LOS ANGELES – Their dogs play together between canvases, drop cloths and spray cans. They get into cars on their journeys to each other’s exhibitions far away. Sometimes they share paint supplies. In an often competitive art world, the painters who come to share a studio in the Boyle Heights neighborhood represent an unconventional model …
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LOS ANGELES – Their dogs play together between canvases, drop cloths and spray cans. They get into cars on their journeys to each other’s exhibitions far away. Sometimes they share paint supplies. In an often competitive art world, the painters who come to share a studio in the Boyle Heights neighborhood represent an unconventional model …
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When David Geffen Hall reopens Two new artworks on the Lincoln Center campus this fall Nina Chanel Abney and by jacolby satterwhite – It will span the 65th Street facade and a 50-foot media wall renovated lobby. These highly visible pieces were commissioned by the performing arts center in partnership with zoning. Studio Museum in …
Jean-Michel Basquiat liked his clothes the way he loved his art: “oversized, unusual, chaos under control.” His dyed, burnt clothes were elaborately crafted and often expensive—he favored Rei Kawakubo’s designs for Comme des Garçons—but they never lost the spirit of their former homelessness: “Dress just in case,” he said. d tell me. “I may have …
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As the usual suspects continue to charge the highest prices at the auction – as Monday night proved Warhol’s Marilyn sells for $195 million — the art market continues to catch up with the potential next hot thing. On Tuesday, Christie’s focused on some of those prospects in its 21st century contemporary evening sale — …
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Lika Spivakovska closed two art galleries in Kyiv, Ukraine hours after Russia invaded her country, and felt helpless as she and her two children traveled across Europe seeking refuge. Artists stranded in Ukraine had been texting him all week saying that their home ateliers and studios had been destroyed by the attackers. According to text …
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This article is part of our latest article Special section on museumsfocusing on new artists, new audiences, and new ways of thinking about exhibitions. WinslowHomer At the Metropolitan Museum of Art. jasper johns and Edward Hopper in Whitney. in Matisse Museum of Modern Art and Philadelphia Museum of Art. At a time when cultural institutions …
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BABY IN FIRE EscapeCreativity, Motherhood and the Mind-Baby Problemby Julie Phillips “Where do I want my vitality to go?” Susan Sontag wrote in her diary in 1962, 10 years after the birth of her only child. “Is it books, sex, ambition, love, anxiety or lust? It can’t be both.” In “Baby on Fire Ladder,” biographer …
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In the animated biopic “Charlotte” about the German Jewish painter Charlotte Salomon, the film’s most telling moment may be its last. Concluding with an audible image of a Nazi gathering on the French Riviera, directors Éric Warin and Tahir Rana come closest to capturing Salomon’s short life, with tensions between creative and nihilistic. Actress Keira …
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Lagos-born, Irish-raised dancer Mufutau Yusuf comes to the Irish Arts Center with a solo “Debt” and says “about my ancestors, my Yoruba heritage.” Source link
LONDON – Ingrid Pollard, a pioneering Black female photographer, and Veronica Ryan, a widely recognized Black sculptor in her 60s, are among this year’s nominees for the prestigious British visual arts award, the Turner Prize. The four-person shortlist was announced Tuesday at an online press conference at the Tate Liverpool, an art museum in northern …
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The book was part travelogue, part meditation on what inspired pilgrimages and what those who made them sought. “This is a meditative, reflective book,” Merle Rubin wrote in her review for The Christian Science Monitor, “a careful blend of objectivity and subjectivity, written in an open-minded spirit delicately balanced between belief and disbelief.” Eleanor Carroll …
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