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WEBArt Lovers Movie Club: Tamara Henderson, ‘Green in the Grooves’, 2021–2023. ArtReview Art Lovers Movie Club 12 September 2024. Welcome to Art Lovers Movie Club, where you’ll find a selection of artists’ videos available exclusively online at artreview.com.
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 Return of Magic in Art - ArtReview
WEBMay 30, 2022 · Michael M. Hughes, ‘Hex Putin’ sigil, 2022. II. But the last decade has seen a shift of attention in contemporary art: magic, mysticism and spirituality, animism, the figure of the witch, the medium and the shaman, have all made a return to the art mainstream in the work of contemporary artists and thematic shows produced by contemporary …
Issey Miyake: a Pioneer for Fashion at the Vanguard of Art, …
WEBAug 15, 2022 · Born Kazunaru Miyake in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1938, he was seven-years old when, while cycling to school on 6 August 1945, US forces detonated an atomic bomb, devastating the city. Over 60 years later, writing in an op-ed for The New York Times in 2009, Miyake described how his mother, who had suffered serious burns, continued to …
Annie Leibovitz: “I’m Just a Photographer” - ArtReview
WEBNov 11, 2019 · Annie Leibovitz. The Early Years, 1970 – 1983, Archive Project No. 1 and Wonderland, 2022 (installation view). ©️ Annie Leibovitz.Photo: Kitmin Lee. Courtesy Hauser & Wirth Hong Kong. I wanted with that show, and with the subsequent shows at Hauser & Wirth [a version of the Hong Kong exhibition was presented at Hauser & Wirth …
What Power Does the Word ‘Cunt’ Still Hold? - ArtReview
WEBJun 19, 2023 · Marilyn Minter, My Cunt-ry 'Tis of Thee (still), 2018, HD video. Courtesy the artist and Simon Lee Gallery. The once obscene word is now transcending censorship to enter the mainstream via queer communities around the world, revealing the shifting power of language in the digital age. In the English language, ‘cunt’ is a wildcard.
Richard Serra, Beyond Minimalism, 1938–2024 - ArtReview
WEBMar 28, 2024 · Richard Serra’s death, at the age of 85, not only brings to closure his ‘life-time involvement’ in sculpture but also signals the end of a stellar generation of North American artists – Eva Hesse, Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt – whose work was distinctly and determinedly post-minimalist. Each of them, in their own way, comprehended the ...
What Should Contemporary Art Do for a Society? - ArtReview
WEBApr 28, 2023 · This kind of contemporary art demands from a society curiosity and openness for the new; at times it might even demand that we leave our comfort zone in order to experience new perspectives or new spheres of thought. This perception of art does not happen overnight but over years; it requires access, exposure and an open …
Brigitte Kowanz, 1957–2022 - ArtReview
WEBFeb 2, 2022 · Austrian artist Brigitte Kowanz has died aged 64. Kowanz began making work in the 1980s, in a field of art dominated by men, which investigated the relationships between light and space, and language and code. In 2017 she represented Austria at the Venice Biennale alongside Erwin Wurm, for which she created an installation of wall …
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 ...