There is much to praise from Ghana, India, France, and a stunning international pavilion. Less admirable is a true horror on the Arsenale…
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Banksy and the tradition of destroying art
Preminda Jacob, University of Maryland, Baltimore County When the British street artist Banksy shredded his “Girl With Balloon” after it was purchased for US$1.4 million at Sotheby’s, did he know how the art world would react? Did he anticipate that the critics would claim that the work, in its partially shredded state, would climb in […]
Paul Nash painted in the trenches – and I did the same in Afghanistan
A new Paul Nash show, “the largest … for a generation”, is now open at London’s Tate Britain. It is appropriate timing in this period of World War I memorialising – Paul Nash is one of the UK’s best-known modern artists, an illustrator who turned to oils to produce some of the most iconic images of the world wars.
Η μεγάλη γιορτή του Bauhaus
Το Πανεπιστήμιο του Harvard προαναγγέλλει μια μεγάλη έκθεση για το Bauhaus με μια εξαιρετική χειρονομία. Παρέχει, εδώ και μερικές μέρες, δωρεάν πρόσβαση στο αρχείο της συλλογής Bauhaus μέσα από τη διαδικτυακή του πλατφόρμα
The Louvre’s missing pyramid and the magic of trompe l’oeil
Muralist JR has cast a spell over the Paris museum’s glass canopy in a work that recalls the Renaissance’s eye-fooling tricks. Now can we have one for the Shard?
Tom Froese: απλότητα, χιούμορ και ευφυΐα
Τα σχέδια του Καναδού designer και εικονογράφου Tom Froese, τα συναντά κάποιος στις σελίδες ορισμένων από τα σημαντικότερα περιοδικά της εποχής και στις καλύτερες ψηφιακές εκδόσεις για το σύγχρονο design. Στις εικονογραφήσεις και τα σχέδια του, η αγάπη του για το χρώμα συνδυάζεται με την απλότητα, το λεπτό χιούμορ και τις ευφυείς ιδέες.
Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom
This transformational era will be represented through 230 powerful and compelling masterworks (individual objects and groups of objects) in the major international exhibition Ancient Egypt Transformed: The Middle Kingdom, opening October 12 at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Real Lives Captured
Sculptures portraying working-class Americans and overlooked members of society are on display at the Serpentine Sackler Gallery in London. U.S. artist Duane Hanson started creating the realistic figures in the late 1960s. Interaction between the artworks, uncannily lifelike, and gallery visitors remains part of the appeal. The London exhibit is the largest British show of […]
Masterpieces of The Met
Founded in 1870, and one of the architectural glories of New York City, the Met stretches four blocks along Fifth Avenue with over two million objects under one roof.
Takis, Champs magnétiques (magnetics fields)
True to its mission to present art from France across all generations, the Palais de Tokyo continues its exploration into the interstices between art and the sciences by paying tribute to the great sculptor and inventor Takis who will turn 90 in 2015.
Alexanndros Vasmoulakis – Flamboyant creatures
Pompous theatrical figures dance in the rhythm of a hubbub to unravel the promiscuous narrative that is unfettered by the laws of reason.