THE POWER OF MEMORY AND MYTH
Art Forum - The fourteen paintings and drawings that comprise Maia Cruz Palileo’s debut solo exhibition in her native Chicago are, in essence, portraits of the Philippines, imagined as her family had once kno...
The Man Making Art From Government Surveillance
NPR - Trevor Paglen writes the kinds of books that get you into weird conversations with strangers. He takes the kinds of pictures that are slightly unnerving until you read the title card, and then it becomes...
Mysterious and Mundane in the Paintings of Israel Tsaygenbaum
by Dan Aldo
Israel Tsvaygenbaum’s paintings exhibited recently at Artifact, NYC are within the great artistic tradition of exploring the psyche in order to bring to light what was formally mundane. His intere...
Neon Works by Chris Bleicher
by Dan Aldo
Chris Bleicher’s scenographic body of neon works recently exhibited at Artifact can be defined as a certain theatrical set pieces in which exotic life and its cycles play out a timeless drama in an...
The Aboriginal Australian artist who found international fame with his unique vision
BBC - Albert Namatjira was a pioneer of Indigenous Australian art who learned to paint aged 32. Lauded by critics and admired in galleries, his fans included a young Queen Elizabeth. His unique vision of the ou...
Photographers Who Captured the Ecstasy and Abandon of Rave Culture
Artsy - In the summer of 1989, amid the sweltering heat of one of the driest summers in the U.K. in three centuries, the countercultural spirit of electronic dance parties, or raves, spread across the nation. ...
Sotheby’s in deal to sell estate of hip-hop pioneer and graffiti artist Rammellzee
The Art Newspaper - Techno-poet, Gothic futurist, graffiti artist, rapper, philosopher or… an equation? Such are the diverse and eccentric descriptions of Rammellzee, a cult figure in the New York hip-hop scene...
Will Robert Indiana’s legacy get stuck in a legal battle
The Art Newspaper - What will become of Robert Indiana’s legacy, and who will be in charge of preserving it? The answer might only come out of a closely-watched legal battle over the artist’s estate and his rec...
‘Junk’ art stash may yield multi-million dollar masterpieces
DW - New York gallery owner David Killen believes he has uncovered six paintings by Dutch-American abstract master Willem de Kooning, which — if verified — could be worth tens of millions of dollars.
The wo...
Monet’s lost cat returns home to Giverny
The Art Newspaper - Monet’s cat has found its way home to the artist’s house in Giverny, in northern France. During the painter’s lifetime, the glazed biscuit pottery cat, made in Japan, spent many years curled...