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Let the retrospectives begin: 2014, a year in art
Say what you want about 2014 (and spoiler alert, I certainly will) — it may have been a kidney stone of a year, but like a kidney stone, it’ll pass. Global malaise aside, this was a lively year for the … Continue reading
A tad less impermanence
Countless lifetimes after the art we last explored found its inspiration, we’re happy to see new art, via a modern medium, similarly inspired. Muralist Eric Skotnes, who paints with the intercession of aerosol accelerant, created this tableau and the timelapse, … Continue reading
Is the art world wracked by fraud?
Seems like a dirty little secret of the art world, one that’s probably been whispered about since art became a commodity and collections became investments, is breaking out into the open. Dealers, curators, and those investment-level collectors probably aren’t sanguine about … Continue reading
Tattoo new – culling sound from the ink
Staying with the tattoo theme for just a moment longer, the Deconstruction offers the sincerest of hat tips to Muscovite artist Dmitry Morozov (nom d’arte ::vtol::) for creating something brand new with what we’ve just this past week nominated as … Continue reading
The art, it gets under your skin
Since no one is really painting on cave walls anymore, we have to agree that there’s just one art form that has survived since primordial times, and is practiced just as fervently and reverentially today as it was then, as … Continue reading
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Da Vinci’s drafts
Nearly five hundred years after his death, Leonardo Da Vinci is still celebrated, and widely recognized, as one of the Western world’s most accomplished polymaths, inventors, and above all, artists. Even the most uninitiated can easily see why—a glance through … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Art history, lady with an ermine, leonardo da vinci, Pascal Cotte, what is culture?
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Katie Paterson and Margaret Atwood play the literary long game
Great literature might be timeless, but until now both of those superlatives—greatness and timelessness—have been unintended (and probably too-good-to-be-hoped-for) parts of the writing experience. Writers write, readers judge, and history ultimately decides. That’s how it’s always gone Leave it to … Continue reading
When art was labor, and labor was salvation
Crises have a way of bringing out the best or the worst in people, and in societies, and in cultures. There’s rarely a middle ground, and there’s rarely any ambiguity to it. You might think of them as litmus tests … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, culture, FDR, Federal Arts Project, Jackson Pollack, Labor Day, Mark Rothko, New Deal, public art, public works, Roosevelt
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First Impression
Impressionism is arguably the most influential artistic movement of the last half millennium. It represented a stylistic break with the rigid Realism that preceded it, and inspired in its wake not only the techniques and subject matter embraced by visual … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Degas, Donald Olsen, Impressionism, Lichtenstein, Monet, Picasso, Pissarro, Pollock, Renoir, Van Gogh
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Nina Paley illuminates the Levant
Artist, activist, filmmaker (and much more) Nina Paley might just have succeeded were corps of cognoscenti and commentators have been left foundering. Their line of inquiry, topical yet perpetual, has been, “Why can’t there be peace in the Middle East?” … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, Art, current events, film, Israel, Middle East, Nina Paley, Palestine
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World got you down? Just dance
If you’ve had any exposure to the news over the last week or so, you know things seem to have gotten very, very bad. Tempting though it may be, escapism probably isn’t the answer. I’ve no proof of this, but I … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, Ballet Hispanico, current events, dance, deconstruction, what is culture?
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Banksy took Manhattan – the movie?
Has it really been nearly a year since enigmatic Brit street artist Banksy steamrolled NYC? New Yorkers aren’t likely to forget the experience any time soon, but just in case the rest of us have, his website is now hosting … Continue reading
Every other year – the art world lets its hair down
Doesn’t seem easy for the arts to do the unexpected. Or rather, artists themselves thrive on the unusual and the risky, but the arts establishment does its best to steer them, and their production, right back toward the mainstream. This … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, biennial, classical music, culture, new music, new york philharmonic, Pierre Boulez, The Raven, what is culture?
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Past masterpieces, new perspectives
This is the second time we’ve seen this, so we’ll go ahead and call it a trend. Modern digital artists are revisiting the canvases of painters departed, lending dimensionality to their works. When last we checked in Picasso’s haunting “Guernica” … Continue reading
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Tagged 3d art, Art, Budavár Repossession, Guernica, Gyula Benczúr, Picasso, what is culture?, Zsolt Ekho Farkas
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Made in the USA – a collector’s retrospective
Duncan Phillips pioneered the collection of American art. He did so at a time when most of the world was loathe to admit Americans could create or even appreciate art. From the 1920s until his death in 1966, he built … Continue reading
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Tagged Alexander Calder, American art, Art, Art history, Duncan Phillips, Georgia O'Keefe, Mark Rothko, Phillips Collection, Winslow Homer
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