlights lesser-known historical figures, such as Eva Le Gallienne, a pioneer of regional and Off Broadway theater who shows up as The Empress. Other artists drawn to tarot include Salvador Dalí who published a set in 1984 that soon went out of print — until Taschen revived it in 2019. The Spanish artist Ricardo Cavolo lent his cartoonishly mystical style to a deck for the historic Fournier manufacturer in 2021, with a similarly colorful look as his collaborations with the musician Kaytranada. And in a cheeky return to the deck’s Italian roots, the Pasta Tarot, created by a New York drag queen and a games producer for The New York Times, puts both a queer and culinary spin on the cards.

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