As Eddie Chambers points out in his introduction to the new Tam Joseph monograph, for many UK artists of colour, getting a clear idea of the breadth of their work is almost impossible as they're usually only exhibited in multi-artist 'omnibus' exhibitions.
Therefore I thoroughly recommend this new Tam Joseph monograph as it offers a really good well illustrated survey of his work, with Chambers great overview & a comments by Joseph himself.
An exploration of #VideoGame performances, this book merges #MediaTheory with performativity, revealing insights from Western art to digital storytelling.
No cute bunnies or lambs in my files, I'm afraid. I do, however, have a lot of queer chickens. This is a painting of a hen-cock (c. 1900), a prize fighter, by English artist Herbert Atkinson. 🥚🐥🐔
"How a City Agency Saves New York’s Discarded Objects for Art" by Lisa Wong Macabasco #ARTNews
"As New York’s largest creative-reuse center and a program of the city’s Department of Cultural Affairs, Materials for the Arts collects a boundless array of reusable materials from businesses and individuals that are then made available to nonprofits, schools, and other city agencies, thus diverting some 1.7 million pounds of materials from landfills in 2023.
The first donation Fremont received for what would become Materials for the Arts was 50 glass exhibition cases from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which to this day continues to gift materials to MFTA, like a large cache of recently digitized slides."
"Someone told me recently that ‘rock art is dead.’ If ‘Art’ was dead, that would not matter to we Aborigines. We have never thought of our rock-paintings as ‘Art.’ To us they are IMAGES. IMAGES with ENERGIES that keep us ALIVE—EVERY PERSON, EVERYTHING WE STAND ON, ARE MADE FROM; EAT AND LIVE ON.
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Instead of talking about ‘Rock Art’, we should be thinking about our responsibility to keep all things of Nature alive, to STIMULATE those places the way Aborigines have always done in the past."
This is a quote from the well-known statement about 'rock art' by David Mowaljarlai (Mowanjum community, Western Australia).
Mowaljarlai, David, Patricia Vinnicombe, Graeme K. Ward, and Christopher Chippindale. 1988. “Repainting of images on rock in Australia and the maintenance of Aboriginal culture”. Antiquity 62 (237): 690-696.
If Sheila Hale's massive biography of Titian seems to much, you will find Bruce Cole's smaller & more tightly focussed Titian & Venetian Painting 1450-1590 (1999) an easier read. Cole focussed much more on the painting & deploys some good sources to explore Titian's career, method & influence. Full of concise insights this is good mainstream art history, ideal if you're interested in Titian & want a quick introduction.
Anarchism and Art Democracy in the Cracks and on the Margins
by Mark Mattern
Interprets popular art forms as exhibiting core anarchist values and presaging a more democratic world. Situated at the intersection of anarchist and democratic theory, Anarchism and Art focuses on four popular art formsDIY (Do It Yourself) punk music, poetry slam, graffiti and street art.
#CfP for the #workshop "The Bourgeois Public Discusses #Art II: #Arts and their Publics in Central Europe Between Regional and European Centres", which will take place in Prague on October 17-18, 2024.
Last year, after a WWII veteran died, his family members discovered 22 stolen Japanese antiques in his attic. These included a hand-drawn map, ceramics, and portraits of Okinawan kings, some dating back as far as the 1700s. On Friday, the FBI announced that the artifacts were on their way back to Japan. NPR has details of what happened, and images of the items.
Having enjoyed Wullschalger's brilliant bio of Monet, I've started reading more #artists bios. Sadly,
Alex Danchev, Cezanne: A life (2012) while erudite & filled with interesting detail, fails to really conjure its subject into existence, remaining somehow distant/detached from Cezanne. However, that aside, it offers a fascinating account of the artist & his #art, rejecting an overly psychological approach for a more materialistic one.
By blessed Starlight made manifest,
From Heaven to Earth
In perfect marriage,
align my Souls
With cosmic wonders from above.
Descending,
to kiss the soil of my heart
Where the Garden of Eros shall grow.
Mosaic panel from Sant'Apollinare Nuovo in #Ravenna which shows Jesus casting out demons from the Gerasene demoniac into a herd of pigs. The story is told in Mark 5:1-5:20 and Luke 8:26-8:39.
The phrase "wabi-sabi" is generally used to mean the beauty of imperfection, pertaining an item that is imperfect or unfinished. However, says Paul S. Atkins, you won't find the term in a standard dictionary of the Japanese language. He writes for @TheConversationUS about where it came from and its connection with tea ceremonies, decay, and loneliness.
The phrase "wabi-sabi" is generally used to mean the beauty of imperfection, pertaining an item that is imperfect or unfinished. However, says Paul S. Atkins, you won't find the term in a standard dictionary of the Japanese language. He writes for @TheConversationUS about where it came from and its connection with tea ceremonies, decay, and loneliness.