Tag Archives: Arts & Culture
Culture: The New Review Magazine – Dec 11, 2022
@ObsNewReview December 11, 2022 – Those we lost in 2022:
- Robbie Coltrane remembered by Miriam Margolyes
- Norma Waterson by @RichardHawley
- André Leon Talley by @NaomiCampbell
- Jamal Edwards by @professorgreen
- Cherry Valentine by @biminibabes
- Pharoah Sanders by @KamasiW
- & more @misskatiepeters
Hilma af Klint: A Biography by Julia Voss review – portrait of the painter as a mystic
The Swedish abstract artist who conversed with the dead is described as a woman years ahead of her time in this scholarly, sympathetic study
My Life in Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler review – the joys of jellyfish, sturgeon and whales
The gifted science writer’s lyrical collection doesn’t always flow smoothly between reverie and fact, but remains intriguing
Culture: The New Review Magazine – Dec 4, 2022
@ObsNewReview – December 4, 2022 issue:
American photographer Nan Goldin on conquering her opioid addiction and taking on the Sackler dynasty Interview by Sean O’Hagan.
On my radar: @davidshrigley
What broke Made.com? by @ameliargh
Does religious faith lead to a happier life? By @d_a_robson
Q&A with @aj_vasan by @AmmarKalia2
And our critics on the week’s arts highlights
Arts & Culture: The New Criterion – December 2022
Inside the December 2022 issue:
Art a special section
Memories of Clement Greenberg by Pat Lipsky
A library by the book by James Panero
Tudors at the Met by Marco Grassi
Collecting misery by Anthony Daniels
David Smith: a sculptor in full by Eric Gibson
The Spanish Sargent by Karen Wilkin
Pergolesi: a very sharp & mechanical man by Benjamin Riley
New poems by Bruce Bond & John Poch
Culture: The New Review Magazine – Nov 6, 2022
Inside the November 6, 2022 Issue:
TS Eliot’s women: the unsung female voices of The Waste Land
Dylan: The Greatest Thing I’ll Never Learn review – messy, punky pop thrills
The week in theatre: Tammy Faye; Hamlet; Marvellous – review
The best recent crime and thriller writing
The best recent crime and thriller writing
Preview: The Burlington Magazine – Nov 2022
The Parthenon sculptures
It is now forty years since Melina Mercouri, the Greek Minister for Culture from 1981 to 1989, famous also as a film star and singer, addressed UNESCO’s World Conference on Cultural Policies to draw international attention to the campaign with which she would be identified until her death in 1994, the repatriation to Athens of the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum. ‘We are not asking for the return of a painting or a statue’, she said: ‘We are asking for the return of a portion of a unique monument, the privileged symbol of a whole culture’.
The Painters of Pompeii
As images, ancient Roman wall paintings command attention for their bold compositions, vibrant and saturated colours, convincing naturalism and the fantastical mythologies they depict. As objects they also captivate for the dramatic circumstances surrounding their near- destruction, the miracle (or rarity) of their survival and the alchemical nature of lime plaster and pigment.
Previews: The New Yorker Magazine – Oct 31, 2022
Will Sanctions Against Russia End the War in Ukraine?
D.C. bureaucrats have worked stealthily with allies to open a financial front against Putin.
How Samuel Adams Helped Ferment a Revolution
A virtuoso of the eighteenth-century version of viral memes and fake news, he had a sense of political theatre that helped create a radical new reality.
Sergio García Sánchez’s “Old Haunts”
The artist discussed Día de todos los santos and taking inspiration from the Old Masters.
By Françoise Mouly, Art by Sergio García Sánchez
Previews: Art In America Magazine – October 2022
DISABILITY CULTURE SO FAR
A 40-year timeline of disability art and moments that make up a movement.
THE EXCHANGE: SCIENCE FICTIONS
by American Artist with Lou Cornum
An artist and a sci-fi scholar share their esteem for novelist Octavia Butler, who extrapolated future worlds from troubled times.
HARD TRUTHS: MIC DROP
by Chen & Lampert
Artist-curators Howie Chen and Andrew Lampert offer advice on karaoke and other forms of art world hobnobbing.
There have been very few issues of art magazines devoted to disability. There ought to be more. As Art in America associate editor Emily Watlington, who took the lead on this issue, writes in her essay “Our Work Is Working,” disabled artists have been crucial to progress in disability justice and the art world in general, whether through storytelling, empathy-building, or outright activism. These artists place disability where it belongs: at the heart of creativity itself.
Previews: The American Scholar – Autumn 2022
The Root Problem
Harvesting wild ginseng has sustained Appalachian communities for generations—so what will happen when there are no more plants to be found?
The Degradation Drug
A medication prescribed for Parkinson’s and other diseases can transform a patient’s personality, unleashing heroic bouts of creativity or a torrent of shocking, even criminal behavior
Why We Are Failing to Make the Grade
Covid-19 has contributed to a crisis in America’s classrooms, but the problems predate the pandemic and are likely to outlast it
International Art: Apollo Magazine – September 2022
• Jil Sander refashions the English garden in Hamburg
• Annette Messager on the art of making the strange familiar
• A dazzling Medici table-top in focus
• On Jeju Island, the Hawaii of South Korea
Plus: the restored Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Inigo Jones’s Banqueting House, Joseph Wright of Derby’s brush with the divine, and reviews of Cézanne in Chicago, Milton Avery in London and a history of fancy dress
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