Featuring giants, such as Matisse and Cézanne, as well as lesser known artists, this year’s best exhibitions ranged from eagerly awaited blockbusters to pleasant surprises Wall Street Journal, article by Karen Wilkin The year’s most memorable exhibitions, some of which can still be seen into 2015, ranged from the much-anticipated to the unexpected, from revealing considerations…
Category: Visual Art
seven new art words
The Art Newspaper’s (least) favourite neologisms By The Art Newspaper. Focus, Issue 263, December 2014; Published online: 22 December 2014 Fairtigue A term circulating since 2012 and increasingly heard this year as dealers, collectors (and, yes, journalists) struggled to keep abreast of the exploding number of art fairs around the world. Megagosian Used to refer to…
me, me, me …
… the Elizabethan earl who kept portrait painters busy for 30 years Article by Mark Brown, arts correspondent, The Guardian {Sunday 21 December 2014} First Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley – a would-be suitor to Elizabeth I – sat for at least 20 portraits, says historian If you can tell a person by their collection of…
hunting for the origins of symbolic thought
Article by Ferris Jabr, via New York Times Magazine Three years ago, on an expedition to Sulawesi, one of the larger islands in the Indonesia archipelago, the archaeologist Adam Brumm visited a cave decorated with ancient art: mulberry-colored hand stencils and paintings of corpulent pig-deer and midget buffalo, complete with hairlike brush strokes. Squeezing past a…
the daffodil code
Leonardo da Vinci always impressed on his students the importance of depicting nature accurately. He wrote: “Painter, you should know that you cannot be good if you are not a master universal enough to imitate with your art every kind of natural form.”
lina viktor :: painting with gold
At 27 years old, Lina Viktor is the art world’s cross between M.I.A. and Nicki Minaj. As her new solo exhibit kicks off, she talks inspiration, her favorite fashionistas, and all things gold.
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