10-Minute Challenge: A Modern Master Takes Us Inside an Artist’s Studio By Larry Buchanan
October 2025
The New York Times brings you another focus challenge, in which they invite you to spend uninterrupted time looking at a piece of art. This one, called “Untitled (Studio),” was painted by the American Kerry James Marshall in 2014. In real life, it is nearly 10 feet wide.
More than 60 of Kerry James Marshall’s paintings are on view through January at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. “If one spends the time and looks at the work closely enough, there’s nothing that’s not available,” he told my colleague Aruna D’Souza for a recent article about his show.