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Murnau, a village within the Bavarian Alps, is usually acknowledged because the place the place Wassily Kandinsky found abstraction. While dwelling there together with his girlfriend, the artist Gabriele Münter, he got here dwelling in twilight to see one in every of his personal work on its aspect. He realized it was not illustration that […] More

Just 5 years in the past, it was an art-world article of religion that festivals have been the engine of the market. Serious collectors went on world artwork jaunts from Miami and Paris, to Venice and Basel, Switzerland, and attendance at elite artwork showcases might be counted on 12 months after 12 months. TEFAF Maastricht, […] More

“It’s the transformative nature of Surrealism that continues to make it related,” Allmer stated. “Surrealism is inherently political. It began as a protest motion and a method to counter fascism and authoritarianism, in order that’s why it nonetheless could be a very highly effective political weapon for at this time. It will at all times […] More

It was two weeks earlier than Valentine’s Day, and divine intervention appeared to be made literal for a second: Venus herself slowly descended from above, flanked as all the time by her two adoring attendants. She was quickly enshrouded in protecting padding, including a layer of thriller. The Roman goddess of affection and her companions, […] More

In the Seongdong neighborhood of hipster bars and pedestrian streets crowded with the nicely heeled, the Page Gallery has made a reputation for itself in a neighborhood the place it’s exhausting to get seen. And because the gallery seeks to department out past Seoul, it is going to attend TEFAF Maastricht, the European Fine Art […] More

But their enchantment to ladies usually went deeper than trend. The central textual content in most books of hours was dedicated to lavishly illustrated episodes within the lifetime of the Virgin Mary and prayers based mostly round these. “She was a virgin, but additionally a mom, and whether or not you have been a housewife […] More

“I see myself in him. The impossibility of belonging on this world.” The artist Matthew Wong felt a deep kinship with Vincent van Gogh, and he expressed it with these phrases in a textual content message despatched to his gallerist in 2018. Though the 2 artists lived greater than a century aside, their lives have […] More

Perhaps you, too, know the infamous “Madame X”? She of the aquiline profile, alabaster pores and skin and plunging black neckline has lately been transported to Tate Britain, in London, for the second cease of “Sargent and Fashion” (by July 7), which debuted on the Museum of Fine Art, Boston, final fall. The retrospective brings […] More

For a few years change got here slowly to Dia, and that was by design. Since its inception 50 years in the past, the Dia Art Foundation has maintained meticulous long-term displays of Minimal and Conceptual artwork from the Sixties and ’70s at its exhibition areas in Beacon, Chelsea and Bridgehampton in addition to site-specific […] More

In July 2020 the Mexico City-based architect Fernanda Canales confronted a troublesome determination. Tapped to take part in a brand new federal initiative offering lots of of civic services — like libraries, parks and streetscapes — to under-resourced cities throughout Mexico, she might both work on comparatively acquainted websites alongside her metropolis’s periphery or tackle […] More

In the spring of 2020, on the peak of the pandemic, the all the time bustling Dam Square in Amsterdam was abandoned, silent and surrounded by concrete counterterrorism blocks. The Dutch avenue artist Frank de Ruwe, who goes by the identify of Frankey, determined these daunting studded blocks resembled one thing extra harmless — large […] More

The adverts, exhibiting Julia Sinelnikova, an artist, in mid-kiss with somebody they had been courting on the time, accompanied by textual content inviting guests to “journey into the erotic carnival” on the Museum of Sex, began exhibiting up final 12 months throughout New York, together with in subway automobiles and on bus shelters. But Sinelnikova […] More