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Shuang Li shows how wild weather mirrors our fractured world - The Art Newspaper - International art news and events
1+ hour, 44+ min ago (264+ words) There's a particular quality in Shuang Li's work that I find hard to look away from," says Mohamed Almusibli, the director and chief curator of Kunsthalle Basel. She doesn't illustrate ideas about technology and media; she makes us, the viewers,…...
Van Gogh's wheatfields "under turbulent skies'
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (930+ words) Van Gogh's Wheatfield with Crows (July 1890) Adventures with Van Gogh'is a weekly blog by Martin Bailey,'The Art Newspaper's long-standing correspondent and expert on the Dutch painter. Published on Fridays, stories range from newsy items about this most intriguing artist,…...
Paris exhibition explores the vanishing worlds of photographer Madeleine de Sin'ty
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (194+ words) The Art Newspaper De Sin'ty was born in 1934, to an aristocratic family whose ancestral seat was the Chateau de Valmer in the Loire Valley. They fell on hard times and the castle burned down in 1948. After studying applied arts in…...
The Phillips Collection receives largest gift in museum's history
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (265+ words) When I arrived, it was clear that the Phillips had extraordinary assets'a world-class collection, a singular and prescient founder's vision, an intimate and beloved physical presence, and a deeply committed community of supporters," Binstock tells The Art Newspaper. What we…...
New photography museum in Cincinnati foregrounds the medium's democratic power
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (244+ words) With this mix of regional and foreign materials, Garcia nods to histories of art, architecture and the region alike. "Once you walk inside, it's very warm and welcoming, which is the idea of the institution," Garcia says. "It belongs to…...
Photographs of Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson's shared studio go on show in London
1+ week, 3+ day ago (179+ words) The Art Newspaper Black-and-white images taken by Paul Laib are being exhibited at the Courtauld Gallery Around 150 images by Laib relate specifically to Hepworth and Nicholson, among the 22, 000 glass-plate negatives gifted to the Courtauld in 1974 by Patrick de Laszlo, whose…...
Mapplethorpe nudes, the NEA and the birth of America's culture wars
1+ week, 5+ day ago (91+ words) The cove of The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars by Isaac Butler " Isaac Butler, The Perfect Moment: God, Sex, Art, and the Birth of America's Culture Wars, Bloomsbury Publishing, 384pp, $32 (hb) The culture wars…...
Rediscovered Leonora Carrington painting to go on show for the first time at London's Freud Museum
2+ week, 4+ day ago (436+ words) Leonora Carrington's psychiatrist Dr Luis Morales holding the painting she gave to him, Villa Pilar (1940) Villa Pilar'was made in 1940 while Carrington was a patient at the Morales sanatorium located outside Santander in northern Spain. The artist was admitted to the…...
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts gifted collection of nearly 2, 000 photographs
2+ week, 4+ day ago (127+ words) Stephen Shore, U. S. 10, Post Falls, Idaho, August 25, 1974, 1974, printed later Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Joy of Giving Something Inc. Alfred Stieglitz, Music No. 1, 1922 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Gift of Joy of Giving Something Inc. Evelyn Hofer, Girl with…...
AI debate erupts over "colourised" version of a classic Ansel Adams photo
2+ week, 4+ day ago (218+ words) The offending "colourised" version of Ansel Adams's Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico (1941), created by the gallerist James Danziger using AI In a statement sent to The Art Newspaper, Aipad says that it is aware of the situation and that it is…...