Visual Arts
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.
In New York, museums and galleries are racing toward a new normal, whatever that might be. Most exhibitions that opened earlier in the year will stay open into the summer.
This is an important book, a powerful account of the decline of California as America’s paradise.
There’s a looseness, a jagged brio that gives the images in ¡Printing the Revolution! a visual bang — a kind of primal pop.
Museums, now reopened in New York, are trying to coax visitors into their galleries. With two exhibitions, it’s working.
All four budgets that Donald Trump and his sycophants sent to Congress had nada for the arts and humanities.
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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