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.
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Arts Preview: ARTFORUM Magazine – March 2024
SALON STYLE
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”
Petzel Gallery | East 67th Street
“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
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
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
• 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 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.
Exhibitions: ‘New Terrains- Native American Art’ (2024)
The exhibition provides context for the evolution of contemporary Native art, including the influence of modernism, post-war, and pop art.
New Terrains: Contemporary Native American Art New York Exhibition 5–23 January
Join the pair as they reveal works by Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Fritz Scholder (Luiseño), Edgar Heap of Birds (Cheyenne and Arapaho Nation), and more.
Art Museum Exhibitions: ‘Nicolas de Staël’ In Paris
Twenty years after the one organised by the Centre Pompidou in 2003, this exhibition offers a fresh look at the artist’s work, drawing on more recent thematic exhibitions that have highlighted certain little-known aspects of his career (Antibes in 2014, Le Havre in 2014, Aix-en-Provence in 2018).
Art: Photographer Wayne Parsons’ “Imagined Images”
He was a late-comer to photography, buying his first camera when he turned forty and studying black-and-white technique at the International Center of Photography. His interests expanded to color imagery when he adopted digital photography in 2001.
He also reviews photography exhibitions for the New York Photo Review. He is a long-time member and past president of Soho Photo Gallery.
Explore more of Wayne’s work on his website at https://www.rwayneparsons.com/.
Elton John’s ‘Exuberant Art’ Collection In Atlanta
In 1991 when Sir Elton John bought a duplex-apartment at Park Place on Peachtree Road in Atlanta’s coveted Buckhead neighbourhood, he couldn’t have imagined the extent to which the city would transform him personally and professionally.
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