Category Archives: Art

Reviews: ‘The Week In Art’

The Week In Art Podcast (March 8, 2024): To coincide with International Women’s Day on 8 March, the South London Gallery is opening the exhibition Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest.

Activism and photography have long gone hand in hand but this collaborative exhibition, organised with the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), attempts to capture a new chapter in this distinguished history, with a particular focus on feminism across the world. We talk to Sarah Allen, the head of programme at the South London Gallery, and Fiona Rogers, the V&A’s Parasol Foundation curator of women in photography, about the show. The financier, philanthropist, collector and leader of cultural organisations Jacob Rothschild died last week at the age of 87.

We talk to Anna Somers Cocks, the founder of The Art Newspaper, who interviewed Lord Rothschild on numerous occasions, about his impact on the visual arts and heritage. And this episode’s Work of the Week is Adelphi, made in 1967 by Robert Ryman. It is one of around 50 pieces by Ryman in the exhibition The Act of Looking, which opened this week at the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris. Guillaume Fabius, the co-curator of the show, joins us to discuss the painting.

Acts of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms and the Art of Protest, South London Gallery, London, 8 March-9 June.

Robert Ryman: The Act of Looking, Musée de l’Orangerie, Paris, until 1 July.

Art Museum Exhibitions: The Harlem Renaissance & Transatlantic Modernism

The Met (March 8, 2024): Join Dr. Denise M. Murrell, Merryl H. and James S. Tisch Curator at Large in The Met’s Director’s Office, for a virtual tour of the groundbreaking exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism.

Through some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera, it will explore the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York City’s Harlem and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration when millions of African Americans began to move away from the segregated rural South.

The first art museum survey of the subject in New York City since 1987, the exhibition will establish the Harlem Renaissance and its radically new development of the modern Black subject as central to the development of international modern art.

On view February 25 – July 28, 2024.

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Art Exhibitions: ‘Matthew Wong & Vincent Van Gogh – Painting As A Last Resort’

Van Gogh Museum (March 4, 2024): The work of the Chinese-Canadian artist Matthew Wong (1984-2019) is dynamic, colourful, and expressive. Of the many artists who inspired him, Vincent van Gogh was the most significant.

The exhibition ‘Matthew Wong l Vincent van Gogh: Painting as a Last Resort’ invites you to discover more about Wong’s work and his artistic connection with Van Gogh. On view at the Van Gogh Museum from 1 March until 1 September 2024.

Art Exhibitions: American Abstract Expressionist Mark Rothko’s Paintings

CBS Sunday Morning (March 3, 2024): His abstract expressionist canvases are among the most recognizable of all 20th century artists’ works. But Mark Rothko (1903-1970) also produced nearly 3,000 pieces on paper – smaller in scale but just as innovative.

CBS News chief election & campaign correspondent Robert Costa visits an exhibition at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., that explores the trail of paper works the artist left behind, and talks with curator Adam Greenhalgh, and with the artist’s children, Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko, about Rothko’s remarkable vision.

Art Insider: An Engineer Reviews Turner’s “Rain, Steam And Speed” (1844)

The National Gallery (March 1, 2024): Is there engineering in art, as well as art in engineering? We look at Turner’s famous depiction of a steam train in ‘Rain, Steam and Speed’ and stormy seas in ‘Dutch Boats in a Gale’ (1801).

Rob Bell from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers gives us an engineer’s take on these two paintings at the National Gallery. The Institution of Mechanical Engineers was founded in 1847 and has over 100,000 members around the world.

Arts Preview: ARTFORUM Magazine – March 2024

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Paul Pfeiffer, Vitruvian Figure (detail), 2008

Artforum Magazine (March 1, 2024) – The latest issue features THE PURE PRODUCTS OF AMERICA GO CRAZY – Thomas Hirschhorn’s Fake It, Fake It – till you Fake It., 2023; ANTHONY LEPORE; PASSAGES –  PHILL NIBLOCK (1933–2024); TOP TENBRUCE LABRUCE and more…

SALON STYLE

Hurvin Anderson, Shear Cut, 2023, acrylic on paper on canvas, 84 3⁄4 × 92 1⁄4". From the series “Barbershop,” 2006–23.

