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Sunday, June 26, 2016. August 1-7, 2016. Auguststraße 35, 10119 Berlin. Afternoon of lectures and conversations:. Exhibition on display and interactive experiments:. New York). Rachel Bernstein seeks to redefine and challenge ideas about what is beautiful, what is grotesque, what is natural and what is unnatural. She combines images of human body part, animal innards, insects, and other living things into forms that are both unsettling and alluring. Gina Eickers explores the very possibility of bodies by...
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artbouillon: April 2013
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Reviews recommendations rants reflections rediscoveries readymades revelations. Monday, April 22, 2013. Wangechi at the Nasher. I used to live in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. It’s where I found my bearings on the arduous path of the artist. Some might think it an unlikely place to find art of the highest caliber. Think again. In the neighboring city of Durham, art has found a formidable home at the Nasher Museum. Its curator of contemporary art, Trevor Schoonmaker. Our “stories” are different...Imaginati...
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artbouillon: May 2013
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Reviews recommendations rants reflections rediscoveries readymades revelations. Thursday, May 30, 2013. In Riga, Poland Meets Flanders. Riga also a number of museums. The main one. Which was well worth a visit. Situated in a gorgeously restored building in the heart of old Riga, the collection includes some impressive minor works from past centuries of Latvian art, as well small collections from East Asia and Egypt. It also has a grand hall, rich with classical detailing, for temporary exhibition...Majew...
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artbouillon: July 2014
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Reviews recommendations rants reflections rediscoveries readymades revelations. Saturday, July 12, 2014. On and On Kawara. Painting is an atemporal art, and, as such, ill suited to documenting the passage of time. Early Renaissance painters used a technique called multiple narrative, wherein one canvas contained depictions of a sequence of events. A stunning example is Filippo Lippi's Feast of Herod. Futurists played with dynamism and simultaneity. The first Today painting is reproduced above, along with...
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artbouillon: January 2015
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Reviews recommendations rants reflections rediscoveries readymades revelations. Saturday, January 3, 2015. Dürer's Rhinoceros: Art, Exotica, and Empire. Dürer's rhinoceros print was a colossal success. It sold up to 5,000 copies during his lifetime, and it was widely copied. As early as 1516, a small cartoonish copy appeared in to a map of the world (below). Dürer's rhino soon found its way into paintings, encyclopedias, and even a Medici seal (below). Dürer's influence on European conceptions of the rhi...
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artbouillon: August 2014
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Reviews recommendations rants reflections rediscoveries readymades revelations. Saturday, August 16, 2014. Prehistoric Galleries: A Visit to Quinkan Country. Left), a pilot, painter, and explorer who began to explore and document the caves around Laura in the 1960s. Tresize consulted local informants and began to reconstruct their stories for a broader audience. His 1969 book, Quinkan Country. Remains the most thorough introduction. Is narrated by David Gulpilil. Australia's most famous indinous actor.
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artbouillon: November 2014
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Reviews recommendations rants reflections rediscoveries readymades revelations. Thursday, November 20, 2014. A Response to the Allegation that Duchamp Stole his Famous Fountain. On November 1, I posted a short animated film. Paying tribute to Marcel Duchamp's Fountain. Denouncing the Society's decision to reject the piece (a photo from that issue appears below). The urinal, which was soon dubbed Fountain. Is now regarded as a major work of art. Indeed, a decade ago, it was selected. On Duchamp's correspo...
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artbouillon: August 2013
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Reviews recommendations rants reflections rediscoveries readymades revelations. Monday, August 26, 2013. The murals were commissioned by Bonampak's leader, Chan Muwan, who was appointed by the authorities in Yaxchitlin around in 790 CE. That's probably him in the left, with jaguar boots and a menacing spear. Chan Muwan commissioned painters to create scenes honoring his heir and celebrating his military prowess. Taking an enemy by the hair, while tormenting him with a spear. Hair pulling is a common ...
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artbouillon: December 2014
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Reviews recommendations rants reflections rediscoveries readymades revelations. Friday, December 26, 2014. El Greco's Revelation: An Anniversary Appreciation of the Painting that Inspired Modernism. The Metropolitan Museum is currently hosting an exhibition. To celebrate the 400th anniversary of El Greco's death. Largely drawn from the Museum's collection, the most impressive work on display is known as, The Opening of the Fifth Seal. The Opening of the Fifth Seal. El Greco's work is among the most disti...