Spotlight – Page 30

Activist Artist Dread Scott On Why We Need A Revolution

February 18, 2017

Huffington Post - Activist artist Dread Scott creates in a language of searing simplicity. His work subverts American iconography to reveal the brutal injustices embedded in our nation’s marrow. Scott’s fi...

Why German photographer Wolfgang Tillmans is a 21st-century Renaissance man

Artery

February 18, 2017

Artists, Spotlight

DW - "Tillmans does not take pictures - he makes pictures." Chris Dercon, exiting director of the Tate Modern in London and incoming director of the Volksbühne theater in Berlin, gave perhaps the most fitting d...

The man who dresses up as his ancestors

Artery

February 18, 2017

Reviews, Spotlight

BBC - It's an unusual way to get close to your forefathers, but it works for Christian Fuchs. The walls of his elegant apartment overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Lima's bohemian Barranco district are covered wi...

David Hockney’s Retrospective Is Irresistibly British

Artery

February 18, 2017

Reviews, Spotlight

Artsy - In David Hockney’s 1970 painting Ossie Wearing a Fairisle Sweater, the louche fashion designer Ossie Clark is depicted slouching in an armchair. His hair kisses his collar, his arm dangles, rakishly, by...

Two Cy Twombly Exhibitions Marry Myth and Sensual Abstraction

Artery

February 18, 2017

Spotlight, Uncategorized

Hyperallergic - PARIS — With a sloppy style of vacuous vicissitudes, Cy Twombly reversed what the avant-gardes of the prewar era held as a given: the view of history as a burden. There is a marvelously sprightl...