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Hold your breath and steady your hands: Van Gogh under restoration
It’s necessary, no doubt; and at the same time it’s scary as hell: one of the most iconic post-expressionist paintings in existence is about to undergo restoration. The painting in question is Vincent Van Gogh‘s Amsterdam Sunflowers (1889), the third … Continue reading
RIP Ellsworth Kelly (May 31, 1923 – Dec. 27, 2015)
The talented, prolific, and eminently influential artist Ellsworth Kelly died peacefully at home in New York on Sunday. He was 92. Ellsworth Kelly was among the pioneers of the mid-century Abstract Expressionist movement in both Paris and on the U.S. … Continue reading
The devil writes well – a chat with The Devil Strip’s Chris Horne
Alternative newspaper publishing might seem more like an anachronism than a workable business plan, yet since March, 2015 we in the Akron, Ohio area have been blessed with a vibrant, funny, and locally engaged alt-tabloid that is shining a light on … Continue reading
Josh Spero takes on the art$
Sometimes you just have to get yourself kicked out. Writer, editor, and fellow-traveling art blogger Josh Spero calls out the art world’s misplaced values in a guest post this week in Hyperallergic. Do yourself a favor and read it in … Continue reading
Culture of oppression: Moscow gallery forced to close after benefit for political prisoners
The Marat Guelman Gallery, a nexus of the Moscow art scene since before the collapse of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s, has been evicted following an October 18th art auction to benefit twelve anti-Putin protesters imprisoned since 2012. Gallery … Continue reading
Happy little trees on demand: Bob Ross on YouTube
From January 1983 to May 1994 the face of oil-painting pedagogy was surmounted by a ginger ‘fro, and the voice of the same was as calm and soothing as bottled Zen. Bob Ross came to PBS to share The Joy … Continue reading
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Artists at work (that we never thought we’d see)
Sydney professor John Hall is to be heartily commended (hat tip also to Huffington Post’s Priscilla Frank for spreading the word) for helping to preserve some amazing century-old glimpses of artistic giants at work. Ever seen (or ever imagine you … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Art history, Huffington Post, John Robert Hall, Monet, Renoir, Rodin
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A century of the absurd – Looking back on Dada
It was roughly a hundred years ago (the dates are hard to pin down) that one of history’s most vibrant, innovative, and influential art movements was born. Dadaism dominated the scene for a scant twenty years, spinning off from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Armory Show, Art, Art history, Dada, Dadaism, performance art
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Artist / provocateur Petro Wodkins makes Putin’s head explode
Petro Wodkins is by now an old friend of the Deconstruction—we chuckled with him back in May ’13 when he hijacked Belgium’s beloved Mannekin Pis (and replaced it with himself). And we thrilled with him in the following year when … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, audio, Dada, performance art, Petro Wodkins, Russia, Russian Federation, Sound of Power, Vladimir Putin
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Strandbeests – The Uncanny Valley isn’t just for androids anymore
Theo Jansen is a kinetic sculptor—yet that seemingly innocuous title hardly does credit to his signature creation, the Strandbeest. A Strandbeest—literally, a “beach animal”—has an organic appearance only with the most liberal stretch of the imagination. They’re an amalgam of … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, kinetic sculpture, Peabody Essex Museum, sculpture, Strandbeests, Theo Jansen, uncanny valley
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World’s oldest art manual now available for your review
Kudos and thanks going out to the Cambridge University Library for inviting us all to enjoy a 17th-century Chinese manual for artists and calligraphers, which had previously been deemed too fragile to open. The book has now been fully digitized, … Continue reading
City in the desert
Since 1972, one of the most colossal works of art ever sculpted has been rising from the sands in Lincoln County, Nevada. It is not yet complete. Encompassing an area more than a mile long and a quarter mile wide, … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Basin and Range National Monument, City, Doug Pray, Levitated Mass, Michael Heizer, sculpture
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Andy Warhol and the 64-bit treasure hunt
Just over a year ago the Andy Warhol Museum announced something the art world couldn’t have anticipated: the recovery of numerous works by the pop-art maestro unseen for nearly 30 years. Of course, discovery or rediscovery of lost masterpieces isn’t … Continue reading
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Faces of inspiration
The muse presents herself exactly as she wills, and to trying to predict what inspires artists is certain folly. It’s the will o’ the wisp, inspiration is, and difficult though it is to chase and capture, that very elusiveness is … Continue reading
Bill Viola – art in motion
Congrats and hat’s off to pioneering video artist Bill Viola for his recent feature retrospective in Forbes. The article salutes a 40-year career—a time span that neatly parallels video technology itself—in the use of electronic media to convey experiential expression. … Continue reading
