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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
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
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
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
Hyperallergic - The duo’s early work reveals how they opened the door to truly seeing queer bodies in art. -
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The Iconoclastic Kinship of Kiefer and Rodin
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. -...
From Henri Matisse to Judy Chicago, 9 Artists Who Designed Dazzling Stained Glass Windows
Artsy - The term “stained glass” may trigger thoughts of dark gothic churches and staid biblical imagery of the medieval era. But as these modern and contemporary artists prove, stained glass windows can provid...
Lost masterpieces found at Carmarthenshire County Museum
BBC - The portraits of the Earl and Countess of Carbery at Carmarthenshire County Museum had been attributed to Sir Peter Lely and 'artist unknown' respectively. But experts found the countess was painted by Br...
Why Edvard Munch Began Painting Portraits of the Soul
Hyperallergic — In early October 1889, Norwegian painter Edvard Munch left the city of Kristiania (now Oslo) for Paris. At age 25, he was more than ready to leave behind a scolding, pietistic father and the p...
Arlene Gottfried, Photographer Who Found the Extraordinary in the Ordinary, Dies at 66
The New York Times - Arlene Gottfried, whose arresting images of ordinary people in New York’s humbler neighborhoods earned her belated recognition as one of the finest street photographers of her generation, ...