Feast Your Eyes on the Stunning Islamic Art in This New Exhibition
Smithsonian - A sumptuous new show in Los Angeles aims to leave museumgoers hungry for more. - read more ...
Artform Hit the Reset Button
Liam Davis for Artery Magazine
Scrolling Instagram this morning I notices a Post by the artist William Powhida feature the cover of the current Artforum and accompanied by a quote from Julia Bryan-Wilson sa...
Exploring the ‘Epicenter’ of Pablo Picasso in His Drawings
The New York Times - The first word that Pablo Picasso ever pronounced was “pencil.”
At least that was how his mother remembered the young prodigy: that he drew before he could speak, and that the word “piz” —...
Frieze London art fair review – a graveyard of creativity for tasteless one percenters
The Guardian - This corporate gathering full of artists’ drab, desperate attempts to get bought by clueless rich collectors has domesticated contemporary art and thus killed it. - read more
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Two paintings with the same title, The Destruction of the Temple of Jerusalem
Domus - War. Death. Destruction. Once again terror. Gaza under attack. Hamas’ rockets on Ashkelon, sirens in Tel Aviv, rockets between Israel and Lebanon. The horror returns. - read more
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British Museum launches webpage to recover stolen objects—and announces return of 60 items
The Art Newspaper - The British Museum is finally going public on its strategy to recover the 2,000 antiquities that have been stolen from its collection in the past few years, with a webpage dedicated to the ...
First-Rate Surrealist Storytelling Gets Its Due
Art in America - On the afternoon of February 20, 1943, a volcano suddenly appeared in a cornfield near the remote village of Parícutin, Mexico. The field’s owner—a farmer named Dionisio Pulido—later recalled h...
David Platzker on the art of Ed Ruscha
Art Forum - The distancefrom the Knox-Less service station in Oklahoma City to Bob’s Seaside Service, not so far from the Santa Monica Pier at the terminus of Route 66—both pictured in Ed Ruscha’s 1963 artist’s...
Francoise Gilot Was More Than Picasso’s Muse
Art in America - Walking out on Picasso, as Françoise Gilot did in 1953, could not eliminate his impact on her own art and life. The ambiguity is right there in the final lines of what remains her most notable...
Care Isn’t Enough for the Climate Crisis
Hyoerallergic - LONDON — “Care is a form of resistance.” This statement, borrowed from artist Otobong Nkanga, is a simple and potentially powerful premise for an exhibition exploring the climate crisis. Dear Ea...