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Art Historicism and the Remaking of the Present
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1039+ words) The Brooklyn Rail With the recent return to...each other, like strata in an ever-rising hillside. Art Historicism and the Remaking of the Present Historicism’s...romantically looking back through the history of art to explore desire and the artist/model…...
Costume Art
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (674+ words) from the eighteenth century to the present, Costume Art juxtaposes each outfitted mannequin with a non-textile...most apparent, is pairing a costume with a work of art featuring wardrobes of the same time period. The...represent a more literal transposition…...
Thomas Houseago: Sculptures
1+ week, 4+ day ago (741+ words) The Brooklyn Rail Rubble piles into mounts in the British director Ken Loach’s 1991 film Riff-Raff, which chronicles the lives and struggles of a group of construction workers tasked with transforming a dilapidated hospital into luxury housing in London’s Tottenham Square....
EMILY RAUH PULITZER with Jennifer Stockman & Joachim Pissarro
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1797+ words) about their formative experiences. You grew up with art, and have been involved with the art world for, what—seventy years? Pulitzer: I think...have had? Stockman: Does the house still have the art installed that you lived with? Stockman:…...
Willem de Kooning: The Breakthrough Years, 1945???50
1+ week, 4+ day ago (179+ words) (ARS), New York. Courtesy the Princeton University Art Museum. David Whelan is an artist living in the...
Richard Estes: My Camera Is My Sketchbook
3+ week, 4+ day ago (173+ words) becomes legible. Saul Ostrow is an independent critic, curator, and Art Editor at Large for BOMB magazine....
Ana Mendieta
3+ day, 16+ hour ago (55+ words) The vocabulary reflexively applied to Ana Mendieta’s work, especially her land-based body imprints, brims with a romance of primordial forces: ritual, spiritual, numinous. The Cuban American artist called it “magic,” a word that feels at odds with the logic of…...
Revision
1+ week, 4+ day ago (698+ words) The Brooklyn Rail The Western art historical canon is a selective construction of...a European patriarchal perspective. Revisions to art history can produce a more generous telling of the...accounts. Faith Ringgold (b. 1930; d. 2024) reimagined art historical scenes in her series The…...
Ali Banisadr: Temple of the Mind
1+ week, 4+ day ago (981+ words) × 60 inches. Courtesy the artist and Buffalo AKG Art Museum. The study of art history can lead to the perception that the subject...Ali Banisadr: Temple of the Mind at the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, the framework is revelatory. This exhibition,......
Mona Hatoum: Over, under and in between
1+ week, 4+ day ago (1140+ words) beginning with her student days at the Slade School of Art in London in the late 1970s. It is testament to...