Visual Arts
Television artist Bob Ross just wanted to share his love of painting with viewers. His business partners had other ideas.
It’s hard to adequately describe what a momentous exhibition this is.
Dull, flat, and boring, with no discernible personality, the Olympics 2020 graphics made no impact on anyone other than, perhaps, its creator/developers and maybe a (very) few members of the host committee.
The painter Albert Pinkham Ryder points a way towards materials, not just as a means or a substrate, but as a phenomenology, as a basis for a reflective life.
This wonderfully eclectic show is a post-pandemic invitation to forge new connections and open up fresh conversations.
Recently, a number of public artworks have been charged with memorializing ghosts or “specters” of the past.
“Figures of Speech” is a kind of aesthetic/political injection: its messages are put across by pieces that seamlessly blend a number of genres, including sculpture, music, graphics, and film.
Overall, “Remember the Ladies” is a love letter to an era and to a cheerful vision of painting.
Last week, just a month after the publication of Loot in the US, the Met in New York announced that it was returning two Benin Bronzes to Nigeria.
Visual Arts Commentary: “The Scream,” “Sunflowers,” and the “Mona Lisa” — Gone Baby Gone
Perhaps we need to call on Sherlock Holmes in order to resolve the 31-year old “no end in sight” Gardner heist?
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