It’s past the holiday, but our Paris correspondent, Matthew Rose, offers up a story from his childhood, one in which the hero has an obsession with a Halloween costume that triggers an identity crisis. Happily, the hero solves the crisis.
Read MoreSome subjects touch a nerve. The idea of “too much art” propelled our friend and former Paris correspondent, Matthew Rose, to write about his own art, of which thousands of pieces have been shown and stored and sold and traded and given away.
Read MoreMatthew Rose reviews Julie J. Thomson’s new book of interviews with late mail artist Ray Johnson. What emerges is an affectionately-rendered composite image of an elusive man whose whimsical patterns of speech and thought closely mirrored his approach to making work.
Read MoreMuch like Philadelphia, Prague is a city known for its rich tradition of public artworks. Here Artblog’s Paris correspondent, Matthew Rose, takes a trip to the Czech Republic’s bustling capital to tour its monuments, murals and statuary. While some works seem tailor made for the social media age, for Rose the city’s history of social and political turmoil looms large.
Read MoreArtblog’s Paris correspondent, Matthew Rose, takes a trip to Florence and visits the Basilica di Santa Croce. The site of a recent tragedy involving falling debris, this neo-gothic church is also notable as the final resting place of some of Europe’s greatest minds. Here Matthew sits with death, and with the basilica’s impressive collection of Christian art.
Read MoreArtblog’s Paris correspondent, Matthew Rose, is back with a review of Steven Rifkin’s retrospective at Les Douches La Galerie. Comprised of square format black and white photographs from the 1970s and 80s, this show reveals Rifkin as a master observer of form both natural and man-made. “Steven Rifkin: Au Fil du Temps” was on view January 20th – March 3rd, 2018.
Read MoreMatthew Rose visits Florence, Italy, once home to Leonardo, Raphael, Michelangelo, and, for the last 20 years, home to Clet, the French sticker artist whose “canvas” is the city street signs. Clet alters street signs with charming interventions that the city pretty much leaves up. Matthew rounds up pictures and writes about the artist’s many interventions.
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