Close Examination: Fakes, Mistakes, Discoveries at the National Gallery, London
By andrea kirsh | August 31, 2010 | 1 Comment
The most sensational aspect of the attribution of paintings as far as the general public is concerned is the subject of fakes, despite the fact that few art historians ever encounter them. What, exactly, is a fake? A painting that appears to be something other than what it is? Not always. Traditional academic training involved [...]
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Under An English Sky [Part I ] : Wolfgang Tillmans At The Serpentine Gallery, London
By matthew rose | August 26, 2010 | 0 Comments
I spent a week in London in August, and each day attempted to focus on a substantial outing, an interesting exhibition. My first jaunt was to cross Kensington Gardens to The Serpentine Gallery where the German artist Wolfgang Tillmans put on something of a retrospective, an expansive display of his alchemical results with photography. The [...]
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Extreme Painting at Joyce Yahouda
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | July 25, 2010 | 0 Comments
Extreme Painting has taken over Montreal. Sixteen galleries across the city have adopted the theme for the summer of 2010. While Division, Orange and Donald Browne galleries (among others) have opted for monumental proportions and excessive applications of paint, guest curator Nicolas Mavrikakis at Joyce Yahouda gallery has chosen a different route. Highlighting the work [...]
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Letter from Paris: White On White
By matthew rose | July 21, 2010 | 2 Comments
The white monochrome painting, once a joke –”cow in a snowstorm” – at other times a beacon heralding modernism (Malevich’s White on White, 1918) has carved out a serious place in the canon of aesthetics. Nearly every art movement over the last 150 years, if only a shake or a jitter, has paused long enough [...]
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Alex Marsolais at KAI Design Studio
By stefan zebrowski-rubin | July 10, 2010 | 1 Comment
The unveiling of Celsius, Alex Marsolais’s first collection of paintings, could not have been timed any better. Set in a cool refuge of KAI Design Studio, away from the sweltering heat wave of Montreal, some of the vividly textured canvases seemed to be melting. The untrained local artist presents a series of portraits of his [...]
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Ernesto Neto in London: The Edges of the World
By guest writer | July 7, 2010 | 1 Comment
Post by Judith Stein To get to The Edges of the World, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto’s extraordinary installation at London’s Hayward Gallery, you first have to find the Hayward. It is situated above street level in the cultural complex known as the South Bank Centre. You might approach it from the Thames walkway, mounting one [...]
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Traffic Jam: Pascale Marthine Tayou at Gare Saint Sauveur, Lille
By andrea kirsh | June 27, 2010 | 0 Comments
My travels this summer were plagued by museums undergoing restoration (the Stedelijk and Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and the Museum of Modern Art at Villeneuve d’Ascq, just outside Lille, with its great but little-known modernist collection) but a surprise was the new art facility created by the city of Lille last year at the 1861 cargo rail [...]
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Contemporary Art, Who Cares? A conference in Amsterdam
By andrea kirsh | June 25, 2010 | 6 Comments
Those who care for modern art and particularly for art produced since World War II face challenges unknown from their experience with earlier artwork; not only materials known to be impermanent (newspaper, latex, chocolate) or of unknown permanence (plastics, color photographs, felt-tip pen inks) but also working parts, intentionally ephemeral work, and pieces involving hardware, [...]
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Letter From Paris: Dynasty. A Feast Of Disney, Dust & Dinner
By matthew rose | June 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
The massive two-museum blast of Dynasty, an exhibition of 40 artists at the Palais de Tokyo and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, is something of a moveable feast of contemporary French art – a collision of dust and Disney with a bit of dinnertime thrown in. The concept, launched by directors [...]
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Sigmar Polke (1941-2010)
By matthew rose | June 11, 2010 | 0 Comments
Sigmar Polke (1941 – 2010), a German painter who for many recast pop art and revived painting in Europe, passed away on Friday, June 10. The artist who used Ben-Day dots, old etchings and even potatoes (for sculptures), brought a new vibrancy to painting and art making in the 1980s. His first New York show [...]
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