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Jerry Saltz Has a Pulitzer and I Have Questions
And one of those is: What if Roberta had won?
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People will soon be doing graffiti in augmented reality, and no one knows how to police it
The next trend in street art will be graffiti in augmented reality.
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The Rise of the Made-for-Instagram Museum
The age of Instagram has given rise to a new genre of installations, which seem to exist only to produce the perfect photo.
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8 Artist Statements We Love – The Art League Blog
Artist statements don't have to be a source of fear (for the writer) and boredom (for the reader)! Here are eight of our favorites and why they work.
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Artist Embroiders X-Rays And It’s Beautiful And Creepy At The Same Time
Artist Matthew Cox from Philadelphia, USA, creates fun embroidery art on monochrome radiographs. He uses colorful threads to brighten the transparent film. Flowers, superheroes, pop culture icons and even classics from Greek mythology come to life in his
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Investigating the Drying Process of Acrylic Color and Gel Medium | Just Paint
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In Search of the "Big Technique": Alex Katz on Why Artists Should Stick to a Style in a Changing Art World
In an interview with his close friend Robert Storr, the painter delves into his influences and philosophy in this excerpt from the expanded edition of Phaidon's monograph Alex Katz.
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Should We Stop Using The Term 'Outsider Art'? | HuffPost
Why are we calling community-oriented black artists like Kevin Sampson "outsiders"?
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Like it or not, we are in the midst of a second arts revolution
Like it or not, we are in the midst of the biggest arts-and-culture revolution since the printing press. This one takes culture out of the hands of the critics and the creators.
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Why You Should Aim for 100 Rejections a Year
Last year, I got rejected 43 times by literary magazines, residencies, and fellowships—my best record since I started shooting for getting 100 rejections per year. It’s harder than it sounds, but a…
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Stefania Bortolami on How Smaller Galleries Can Survive the Age of the Mega-Gallery
The Italian dealer is experimenting with some radical new models, and other gallerists might be wise to pay attention.
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How to Be an Artist, According to Paul Klee
When Klee hosted classes in his home, he often required that students spend time observing the movements of the tropical fish in his large aquarium.
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Phyllida Barlow on representing Britain at the Venice Biennale... and living in a slum
'Welcome to the slum,' says the British sculptor Phyllida Barlow, ushering me into her terraced Victorian townhouse in Finsbury Park, north London.
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These Women Were Missing from Your Art History Books
From Italian Baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi to Japanese-American post-war sculptor Ruth Asawa, a new book celebrates these unsung heroes of art.
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Notes to myself: Diebenkorn’s 10 rules for painting | Blog | Royal Academy of Arts
Sometime in his later career, Diebenkorn wrote down ten points of artistic intention. Sharing them here, we also begin a new series of notes, asking artists to share their own creative wisdom.
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The Tyranny of Art History in Contemporary Art
Its terms are so specialized and vague they're only useful to those in the know.
