in every installment Artists, T highlights a recent or rare work by a Black artist and a few words from that artist that put the work in context. This week we’re looking at a painting by the artist and curator. Known for her vivid figurative paintings that address issues of belonging, marginal identity and Britain’s …
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On a Thursday in June 1970, a San Francisco police officer was freaking out as drivers entering the busy Central Freeway near Market Street slammed their brakes, startled by an unusual sight. On what had been bare ground the day before, a young woman was sitting on a bale of hay surrounded by potted palm …
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Etel Adnan was born on February 24, 1925 in Beirut, Lebanon. His Damascus-born Syrian father, Assaf Kadri, was a retired high-ranking officer in the Ottoman army and a former classmate of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founding father of the Turkish Republic. His mother, Rosa Kadri, grew up in the city of Smyrna (now Izmir in …
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Six tacos, six glaze donuts, and a Cherry Coke: This was the last meal of a man executed in Oklahoma in July 1999. The following year, it was processed with cobalt blue glaze on a white china plate, and it was the first dish. by Julie Green Decades-old art project “The Last Supper,” documenting the …
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Paykan was the first automobile produced in Iran. It began life as a licensed copy of the Hillman Hunter, an outdated British vehicle produced from 1967 to 2015, but has nevertheless become a symbol of national pride, priced in for middle-class Iranians. Paykans eventually began to serve the streets of Tehran as sedans, wagons, pickups …
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MANCHESTER, UK – Rolling, rubbing, poking and caressing: The dance track “Human Measure”, which premiered here earlier this month, is full of bodies touching one another. Performed by multimedia artist cassils and five other mostly nude dancers, six of whom are not duos, the choreography ranges from sensibly intimate to hedonistically insane. The tone set …
This article is part of our latest article Fine Arts and Exhibitions A special report on how arts institutions help audiences discover new options for the future. Few places in the world are more isolated than the east coast of Iceland, Skagafjordur, with a wide tidal inlet in the Arctic Circle. Baer Art Center sits …
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Inside Message posted on Twitter two years ago artist Raymond Pettibon He thanked his two friends who visited him. “Thank you Christian Rosa and Henry Taylor for coming,” she wrote. “Great artists and kind, genuine people. You made my day.” However, according to federal prosecutors, at the time, Mr. Rosa was involved in something that …
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Artist Julie Mehretu was appointed to the board of directors. Whitney Museum of American Art, the museum announced Tuesday, making him the third artist trustee in Whitney history and one of seven new members to join its board last year. Mehretu joined the artist Fred Wilson on board; Chuck Close, who died in augustwas the …
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Artist Julie Mehretu was appointed to the board of directors. Whitney Museum of American Art, the museum announced Tuesday, making him the third artist trustee in Whitney history and one of seven new members to join its board last year. Mehretu joined the artist Fred Wilson on board; Chuck Close, who died in augustwas the …
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An artist died when an accident occurred during a change of scenery during an opera at Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater on Saturday, the theater said. In his late 30s, the man was working as an extra in a performance of Russian composer Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera “Sadko”. Russian news reports said the man was crushed by a …
Throughout his long, provocative career, artist Billy Apple changed his name, registered it as a trademark, branded products with it, sequenced his genome, and eventually extracted and stored their cells so they could survive forever. could not. He died on September 6 at his home in Auckland, New Zealand, at the age of 85. His …
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