Hurvin Anderson imagines the barbershop

HURVIN ANDERSON’S “BARBERSHOP” series belongs to a long tradition of painterly fascination with the spaces of social interaction that reflect both the physical realities and ideological aspirations of society at large. Anderson’s exhibition “Salon Paintings” at England’s Hastings Contemporary, organized in collaboration with the Hepworth Wakefield, also in England, and Kistefos Museum in Jevnaker, Norway, brings together a body of work he produced between 2006 and 2023 that portrays, albeit in the loosest sense of the word, men’s hair salons. 

“Time Travel: Italian Masters Through a Contemporary Lens”

“Time Travel: Italian Masters Through a Contemporary Lens”
View of “Time Travel: Italian Masters Through a Contemporary Lens,” 2023–24. From left: Ross Bleckner, Day and Night, Hour by Hour, 2023; Josephine Halvorson, Smiley Face, 2023. Photo: Jason Mandella.

Petzel Gallery | East 67th Street

By Donald Kuspit

“Time Travel: Italian Masters Through a Contemporary Lens,” a group exhibition that featured a selection of Renaissance paintings alongside works created by present-day artists, was a type of paragone, except that the debate was not whether painting or sculpture is the superior art form, but whether these historical pieces—executed at a time when grand themes and exquisite craft, among other criteria, determined their value—are better or worse than objects made by artists now, when such antiquated metrics seem well beside the point.

International Art: Apollo Magazine – March 2024

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Apollo Magazine (February 25, 2024): The new March 2024 issue features ‘How Italy remade Willem de Kooning’; Does the art world need gatekeepers?; Angelica Kauffman’s sentimental side…

In the studio with… Manuel Mathieu

The Haitian-Canadian artist surrounds himself with unlikely objects to spark his imagination, books about drawing, and about 25 different types of tea

The clockwork marvels that tell a tale of two empires

These timepieces are fluttering, chiming embodiments of how Britain and China traded with each other in the 18th and 19th centuries

Reel life – how Zineb Sedira found herself through film

At the Whitechapel Gallery, the French-Algerian unspools personal and political histories through imitation sets and empty stages

Arts & Culture: Aesthetica Magazine-Feb/March 2024

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Aesthetica Magazine (February 2, 2024) The February/March 2024 issue features ‘Perception is Everything’. This issue recognises agents of change. Throughout history, art has influenced societies, challenged norms, questioned the status quo, raised awareness and prompted new perspectives.

The artists in this issue embody this notion. We speak with Tania Franco Klein about her distinct style, which is realised through cinematic photographs. She surveys present-day anxieties and effects of media overstimulation. Meanwhile, Cristóbal Ascencio’s work and research focuses on the relationship between images and memory. He looks at how experience can be appropriated between generations. Kaya & Blank is a photographic duo that explores the way that humans inhabit the world, pushing the boundaries of how reality is presented. Tara Donovan, featured in When Forms Come Alive, opening at the Hayward Gallery, London, this winter, is one of 21 artists in an exhibition that reclaims space in an increasingly digitised world. It spans 60 years of contemporary sculpture and shows works that trigger a physical response.

In photography we traverse continents with an extraordinary range of practitioners, including Derrick O. Boateng, Ibai Acevedo, Jonathan Knowles, Tom Hegen and Neil Burnell. Our cover duo, Tropico Photo, offers pop colours and urban cool. Finally, the Last Words go to Yannis Davy Guibinga.

International Art: Apollo Magazine – February 2024

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Apollo Magazine (January 29, 2024): The new February 2024 issue features ‘Giants of Indian Miniature Painting’; The Crisis in Italian Paintings and more…

• Holidaying with the Habsburgs

• An interview with Julie Mehretu

• The crisis in Italian museums

• Howard Hodgkin’s Indian miniatures

Plus: Slim pickings for foodies on Valentine’s Day, Parma’s monumental museum complex, and  – and reviews of Impressionists on paper, experimental art in the Eastern bloc, and Africa and Byzantium at the Met

Museum Tour: ‘European Paintings – 1300 To 1800’ At The Met In New York City

The Met (January 19, 2024): Join curators Stephan Wolohojian, Adam Eaker, David Pullins, and Anna-Claire Stinebring along with their special guests as they guide you through the newly reopened galleries dedicated to European Paintings from 1300 to 1800.

The reconfigured galleries highlight fresh narratives and dialogues among more than 700 works of art from the Museum’s world-famous holdings, which include recently acquired paintings and prestigious loans, as well as select sculptures and decorative art, showcase the interconnectedness of cultures, materials, and moments across The Met collection.