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The Most Iconic Artists of the 1980s Search Home Museums Artists Articles Show Guide Art Fairs Galleries Auctions Artists Artworks Shows Galleries Museums Fairs Auctions Magazine More Artists Artworks Shows Galleries Museums Fairs Auctions Magazine About Artsy Artsy for Galleries Artsy for Museums Artsy for Auctions Artsy for Education The Art Genome Project Life at Artsy Jobs Press Contact Artsy Log in Sign up The Most Iconic Artists of the 1980s Brush up on art history with our series on the artists and movements that defined each decade. Artsy Editorial By George Philip LeBourdais Aug 17th, 2015 10:57 pm Cindy Sherman Untitled Film Still #45 , 1979 "America is Hard to See," at Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2015) Jeff Koons Rabbit , 1986 Kunstmuseum Basel The 1980s was a decade of meteoric growth, both for the global economic system and for the art world that swung in its orbit. Cocaine, MTV, the personal computer, the collapse of state-sponsored socialism: these were heady times for the neoliberal regimes installed in Deng Xiaoping’s China, Margaret Thatcher’s Great Britain, and Ronald Reagan’s United States. In this atmosphere of accelerating modernization, everything began to serve the interest of profit. Whether the modernism peddled by art critic Clement Greenberg was dead or just demoded remained a topic of debate, but imagery of any kind could now be repurposed for the auction block. In his landmark 1984 text Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism , American critic Frederic Jameson neatly summarized the spirit of the age. So long, grand historical narratives , his text announced; hello, consumerist desire . As one of the most desirable and symbolic commodities, art slid easily into bed with business. Galleries multiplied in the established centers of Basel, New York, Paris, Cologne, and Düsseldorf, while new art fairs and biennials blossomed in Chicago, Stockholm, Madrid, Amsterdam, London, and Milan. Artistic strategies to navigating this new marketplace, however, were more ambivalent. They can be slotted into two primary positions: Neo-Conceptualism , which grew from Minimalism and Conceptualism to embrace techniques of photography and appropriation; and Neo-Expressionism , which exhumed the traditional notions of painting that had been stamped out by Modernism—only to represent them as a corpse. The Pictures Generation Barbara Kruger Untitled (Your body is a battleground) , 1989 "The Inaugural Installation" at The Broad, Los Angeles Richard Prince Untitled (Fashion) , 1982-1984 Gagosian Gallery Bridging the late ’70s and early ’80s, the Pictures Generation—named for an important exhibition of their work held in 1977 at Artists Space in New York—characterized the Neo-Conceptualist gambit. Artists like Barbara Kruger , Cindy Sherman , Sarah Charlesworth , and Sherrie Levine were not photographers per se; they culled and modified existing photographs to reveal the consumerist and paternalistic ideologies that produced the images in the first place. Kruger’s Untitled (When I hear the word culture I take out my checkbook) from 1985 presents its critique while skipping between humor and horror. The screwball face of the familiar puppet Howdy Doody (along with small text at lower right ventriloquizing “We mouth your words”) may seem at worst a comically unsettling black-and-white picture. But upon discovering the source of the text angled across the frame—a riff on a line from a play by the Nazi-era sympathizer Hans Johst, “Whenever I hear the word ‘Culture,’ I reach for my revolver”—the work begins to feel more like a ransom note. An appropriation in which an image is copied and repurposed, the poster-sized silver gelatin print sold for nearly a million dollars at auction in 2011, rendering its irony complete. Through a series of 69 photographic self portraits, Sherman’s “Untitled Film Stills” interrogates the image of female stereotypes in popular culture. While the artist may resist the reception of this work as an exploration
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Why Contemporary art is obsessed with the politics of race, gender and ethnicity
“Remember When Art Was Supposed to Be Beautiful?” A response to Wall Street Journal article by Sohrab Ahmari located here. “When all culture is reduced to group identity and griev…
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In A Time Of Political And Spiritual Repression, Must Art Become More Political? Not Necessarily... | The Huffington Post
“But among the greatest enemies of the arts are the enemies that lie within, in the arts community’s seemingly liberal demand that all discourse be reaso...
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A Whitney Biennial Curator Defends Dana Schutz's Painting | artnet News
Christopher Lew, co-curator of the 2017 Biennial, explains why Dana Schutz's Emmett Till portrait is indispensable to the show.
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A Janitor Preserves the Seized Belongings of Migrants
Tom Kiefer’s detailed, exuberant photos of objects seized by Customs and Border Protection agents are now collected in a series titled “El Sueño Americano.”
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11 Female Art Professors and Teachers Talk About Their Favorite Female Artists
The second volume in our series where women talk about women.
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Nazis, New York, and Max Beckmann
What New York gave Beckmann was not superficial subject matter, but inspiration in the form of energy.
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See the Most Exciting Artists in America Today | artnet News
There is no shortage of dynamic artists in the United States to pay attention to right now, and that's a great thing.
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“Neither Flesh nor Fleshless”
What’s great about Rothko’s paintings is their refutation of language, the way they push back against conclusions.
