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21 Dec Zoé Whitley Reflects on 2024 and Prepares for Life Beyond Chisenhale Gallery

Posted at 18:00h in Uncategorized by Holly Black

It has been more than four years since Zoé Whitley took the helm at East London’s Chisenhale Gallery, a space known for its ambitious approach to showcasing and commissioning contemporary talent. During her tenure, Abbas Akhavan has stunned with his architectural ode to the Arch...

21 Dec Robert Frank's 'Mary's Book' Goes on Rare View in Boston

Posted at 12:00h in Uncategorized by Vittoria Benzine

The Americans (1958) wasn’t the first photobook Robert Frank ever made. That would be 40 Fotos (1946), a hand-bound compilation of work which the revolutionary American photographer produced while still apprenticing in Switzerland. Frank made three more over the next six years—including a scrapbook for...

21 Dec The Giant Buddha That Quelled a Raging Water Spirit

Posted at 11:00h in Uncategorized by Adnan Qiblawi

Looming at over 230 feet tall, the behemoth Leshan Giant Buddha is by far the tallest Buddha statue in the world. It is a stalwart sentinel, overlooking the tempestuous waters where the Dadu, Minjiang, and Qingyi rivers meet in Sichuan, China. This confluence had been the...

21 Dec Monet Was Once a Street Caricaturist Mocking Locals

Posted at 08:00h in Uncategorized by Sofia Hallstrom

Claude Monet, the founder of Impressionism, revolutionized 19th-century art with his bold use of pure, vibrant colors and his focus on capturing light and scenes of modern life. Unlike traditional artists, the Impressionists were pioneers of en plein air painting, taking their easels outdoors to...

21 Dec A Sprawling Bruce Weber Retrospective Has Landed in Prague

Posted at 07:30h in Uncategorized by Min Chen

A new exhibition at Prague City Gallery’s Stone Bell House arrays hundreds upon hundreds of Bruce Weber’s photographs. They represent the iconic body of work he’s created over a six-decade career, capturing his fashion photographs, magnetic images of celebrities, photojournalistic outings, and sweeping landscapes. Installation view...

21 Dec 8 Artists Share Their Unlikely Studio Essentials—From Shovels to Medieval Manuscripts

Posted at 07:02h in Uncategorized by Verity Babbs

You might think that when artists are faced with the question “what’s your favourite studio tool or art supply” they’d be limited for choice: oil paint, acrylic paint, watercolor, maybe oil pastel at a push—lots of brushes. In fact, artists have been using experimental and adventurous...

21 Dec 12 Art-Related Books to Curl Up With This Holiday Season

Posted at 07:00h in Uncategorized by Sofia Hallstrom

The holiday season is upon us, and for those in the art world, it’s the perfect time to read a book that illuminates, critiques, or celebrates aspects of this niche little world we inhabit. From thought-provoking non-fiction and engaging novels, to tales of art heists...

21 Dec Rare Gold Tongues Found in Egyptian Burial Chamber

Posted at 06:00h in Uncategorized by @EnglishBlase

In the English-speaking world, referring to someone as silver-tongued suggests a smooth and cunning speaker. More than 2,000 years ago, the ancient Egyptians went one better by placing a golden tongue in the mouth of the deceased so that they would be able to speak...

20 Dec I Glimpsed the Art World's Future in Times Square. It's AI-Based, Female, and Mind-Bending

Posted at 22:11h in Uncategorized by @artdetective

Shortly before midnight on Wednesday, I found myself in Times Square, standing in the rain, in the presence of several of the art world’s greats, like critic Roberta Smith and artists Louise Lawler, Marilyn Minter, and Laurie Simmons. We were all waiting to see Simmons’s latest...

20 Dec Giant Fabric Billboard Celebrating Romani People Lands in New York

Posted at 19:58h in Uncategorized by @sarahecascone

One of the stars of the 2022 Venice Biennale—and the first Roma artist ever to represent a country at one of the exhibition’s national pavilions—Poland’s Małgorzata Mirga-Tas is making her U.S. debut on New York’s High Line. The artist is known for transforming used clothing into...