Art
Cézanne’s Hard Truths
For Cézanne, stone represented structure incarnate.
London
Art
Surrealism’s Unfinished Business
The art of the collagiste is essentially the art of the scavenger, the opportunistic thief.
News
Banksy Painting Sells for $10M, Surpassing Its High Estimate
Banksy’s “Show Me The Monet” (2005), a riff on Monet’s paintings of his Japanese bridge in Giverny, has achieved the second-highest price ever paid for a work by the street artist.
News
Climate Activists Crash Arctic Exhibition at British Museum to Protest Oil Funding
BP or not BP? staged the demonstration as part of a day of action convened by the Alaskan Indigenous organizations Defend the Sacred AK and Native Movement.
News
A Dana Schutz Portrait of Trump Just Sold For More Than $711,000
The painting of Trump ominously descending an escalator on the day he announced his presidential campaign was sold by Phillips in London today.
Art
Marina Abramović Enhances Her Brand
Abramović’s interests lie more with perpetuating herself as a product than with what she actually expresses through her art.
Art
Through Clairvoyance, Artists Forged Their Own Paths and Networks
Not Without My Ghosts demonstrates the way mediumistic art practices unsettle the narratives of Modernism, specifically in relation to automatism and the development of abstraction.
Art
National Gallery Shakes off Tired, Lazy View of Artemisia Gentileschi as “Victim”
Seeing how impressive and successful Gentileschi was in her lifetime, it is staggering that it has taken a show such as this to dispel her unfair dismissal by art history.
Film
Steve McQueen Brings the Vibrancy of British Caribbean Communities to the Big Screen
With Mangrove, Lover’s Rock, and Red, White and Blue, McQueen’s Small Axe anthology emphasizes resilience and collective strength.
News
Activists Stand Trial for Protest in French Museum Over Plundered Artifacts
Members of a Pan-African group stood trial in Paris on charges of attempted theft for an action staged at the city’s Quai Branly Museum.
In Brief
Early Paintings by Edward Hopper Found to Be Replicated From Magazines
Louis Shadwick, a PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute in London, says the American modernist reproduced the works from a how-to arts magazine when he was a teenager.
News
Ai Weiwei Stages Silent Protest in Support of Wikileaks Founder
Julian Assange is facing 17 espionage charges and one charge of computer misuse.