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WEBArtReview September 2024 Issue Out Now. ArtReview Previews 03 September 2024. Featuring Bouchra Khalili, Françoise Vergès and Marguerite Duras; columns on the museum as a place both of remembering and repression; reviews from around the world; an original comic strip; and much more.
The Artist as Architect: Robert Smithson’s Visionary Designs
WEBSep 10, 2021 · Exhibited alongside collages of maps, studies of geological formations in film and photography, and drawings of unrealised public sculptures, they reveal interests in monumentalism and ecology that prefigure the Land art he would pioneer in the following decade. Robert Smithson, Drawing for Shift, 1967, pencil …
NFTs Aren’t Just for Crypto Bros: Meet the Artists Resisting the Hype
WEBApr 13, 2022 · Sarah Friend, Lifeform #3 (detail), 2021 (installation view, Proof of Stake – Technological Claims, 2021, Kunstverein in Hamburg).Courtesy the artist. Sarah Friend by Rhea Myers. Artists’ engagement with blockchain technology predates the first NFT, which is generally regarded as new-media artist Kevin McCoy’s Quantum (2014), a digital image with its ownership registered using the ...
The Return of Rococo in Contemporary Culture - ArtReview
WEBNov 8, 2022 · Three centuries later, and we are ripe for a return to rococo. In its original incarnation, it was a style characterised by lightness, asymmetric curves and an overabundance of natural motifs; particularly seashells and acanthus leaves. The word ‘rococo’ comes from the French ‘rocaille’, rock-like, alluding to the eighteenth-century ...
How Lawrence Weiner (1942–2021) Reimagined What Art Could Be
WEBDec 10, 2021 · The three parts of his famous 1968 artist’s statement read: ‘1. The artist may construct the piece; 2. The piece may be fabricated; 3. The piece need not be built.’. Yet Weiner both redefined ‘building’ and delegated it. If you read one of his wall texts, either in a gallery or on an architectural façade – ‘A bit beyond /what is ...
Arturo Luz, pioneer of Filipino modernism, 1926–2021
WEBJun 1, 2021 · Arturo Luz, pioneer of Filipino modernism, 1926–2021. ArtReview News 01 June 2021 artreview.com. Arturo Luz, Candle Vendors, 1952–1954, oil on canvas, 77 x 123 cm. Working alongside a group of likeminded forward thinkers, Arturo Luz revolutionised art in the Philippines. A founder of the Neo-realist school, his work included painting ...
‘The Book of Elsewhere’ by Keanu Reeves and China ... - ArtReview
WEBAug 1, 2024 · In the interim, acclaimed British ‘weird fiction’ author China Miéville has stepped in to spin off his take on Reeves’s unstoppable (but inevitably sensitive, world-weary and introspective) killing machine. Miéville has clearly enjoyed the challenge, exploiting the comic’s dilated historical space between our hero’s current gig with ...
Julian Schnabel - ArtReview
WEBJulian Schnabel. Jonathan T.D. Neil Reviews 07 May 2013 ArtReview. The Patients and the Doctors, 1978, oil, plates, Bondo on wood. Collection of the artist. It’s hard to divorce Julian Schnabel from context. Indeed context is both the curse and blessing that has come to define the artist’s work and career over the last 35 years. That barrel ...
Ghislaine Leung: The Porous Boundaries of Parenthood
WEBOct 12, 2022 · Balances at Maxwell Graham / Essex Street, New York positions the work of the artist with the constant compromise of maternal responsibilities. Parenthood has shaken up Ghislaine Leung’s practice. Where before her work strove to illuminate and critique the constructed neutrality of art institutions, Balances would suggest Leung has shifted to examine the implications of agency in the ...
Abraham Palatnik, 1929–2020 - ArtReview
WEBMay 11, 2020 · Abraham Palatnik, a pioneer of kinetic art, has died. The Brazilian artist first came to prominence when his work Aparelho Cinecromático (Kinechromatic Device, 1949) was included in the 1st Bienal de São Paulo in 1951. Featuring 600 metres of electric wires linking 101 lamps of various voltages, together with several coloured cylinders rotating at varying speeds, the multimedia installation ...