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Studio - Long Live Chagall

criticalissuesintheculturalindustries wrote 2 weeks ago: With the publication of Vasari’s Vite in the sixteenth century, the artist’s (auto)biogr … more →

Tags: Jane Boddy, Marc Chagall, romantic image of the artist, Cezanne, Avant Garde, autobiography

"Blackness in India" (notions of beauty in India)

bollywoodwedding wrote 2 weeks ago: I recently met Lucia King at her film screening of “At Play” at the Bharatiya Vidya Bhav … more →

Tags: Art, Current Events, film, Literature, theatre, othello, blackness, East meets West, fairness creams

Art Making as Subversion or Reification of Majority Opinion

blackandwhiteandthings wrote 3 weeks ago: What is subversion but the acted on impulse to impose oneself onto the structure of the status quo?  … more →

Tags: Paintings and Photography, Drawings, Aesthetics, Portraits, Mixed media, Walter Benjamin, Derek Wolcott, Arthur C. Danto, Post Historical Art

Barbara Hepworth, Leeds Art Gallery

dumblikeapainter wrote 3 weeks ago: … more →

Tags: Barbara Hepworth, 20th century sculpture, Leeds Art Gallery, Modernist sculpture

"An Artist with no nationality" by Kavita Ramdya (review of Anish Kapoor at the Royal Academy of Art)

bollywoodwedding wrote 2 months ago: Read Kavita Ramdya’s review of Anish Kapoor’s exhibit at the Royal Academy of Art. The A … more →

Tags: Art, Hinduism, National Identity, anish kapoor, Royal Academy of Art

"An Indian in Paris" by Kavita Ramdya (Sakti Burman at Aicon Gallery London)

bollywoodwedding wrote 2 months ago: Click here to read Kavita Ramdya’s profile of artist Sakti Burman and a review of his show at … more →

Tags: Art, south asians, Hinduism, Popular Culture, NewsIndia Times, East meets West, South Asians in England, Sakti Burman, Aicon Gallery

Russian Art: Vladimir Kozlinksy's Then and Now

A.R. Duckworth wrote 5 months ago:   Vladimir Kozlinsky’s Then and Now was a window poster produced in 1920. The poster was produ … more →

Tags: art history/criticism, Graphic Art, Lenin, political art, Poster Art, Propaganda, Russian art, Soviet Art, Then and Now

Paint Paint: Art Exhibit by Lynne Bernbaum

lisaparavisini wrote 8 months ago: Lynne Bernbaum, a U.S. born and Anguilla based Modernist Artist, has just unveiled her latest collec … more →

Tags: Art, Lynne Bernbaum, Anguilla

Did we lose something when we got electricity?1 comment

blakerig wrote 8 months ago: How come the paintings of the 18th and 19th centuries always seem to be more sophisticated and compl … more →

Tags: Turin, Art, Contemporary Art, Art Gallery

Modernist Art: Carlo Carra's 'Funerali dell'anarchico Galli'2 comments

Vedette Bianciotti wrote 8 months ago: Futurism was an important and vibrant art movement which was founded in the early 20th century in It … more →

Tags: art history/criticism, Modernism, Art, Futurism, futurist, Painting, Italian Art, MiLan, Carlo Carrà

Henry Moore and Meis van der Rohe

dumblikeapainter wrote 9 months ago: The biomorphic Moore looks great against the New National Gallery in Berlin.  Partly it’s the … more →

Tags: Art Galleries, Henry Moore, Architecture, Museums, 20th century sculpture, Berlin, public sculpture, mies van der rohe, art and architecture

Francis Bacon - Tate Britain - Autumn 2008

Alastair Dunning wrote 1 year ago: It’s possible to pontificate lots on Francis Bacon (and I shall probably try here), but there … more →

Tags: Francis Bacon, Tate Britain, Archive, Art, bacon, Innocent, pope, Portraits, Science

Notes on From Russia - Royal Academy - Spring 20081 comment

Alastair Dunning wrote 1 year ago: Huge variety of styles on show, but drawing plenty of influences from Impressionism, Post-Impression … more →

Tags: Nineteenth Century, Royal Academy, France, Impressionism, malevich, Post-Impressionism, Russia

Hammershoi - Royal Academy - Summer 2008

Alastair Dunning wrote 1 year ago: Even the tiredest eye will alight on the affiliation between Vilhelm Hammershøi and Vermeer. There i … more →

Tags: Copenhagen, Denmark, Hammershoi, Painting, Royal Academy

The American Scene - British Museum - August 2008

Alastair Dunning wrote 1 year ago: Take a step back from the subject matter, from the skyscrapers and boxing matches, from the futurist … more →

Tags: British Museum, united states, Prints, Modernism, america, bellows, Lewis, Hopper

My current obsession

stylehighclub wrote 1 year ago:     are these fantastic 1920s dresses which I have found in a book called Vintage Fashion that my fr … more →

Tags: Inspiration, 1920s fashion

Colour After Klein, Barbican Gallery

Alastair Dunning wrote 2 years ago: Exhibition held in Spring / Summer 2005 Colour’s an easy choice for a hard-up curator. There … more →

Tags: Contemporary Art, Barbican Gallery

Albers and Moholy-Nagy, From the Bauhaus to the New World, Tate Modern

Alastair Dunning wrote 2 years ago: Exhibition held in Spring 2006 Inspired by the Bauhaus and by the relentless development of the earl … more →

Tags: tate modern, Albers, Moholy-Nagy

Modigliani and his Models, Royal Academy of Art

Alastair Dunning wrote 3 years ago: To my mind, the very best exhibitions are those where one leaves with a much enhanced conception of … more →

Tags: Royal Academy, Modigliani


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