Tag Archives: Arts & Literature

Cover Preview: Art Review Magazine – October 2022

In ArtReview’s October issue – out now – Chris Fite-Wassilak profiles Jeffrey Gibson, the artist whose works unpick and repattern mythologies around the depiction of native cultures: ‘Dolled up in intricate beadwork and bright kitsch plumes, Gibson’s flamboyant artefacts mock the anthropological impulse, while buzzingly suggesting new rituals’.

Renewal can be a fraught process, as ruangrupa found at this year’s documenta fifteen. ArtReview’s Mark Rappolt and J.J. Charlesworth spoke to the collective’s farid rakun and Ade Darmawan about their hopes for and the results of ruangrupa’s artistic direction of documenta fifteen – and what happens next. Their work confounded many assumptions about how this major survey exhibition should be organised – and who and what it should be for. One thing was certain: they “had to fight for every inch”.

It’s a story that has dominated recent cultural discourse – and is touched on by Naom Chomskyinterviewed by Nika Dubrovsky for ArtReview October. Chomsky, a keen admirer of David Graeber’s work, discusses with Dubrovsky the late anthropologist’s last project, neoliberalism and democracy, Western empiricism and imperialism, free speech, Roe v. Wade, and the war in Ukraine.

Preview: Iceland Review Magazine – Oct/Nov 2022

Cover of Iceland Review, issue 5 2022

ICELAND REVIEW – October / November 2022

In Harm’s Way

Gréta Sigríður Einarsdóttir  October 5, 2022

What can you tell me about North Iceland?

Erik Pomrenke  September 20, 2022

When and where are the September sheep roundups scheduled?

Erik Pomrenke  September 13, 2022

Paris Exhibitions: ‘Claude Monet – Joan Mitchell’

The exhibitions “Monet – Mitchell” create an unprecendented “dialogue” between the works of two exceptional artists, Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Joan Mitchell (1925-1992).

“The dialogue Claude Monet – Joan Mitchell” will be introduce by the “Joan Mitchell Retrospective”, enabling the public in France and Europe to discover her work.

The “Monet – Mitchell” exhibitions present each artist’s unique response to a shared landscape, which they illustrate in a particularly immersive and sensual manner. In his last paintings, the Water Lilies, Monet aimed to recreate in his studio the motifs he observed at length on the surface of his water lily pond in Giverny. Joan Mitchell, on the other hand, would explore a memory or a sense of the emotions she felt while in a particular place that was dear to her, perceptions that remained vivid beyond space and time. She would create these abstract compositions at La Tour, her studio in Vétheuil, a small French village.

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MONET – MITCHELL

Exhibition – 05.10.2022 to 27.02.2023

Previews: Times Literary Supplement – Oct 7, 2022

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This week’s @TheTLS , featuring @GeorgeProchnik on Joseph Roth; @WilliamWootten on the Letters of Basil Bunting; Colin Thubron on human endurance; @lindseyhilsum on William Boyd; @GeorginaEMW on Shakespeare’s female editors – and more.

Books: Literary Review Magazine – October 2022

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HISTORY

ALEXANDER WATSON Under the Double-Headed DoveIron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples Since 1500 By Peter H Wilson LR

MATHEW LYONS A Country Fit for a Queen Tudor England: A History By Lucy Wooding

BIOGRAPHY & DIARIES

RICHARD VINEN:  Kim Kardashian of WestminsterHenry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries, 1943–57 By Simon Heffer (ed)LRR

J B BOSWORTH:  Fascism in the Family Edda Mussolini: The Most Dangerous Woman in Europe By Caroline Moorehead

FRANCES CAIRNCROSS:  Daily Mail ManThe Chief: The Life of Lord Northcliffe By Andrew RobertsLR

THOMAS W HODGKINSON Dine HardMadly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries By Alan Taylor (ed)LR

ART & ARCHITECTURE

ROBIN SIMON Smile & SubstanceThe Portraitist: Frans Hals and His WorldBy Steven Nadler

Previews: Art In America Magazine – October 2022

Magazine cover shows a person dancing

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.

Travel Preview: Romeing Magazine – October 2022

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Rome Film Festival 2022

The 17th edition of Festa del Cinema, Rome’s annual famed film festival, kicks off on October 13 until October 23. The main event takes place at Auditorium Parco della Musica, adorned for the occasion with an infinite red carpet, but the Festa also spreads to other evocative locations in the capital, like MAXXI and Casa del Cinema.

Car, Scooter, Electric Scooter And Bike Sharing In Rome

According to some, all roads lead to Rome. But you may have noticed Rome’s roads are far from eternal (and in serious need of a revamp), reason to why romans often chuckle when they hear the phrase and comment on how the current state of the roads lead more like nowhere rather than Rome. 

Romeing website

Preview: The New Yorker Magazine – Oct 10, 2022

A New Yorker cover shows a silhouette of a man and a young boy angling by a river the Hell Gate Bridge in the background.

Inside Russia’s “Filtration Camps” in Eastern Ukraine

Civilians describe being snatched from their homes and sent away for ideological screening, prolonged detention, and, in some cases, starvation and torture. Is there a larger plan at work?

Are You the Same Person You Used to Be?

Researchers have studied how much of our personality is set from childhood, but what you’re like isn’t who you are.

Has the C.I.A. Done More Harm Than Good?

In the agency’s seventy-five years of existence, a lack of accountability has sustained dysfunction, ineptitude, and lawlessness.

Arts Preview: Artforum Magazine – October 2022

Wolfgang Tillmans, Deer Hirsch (detail), 1995, medium and dimensions variable.

Artforum International – OCTOBER 2022

MAKE LIFE BEAUTIFUL

Alex Kitnick on the art of Wolfgang Tillmans

SEEDS OF CHANGE

Natalia Brizuela and Julia Bryan-Wilson on the art of Jumana Manna

INTO THE STORM

Alexandro Segade on the Ororocene