Author Archives: jolanta
Tarsila do Amaral: Inventing Modern Art in Brazil
Tarsila do Amaral: InventingModern Art in Brazil “I want to be the painter of my country,” Tarsila do Amaral. Her signature style was sensuous, vibrant landscapes and everyday scenes. Publisher NY Art Magazine: Abraham Lubelski
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NYC ART FAIRS MARCH 2018
The Armory Show March 8 – 11, 2018 New York, NY NYC Art Fairs March 2018 The New York City Art Fairs for March is referred to as Armory Week. See Art Fairs listed below. The Armory Show March 8 – 11, 2018 CLIO Art Fair March 8 – 11, 2018 Spring Break Art Show […]
Guantanamo art in NYC makes Washington nervous
“Untitled (Alan Kurdi)” [Courtesy of Muhammad Ansi/John Jay College]
Art Invades North Korea
The Ethan Cohen Gallery is presenting Mina Cheon’s solo exhibition UMMA : MASS GAMES – Motherly Love North Korea, curated by Nadim Samman, and sending art to North Korea. The exhibition takes place during a time when there has been a war of words between North Korean and U.S. leaders. With this exhibition, Cheon establishes […]
Guggenheim Bilbao celebrates 20th birthday with Bill Viola
Retrospective honours US artist who sparked museum’s commitment to video art A major Bill Viola retrospective opening today (30 June) at the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao marks the US video artist’s “special connection” to the museum, says its director Juan Ignacio Vidarte. He describes the show, which runs until 9 November, as a highlight of the […]
Keep IT Alive
Keep IT Alive is an exhibition of Alan Vega’s final work, a suite of haunting large-scale paintings he had completed just before his death in July, 2016. The paintings, each composed of a central figure (often disfigured, deformed, or viewed askance) and presented against an obscured and chaotic backdrop, are an extension of the small-scale, […]
‘Remembering the Twin Towers on The New Yorker’ at the 9/11 Memorial Museum
About the Exhibit “Cover Stories: Remembering the Twin Towers on The New Yorker” is an exhibition of 33 covers from the weekly news and culture magazine spanning more than four decades of the evolving New York City skyline. The exhibition takes visitors through the magazine’s depictions of the city’s experience as the Twin Towers […]
Why Old Women Have Replaced Young Men as the Art World’s Darlings
Shared via Artsy | Artsy Editorial By Anna Louie Sussman Alex Logsdail, international director of Lisson Gallery, remembers the first time his father encountered Carmen Herrera’s work. It was 2008, and the painter Tony Bechara had brought some of her canvases to London for the Pinta art fair. None of them sold, says Logsdail, but […]
