April 2021 – Page 2

Fra Angelico’s Annunciation: Sexual clues in a barred window

April 24, 2021

BBC - Fra Angelico's Annunciation draws our eyes towards a recurring symbol that represented both the loss of paradise and the Virgin Mary's purity. Kelly Grovier explores the significance of a fresco's vanishi...

THE LIGHT FANTASTIC

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April 24, 2021

Art and Society, Trending

Smithsonian Magazine - In the Arizona desert, James Turrell is creating one of the most ambitious artworks in American history. Here’s an exclusive look. - read more...

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Yayoi Kusama wraps New York Botanical Garden trees in polka dots

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April 24, 2021

Museums, Trending

de zeen - Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama has poured over a thousand mirrored balls into a pond and covered the trees of the New York Botanical Garden in polka dots as part of a park-wide exhibition. - read more ...

Unique Folk Art Recreates the World Before the Armenian Genocide

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April 24, 2021

Artists, Museums, Trending

Hyperallergic - In the Armenian Museum of America, there’s a curious collection of dioramas that might represent one of the most unique forms of Armenian-American folk art. On the first floor of the Watertown, ...

Spotlight: Nobuko Saji

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April 21, 2021

Artists, Profiles, Spotlight

“A sense of serenity…” Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Nobuko Saji Paul Zimmerman: Congratulations on your current exhibition at Artifact. Tell us about paintings included in this show? No...

Spotlight: Dayami Hayek

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April 16, 2021

Artists, Profiles, Spotlight

"Art is Love…” Paul Zimmerman in conversation with Dayami Hayek Paul Zimmerman: How did you get interested in art? Dayami Hayek: There is no Cuba without art, we can’t breath without art, mu...

San Francisco and Other Cities Try to Give Artists Steady Income

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April 8, 2021

Art and Society

NY Times - Through pilot programs, cities are giving checks to artists in hopes of allowing them to focus on their creative output instead of having a second job. - read more...

After Hours celebrates the side-hustle culture among Melbourne’s designers

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April 8, 2021

Art and Technology, Design & Technology

dezeem - "The pandemic granted us a new moment to take a step back and really engage with our cohorts in the Melbourne design and arts community," said Volker Haug Studio designer Abde Nouamani. - read more ...

Experiencing Museums as They Should Be: Gloriously Empty

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April 8, 2021

Art and Culture

NY Times- The other morning, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Vincent van Gogh and I had a chat. - read more ...

Warhol a Lame Copier? The Judges Who Said So Are Sadly Mistaken.

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April 8, 2021

Art and Culture, Artists

NY Times - A few years back, a bevy of art critics declared that Marcel Duchamp’s 1917 sculpture called “Fountain” — a store-bought urinal he had presented, unchanged, as art — was the most influential work of...

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