Art
Recently Discovered Forrest Bess Paintings
It is one thing to be a visionary and another to be one whose work holds your attention for a sustained period of time.
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The Many Faces of Gillian Wearing
Regardless of which way the camera is pointing, Wearing shows a lively — and altogether merciless — interest in how people choose to tell their own stories.
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Jonathan Feldschuh's Visions of a Subatomic World
Feldschuh understands that the actions and interactions of particles can be formulated mathematically but not illustrated visually.
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Two Latinx Artists Take On Gentrification from the Perspective of Those Displaced
Shellyne Rodriguez and Danielle De Jesus powerfully respond to the continued attacks on their neighborhoods with works that validate and uplift elements of everyday urban Latinx life that are usually devalued.
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Required Reading
This week, I've included a lot of humor because with the recent news on the coronavirus variant, we can all use it.
Opinion
How is This Possibly the Right Time for a Fabergé Show at the V&A?
So legendarily precious and complex are the Fabergé eggs that they have become a byword for insane expenditure.
News
Why Was An Artist "Swarmed" By Police During a Miami Art Fair Performance?
While performing a piece for Satellite Art Show, Xxavier Edward Carter was approached by a group of officers who threatened him with ten years in prison.
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A Portal Tracks Objects Acquired by German Institutions Through Colonialism
Gerke Dunkhase estimates that only half of the Benin bronzes in Germany are logged on the portal so far, calling the current database a “prototype” of what’s to come.
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Announcement
Unlikely Journal for Creative Arts Releases New Issue, Calls for Guest Editors and Submissions
“Following Sonorous Bodies” is available online. The journal also seeks guest editors for themed issues, books, and more, as well as contributors for Issue 8, “Birds & Language.” Proposals are due December 15.
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Getting to Know an Overlooked Pioneer of Bay Area Abstraction
The art world has paid attention to other artists from the same era, but we have not done the same with Sonia Gechtoff, and it is time that we did.
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Not Quite the Wifredo Lam Show That's Needed Now
Wifredo Lam developed a style that dances between figuration and abstraction, but the selected compositions at Pace gallery tend to repeat.
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Love, Art, And Politics Intertwined
These four artists dig into the cultural and geologic history of the enclave of Staten Island to produce work that resonates with the core of bell hooks 's commendation to love.