Spotlight – Page 23

7 Photographers Who Captured the Agony and Ecstasy of Young Love

February 13, 2018

Artsy - It is nearly impossible to forget your first romance—from the feeling of falling head over heels for the very first time, to the crushing heartbreak that almost always ensues. The subject has long been ...

New York welcomes Tarsila—the high priestess of Brazil’s Modernist cannibals

Artery

February 13, 2018

Artists, Spotlight

The Art Newspaper - The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil aims to reintroduce Tarsila—as the artist was commonly known—to audiences outside her native country. ...

Circling Back to Kenneth Noland

Artery

December 30, 2017

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Hyperallergic - Kenneth Noland, like his fellow first-tier, Color field painter, Helen Frankenthaler, is enjoying a strong revival of interest. These artists’ alliance with the powerful and polarizing formalist...

Why Jasper Johns Is an Icon of 20th-Century Painting

Artery

December 16, 2017

Spotlight

Artsy - This past fall, the 87-year-old American artist Jasper Johns revealed plans to turn his 170-acre retreat in rural Sharon, Connecticut, into an artists’ residence upon his death. Recognized as one of Am...

FAREWELL OUR GLOBALISM

Artery

December 16, 2017

Spotlight

Art in America - First the good news. “Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World,” now appearing at the Guggenheim Museum in New York through January 7, samples China’s most fertile and challenging post-Ma...

Hito Steyerl Is an Artist With Power: She Uses It for Change

Artery

December 16, 2017

Artists, Spotlight

NY Times - BERLIN — Blurry selfies, pixelated screen shots, Photoshop disasters: Low-quality, mass-reproduced pictures flood our screens every day. They are easy to dismiss, but the German artist Hito Steyerl m...

Megan Vun Wong: Vicissitude

Artery

December 2, 2017

Spotlight

Viewing Megan Vun Wong's work in order to identify its various notations and marks, an attempt to "read" it for it's near associational messages might be time well spent for some people. And yet it would be far...

An Iraqi Artist Bears Witness to the Trauma of Displacement

Artery

November 29, 2017

Spotlight

Hyperallergic - A mahaffa, I learn, is a handheld fan made by weaving the fronds of palm trees, a ubiquitous household item that is emblematic of Iraq and the Gulf region. It is also one of the few belongings t...

The Quiet Radicalism and Dry Humor of Early Gilbert & George

Artery

November 29, 2017

Spotlight

Hyperallergic - The duo’s early work reveals how they opened the door to truly seeing queer bodies in art. - read more...

The Iconoclastic Kinship of Kiefer and Rodin

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November 29, 2017

Spotlight

Hyperallergic - Rodin was solitary before fame came to him, and afterward he became perhaps still more solitary. For fame is ultimately the summary of all misunderstandings that crystallize around a new name. -...