We know precious little about the painter’s life, and we know even less about his work’s meaning. A new book argues that the artist wanted it that way.
Author Archives: Lauren Moya Ford
Lauren Moya Ford is an artist, writer, and translator based in Madrid, Spain. She has exhibited and performed her work at The Menil Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Desperate Literature (Madrid), MCO Arte Contemporânea (Porto), and others. Her writing and visual art have been featured in Gulf Coast Journal and Fields Magazine, and her essays have been published in exhibition catalogs in Spain, Portugal, and the United States.
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How Leo Steinberg Saw the Profound Importance of Prints Before Most
“If you’re going to do art history,” Steinberg declared, “you’d better know what your artists were looking at. And that has to include prints.”
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Anna Torma’s Hand-Sewn Dreams
Inspired by children’s drawings, Hungarian folklore, and medieval legends, Torma’s playful, hand-sewn worlds are engrossing.
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The Silly, Sexy, and Serious Wigs That Made History
“The Wig: A Hairbrained History” explores the wig as a tool for gender bending, seduction, and disguise in a collection of fanciful short essays.
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Meet Virginia Jaramillo, a Pioneering Minimalist Who Fuses Cosmology and Science Fiction
Despite a career spanning six decades, Jaramillo’s rigorous, original work has largely been overlooked by museums and markets — until now.
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Prado Museum Reopens With a Hard Look at Spanish Sexism
“Uninvited Guests” looks at sexism in Spain during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and at the museum’s own essential role in perpetuating it.
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Chuck Ramirez, the Heartfelt Photographer of Trash and Banal Throwaways
Ramirez identified as a conceptual artist, but unlike his peers, his work is “filled with a deep and palpable humanity.”
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A New Book Awash With the Glories of Watercolor
Watercolor: A History features over 300 dazzling, full-color illustrations, all specially printed on Munken paper to capture the intensity and texture of the original works.
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Cervantes’s Sisters: The Female Writers of Spain’s Golden Age
The exhibition Wise and Valiant: Women and Writing in the Spanish Golden Age rescues nearly 30 women from historical oblivion in a display of over 40 manuscripts and publications.
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An Avant-Garde Magazine That Promoted the Indigenism Movement
Amauta affirmed the rights and political demands of Latin America’s indigenous groups and recognized their cultures as vital and authentic alternatives to Hispanicized, colonial narratives.
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Unearthing Canada’s Impressionist Legacy
Canada and Impressionism closes an art-historical gap on the Canadian artists who made the journey to France — most of whom are little known or studied — and explores what happened when they went back home.
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How Europe Learned to Draw
Beginning in the 17th century, instructional drawing books democratized the practice of drawing in Europe, allowing aspiring artists to learn at home and at their own pace.