Articles
Article date: Thursday, January 3, 2019
Symbolism of the Pitchfork in Grant Wood’s American Gothic
American artist Grant DeVoloson Wood, usually known as Grant Wood, is best known for his work depicting images of the American Midwest. The painting that made him famous is his depiction of an Iowan famer and his stern-looking daughter, standing rigid in front of the gothic window of their white, wooden home.
Article date: Wednesday, January 2, 2019
Italy's Uffizi Demands Return of Nazi-Looted Painting
Italy’s Uffizi Galleries called on Germany on Tuesday to return a still-life painting by the Dutch master Jan van Huysum, which was looted by retreating Nazi troops in World War Two, as Reuters reports.
Article date: Monday, December 31, 2018
Invisibles by Jaume Plensa at Museo Reina Sofía
Throughout his career as a sculptor, Jaume Plensa (Barcelona, 1955) has drawn on spirituality, the body and collective memory as the primary sources which tie together his visual artwork. The invisible forms the essence of his intervention in the Palacio de Cristal: a group of steel mesh sculptures which take the space to draw the incomplete faces of figures hanging in the air, intersected by light and suspended in time.
Article date: Sunday, December 30, 2018
A Dream of Italy - The Marquis Campana’s Collection in the Louvre
The Musée du Louvre and the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg are joining forces for an outstanding exhibition based on the collection built up by the Marquis Campana mostly between the 1830s and the 1850s. With over 12,000 archaeological objects, paintings, sculptures, and objets d’art, and comprising both ancient and modern artefacts, it was a rich, diverse collection of the highest quality.
Article date: Saturday, December 29, 2018
Chinese Architecture Firm MAD has Designed a New Arts and Culture Foundation in Rotterdam, Named Fenix
MAD Architects has been commissioned by the Droom en Daad Foundation to design a panoramic viewpoint on top of the historic Fenix warehouse in Rotterdam. Rotterdam-based company Bureau Polderman will be responsible for restoring the historic warehouse itself.
Article date: Thursday, December 27, 2018
Eastern Zen and Dutch Pragmatism Inform Innovative Designs by Hiroki Matsuura, CEO of MADMA urbanism+landscape and Founding Partner at MASA Architects
"The magnificence of aesthetics seems related to the anonymity of the design. Our office is located in Rotterdam by the harbor. I hardly see the fingerprints of personal design intentions in my view; instead I see beautiful harbor landscapes. My intention in design is to create something that appears as if it already existed there before our personal design intervention."
Article date: Tuesday, December 25, 2018
Incomplete Perfection
South Korean artist Kim Byung Chul’s exhibition “Fingertip” at coGalleries Berlin urges viewers to reflect on the meaning of our humanity. To him our essence lies exactly in what Western progressivism has taught us to move away from.
Article date: Friday, December 21, 2018
Firing up Weird Science at the Whitney
Kevin Beasley (b. 1985, Lynchburg, VA) engages with the legacy of the American South through a new installation that centers on a cotton gin motor from Maplesville, Alabama. In operation from 1940 to 1973, the motor powered the gins that separated cotton seeds from fiber. Here, the New York-based artist uses it to generate sound as if it were a musical instrument, creating space for visual and aural contemplation.
Article date: Thursday, December 20, 2018
National Museum of Brazil Now Available on Google Street View Three Months After Fire
Google Arts & Culture to bring museum's collection online —so that anyone, anywhere in the world could see and learn about these ancient artifacts. Now for the first time ever, you can virtually step inside the museum and learn about its lost collection through Street View Imagery and online exhibits.
Article date: Thursday, December 20, 2018
Fans Gather to See Port Talbot's New Work by Banksy
Art fans have been gathering outside a steelworker's garage in Port Talbot to look at a new work by the elusive street artist Banksy. The graffiti, entitled Season's Greetings, was painted on the outside of a steelworker's garage on Tuesday night.
Article date: Sunday, December 9, 2018
Belgian Colonial Museum Re-Opens Amid Protests and Demands for Return of Artifacts
Belgium's controversial Africa Museum re-opened on Saturday after a five-year renovation, but protests and a request from the President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for the return of its stolen artefacts have overshadowed the site's unveiling.
Article date: Friday, December 7, 2018
Anish Kapoor Statement on Victory Over NRA Use of Imagery
"We are pleased to declare victory over the NRA. They have now complied with our demand to remove the unauthorised image of my sculpture Cloud Gate from their abhorrent video 'The Violence of Lies', which seeks to promote fear, hostility and division in American society."
Article date: Thursday, December 6, 2018
The Aestheticized Interview with Kent Anderson Butler (USA)
Kent Anderson Butler is a Los Angeles based artist working in a variety of mediums including video installation, performance and photography. "Currently, I am engaged in the exploration of the “human condition,” the “body” and the “spirit.” I am exploring the integration of how one can weave aspects of the “sacred”, the “environment” and the “body” within a contemporary cultural climate that increasingly ignores the invisible."
Article date: Thursday, December 6, 2018
Will the Kingdom of Tonga Disappear? Uili Lousi's Impact on the Fight Against Climate Change Through Art
Uili Lousi is among those people who impact the fight against climate change through art. Uili weaves all of his experiences into his artistic practice to create a vibrancy in his work that is described as energy. His work depicts the stillness of FATA-O-TU’I-TONGA in motion and non-motion, asking the question, if the Kingdom of Tonga will disappear.
Article date: Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Da Vinci’s Recipe for Creativity
Leonardo was certainly forward-thinking. He based knowledge on experiments before Newton and Galileo’s scientific revolution, he invented a technic to dissect eyes, and thought of diving-suits centuries before they could be made. His foresight came from mixing fantasy and reality.
Article date: Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Turner Prize 2018: Charlotte Prodger Wins with iPhone Video
An artist who recorded a video-diary on her iPhone has won the £25,000 Turner Prize. Charlotte Prodger’s 32-minute film, BRIDGIT/Stoneymollen Trail, includes shots of her feet resting on a chair and scenes from walks through the Scottish countryside.
Article date: Tuesday, December 4, 2018
Interview with Lynn Davis - 'It's My Journey, But You Can Go There Too'
American photographer Lynn Davis is best known for her large-scale photographs in black and white. She staged her first exhibition at the International Center of Photography in New York City in 1979 alongside Robert Mapplethorpe, a long time friend. After a life changing trip to Greenland in 1986, she shifted her focus towards landscape work and away from the human form.
Article date: Monday, December 3, 2018
Ghérasim Luca - “Héros-Limite” at the Centre Pompidou
An outstanding writer, described by Gilles Deleuze as “the greatest poet in the French language”, Ghérasim Luca is the “héros-limite” of inventiveness in language and imagery, an inspired “cubomaniac” who traverses and tests the practices of poetry, photography, drawing, collage and art publishing.
Article date: Monday, December 3, 2018
Mexico to Help Rebuild Brazil's National Museum
Mexican experts are to help rebuild Brazil's cherished National Museum destroyed a few months ago by a massive blaze which devastated the country. Experts from Mexico's National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) will work alongside their Brazilian colleagues to restore the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro's building and create a new museum.
Article date: Saturday, December 1, 2018
Orsay Through the Eyes of Julian Schnabel
For its first invitation to a great contemporary artist, the Musée d’Orsay has asked the painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel to give an interpretation of the collection, by presenting, in two of the museum’s historic rooms, a new scenography and a selection of works that have never previously been displayed together.