Tag: art

• How the Uffizi Gallery Is Highlighting Black Figures in Renaissance Art

  July 8, 2020

  Many of the images widely associated with the Italian Renaissance—think Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa, Sandro Botticelli’s The Birth of Venus and Michelangelo’s The Creation of Adam—are dominated by white… more ›

• Interview: Damien Hirst

  April 22, 2020

  The original YBA has done everything to the max – drinking, snorting and making millions with his art. Having gone sober, slimmed down his business operation and taken up flower… more ›

• March 31, 2020

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• Movementradio.org uses cookies

  March 21, 2020

  is an international online radio station based in Athens that explores concepts of presence and motion focused mainly in the area of the Mediterranean Basin through myths of exodus and… more ›

• 35 Top African-American Artists on the Work That Inspires Them

  March 20, 2020

  Over the past 20 years, a new vanguard of African-American creators has helped define the 21st century. Jordan Peele. Ta-Nehisi Coates. Kara Walker. Ava DuVernay. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/19/arts/african-american-art-inspiration.html more ›

• A Kenyan Painter Casts a Critical Eye on China’s Role in Africa

  February 22, 2020

  Michael Soi’s “China Loves Africa” collection examines the symbiotic and often corrupt relationship between Beijing and African elites. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/21/world/africa/michael-soi-kenya-china.html more ›

• Opening transmediale 2020 End to End

  January 28, 2020

  transmediale/ art& digitalculture newsletter Opening transmediale 2020 End to End Schedule bookmark Related events: Related texts: https://2020.transmediale.de/content/opening-transmediale-2020-end-to-end more ›

• Steve McQueen: ‘It’s all about the truth, nothing but the truth. End of’

  January 26, 2020

  First he was a Turner prize-winning artist, then a Oscar-winning film director. Now, with a knighthood and a Tate Modern retrospective, he explains why he’s still angry – and still… more ›

• Where Does Major American Art Come From? Mapping the Whitney Biennial.

  September 2, 2019

  The first Whitney Annual in 1932 was transgressive. The museum was a one-year-old fledgling, set in a rowhouse on West Eighth Street. Its founder, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, was a collector… more ›

• Talking Digital Colonialism with Morehshin Allahyari

  August 20, 2019

  In her new performance lecture title “Physical Tactics for Digital Colonialism,” Allahyari explores what it means for data to be colonized. https://hyperallergic.com/504461/talking-digital-colonialism-with-morehshin-allahyari/ more ›