Spotlight – Page 6

Figurative Improvisations of Lone Bech

March 28, 2022

By Dan Aldo The main subject of remarkable portraits by Lone Bech showed recently at Artifact is a human condition of her subjects. Indeed, the strong expressionistic impulse in the artist’s paintings and coll...

When Rammellzee, pioneer of Hip Hop art, hosted a class in Milan

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March 25, 2022

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Domus - Collaborator of Basquiat, forerunner of Afrofuturism and prominent graffiti artist, Rammellzee is the great forgotten name of the 1980s New York underground. His Italian origins have marked an intense...

Spotlight: Layla Vladi

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March 8, 2022

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“Inspired by moments…” Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Layla Vladi Paul Zimmerman: How did you get interested in art? Layla Vladi: I’ve been an artist pretty much ever since l...

Ikeuchi Hiroto sculpts wearable cyberpunk fantasias from gadgets

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January 25, 2022

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de zeen - The result is a series of wearable sculptures that are both futuristic and nostalgic, with a cyberpunk aesthetic. - read more ...

Damien Hirst and the Art of the Deal

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January 25, 2022

Artists, Exhibitions, Profiles, Spotlight

NY TIMES - “He’s a talented artist, but this? Really?” said Alan Baldwin, an art collector, looking down recently at a fluffy black sculpture of a spider with bow legs and googly eyes. Back in 1992, three year...

Maya Mekira’s Natural Exuberance

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January 18, 2022

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by Paul Zimmerman There is something about Maya Mekira’s 3D works recently exhibited at Artifact that immediately captures our attention. It might be the result of the work's natural exuberance, the pure cont...

American Artist Bob Thompson Riffed on the Old Masters of Europe

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January 16, 2022

Profiles, Spotlight

Smithsonian - Born in Kentucky, in 1937, Bob Thompson moved to New York’s Greenwich Village after college, immersing himself in the neighborhood’s bohemian arts scene. Later, he traveled around Europe, where he...

Spotlight: Aranka Székely

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December 30, 2021

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“I am looking forward to the future…” Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Aranka Székely Paul Zimmerman: How did you get interested in art? Aranka Székely: I have been interested in arts since I w...

Bob Thompson’s Provocative Challenge to Euro-American Art History

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December 21, 2021

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Hyperallergic - For Black artists in the mid-20th century, art history was an exclusionary space controlled by powerful white critics, gallerists, and institutions. Painters and collagists like Jacob Lawrence ...

Spotlight: Goran Makeski

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December 7, 2021

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“What I create is the outer symbol of my inner language…” Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Goran Makeski Paul Zimmerman: How did you get interested in art? Goran Makeski: Since my earliest chi...