Guest Posts Archive
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Artistic Innovation and Sacred Empowerment in Kamakura Sculpture
Posted on March 18, 2016Nyoirin Kannon; Kamakura period, early 14th century; Japanese cypress (hinoki) with pigment, gold powder, and cut gold leaf (kirikane); H. 19 1/2 x W. 15 x D. 12 in.; Asia […] -
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Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde and Salome
Posted on March 16, 2016Linda Gertner Zatlin– Artistic Collaboration The association of Aubrey Beardsley (1872-1898) and Oscar Wilde (1864-1900) on the English edition and drawings for Wilde’s play Salome was arguably the most significant […] -
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At Home in Coney Island: Spike Lee’s He Got Game (1998)
Posted on March 4, 2016Read J. Hoberman’s NYRB review of the exhibition and the “excellent, richly illustrated catalogue.” Joshua Glick– One of the major aims of the recent traveling museum exhibition and accompanying book catalog, […] -
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Notes from the field — Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture
Posted on March 1, 2016Ivy Sanders Schneider– In a 1964 photograph of Alexander Calder’s retrospective at the Guggenheim, children are touching the sculptures. They are blowing on them, pressing against them, kneeling on them. […] -
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Lowlands travelogue: Haarlem
Posted on February 8, 2016In Elisabeth de Bièvre’s book Dutch Art and Urban Cultures, 1200-1700, the author explains how distinct geographical circumstances and histories shaped unique urban developments in different locations in the Netherlands and, in turn, […] -
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The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art
Posted on February 2, 2016Sequoia Miller– Long on the fringes of mainstream narratives of modern art, ceramics are typically considered a field of practice entirely distinct from painting, works on paper, and more conventional […] -
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Art + Science: Jennifer Raab on Frederic Church
Posted on January 20, 2016Jennifer Raab — Years ago, standing in front of Frederic Edwin Church’s The Heart of the Andes (1859) at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, I wondered, why is this painting […] -
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Lowlands travelogue: Dordrecht
Posted on January 11, 2016In Elisabeth de Bièvre’s new book Dutch Art and Urban Cultures, 1200-1700, the author explains how distinct geographical circumstances and histories shaped unique urban developments in different locations in the Netherlands and, in […] -
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Tristan Perich’s Art of Music
Posted on January 4, 2016Patrick Coleman– Right now, one of the most exciting art exhibitions in London can’t be seen—not exactly. War Damaged Musical Instruments by Susan Philipsz consists of speakers hanging from the […] -
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Artemisia Gentileschi on the page and on the screen
Posted on December 26, 2015Jesse Locker– I confess that I first heard Michael Palin, of Monty Python fame, was making a documentary film about baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi—the subject of my recent book—buried in […]