Article date: Monday, July 9, 2018
´69 Positions´ by Mette Ingvartsen
Starting from quotations of relevant art historians and choreographers of the ’60 in the USA, Mette Ingvartsen arrives to the present days reconsidering the importance of interactive, collaborative, participatory choreographies.
Article date: Sunday, July 8, 2018
Monuments Marking the Geographical Centres of the Earth’s Continents
The holiday season has begun and we’d like to share with you these images of monuments erected at the geographical centre points of each continent.
Article date: Sunday, July 8, 2018
Preparing for Darkness, Dystopian Realities and Desolations: Interview with Berlin-based Curator Uwe Goldenstein
Uwe Goldenstein, curator and founder of the Berlin-based gallery and network SELECTED ARTISTS: “Probably there was a lack of melancholy in museums and that’s the reason for the success.”
Article date: Friday, July 6, 2018
Met Museum Sets New Attendance Record with More Than 7.35 Million Visitors
The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it welcomed more than 7.35 million visitors to its three locations—The Met Fifth Avenue, The Met Cloisters, and The Met Breuer—in the fiscal year that ended on June 30 (FY18).
Article date: Thursday, July 5, 2018
A Voice from the Border
Brazilian artist Jota Mombaça –who identifies as gender fluid- uses their writings and performances to describe how the art world is a space they run across because their “body” is not authorized to inhabit it.
Article date: Monday, July 2, 2018
The Aestheticized Interview with Video Artist Tom Skipp
Tom Skipp is British video artist, translator and exhibition curator living in Madrid, Spain. He studied at the Arts Educational School in the Barbican, London and at Warwick University.
Article date: Friday, June 29, 2018
The Image Revisited: Luc Tuymans in Conversation with Gottfried Boehm, T.J. Clark & Hans M. De Wolf
What emerges, along with a fascinating discussion on the work of artists such as El Greco, Cézanne, Goya, de la Tour, Titian, Courbet, Mantegna, Hopper, Newman and Richter amongst others, is an insight into Tuymans’ own creative process, and how the great art of the past inspired and motivated him.
Article date: Friday, June 29, 2018
Art of the Year - 1978
Untitled (for you Leo, in long respect and affection), Dan Flavin, Fluorescent lights and metal fixtures - Art of the Year 1978.
Article date: Wednesday, June 27, 2018
10 Questions: Ewa Axelrad
Ewa Axelrad’s works have rather a distinct quality; simultaneously managing to attract and discomfort the viewer. Whilst realising that one is confronted with ideas that will likely cause unease, there is something in the material and formality of the works that compels the viewer to keep staring.
Article date: Wednesday, June 27, 2018
Presidential Museums and Libraries: Special Focus on the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
ArtDependence Magazine has collaborated with some of the most renowned Presidential Museums and Libraries in the United States to learn about how they conserve and collect artifacts and objects of historical and scientific importance for research and public presentation.
Article date: Monday, June 18, 2018
Major Discovery in van Eyck's Ghent Altarpiece, Adoration of the Mystic Lamb
The Ghent Altarpiece, Adoration of the Mystic Lamb is a large and complex 15th-century polyptych from St. Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium. The work is attributed to Early Flemish painters, brothers Hubert and Jan van Eyck.
Article date: Monday, June 18, 2018
Art of the Year - 1977
Art of the Year - 1977 - The Red Tapes is considered Acconci's masterwork, a three-part epic that is one of the major compositions in video.
Article date: Monday, June 11, 2018
Art of the Year - 1976
The 1970’s art world showed the continued influence of movements from the 1960’s such as Minimalism, Post-Minimalism and Performance Art. Triptych, Francis Bacon, Painting, 1976.
Article date: Friday, June 8, 2018
The First Press Release for the Museum of Modern Art in New York
The initial press release for the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), dating back to August 1929, begins: "The belief that New York needs a Museum of Modern Art scarcely requires apology.”
Article date: Wednesday, June 6, 2018
Cutting Paper Portraits of Strangers: from Subway to Classroom
The title Lu gives himself – “master paper portrait cutter” – is one he carried for five decades. This 63-year-old Chinese art teacher also knows carving, sculpting and calligraphy. “Arts are intertwined,” Lu says in Mandarin.
Article date: Wednesday, June 6, 2018
The Language of Art: An Interview with Joseph Kosuth
A foremost pioneer in Conceptual and Installation art, Joseph Kosuth is well-noted for the language-based artworks and appropriation techniques defining his oeuvre since the 1960s. Throughout his career, Kosuth’s practice has centered on the role of language and meaning within art.
Article date: Tuesday, June 5, 2018
Dame Barbara Hepworth, Spiral
Modern & post-war British art Sotheby’s London showcasing spectacular works by Britain’s most pioneering artists from prestigious private collections.
Article date: Monday, June 4, 2018
Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow
The Dallas Museum of Art announced the first ever solo museum exhibition of works by Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe and the most comprehensive survey of the artist’s work to date. Ida O’Keeffe: Escaping Georgia’s Shadow will bring together approximately 40 paintings, watercolors, prints, and drawings for the first time.
Article date: Monday, June 4, 2018
Art of the Year - 1975
Feminist Art, Land Art and Photorealism also became increasingly prevalent during this era, largely due to evolutions in the broader social and political climates. The President, Fernando Botero, Portrait, 1975.
Article date: Thursday, May 31, 2018
Symbolism in Art: Jeff Koons’ Balloon Dogs
Jeff Koons’ reproduction balloon animals are amongst some of his most recognisable pieces. Usually rendered in a mirror-finished stainless steel in a variety of colours, the works reflect an element of childhood play and disposable culture but in a definitive, substantial form.
