The Early-20th-Century Painter Who Captured Solar Eclipses
Click Here to Read: The Early-20th-Century Painter Who Captured Solar Eclipses: In 1918, painter Howard Russell Butler precisely captured what the camera could not: the fiery colors of a solar eclipse by Allison Meier3 on the HyperAlergic on August 16th, 2017. Howard Russell Butler, “Solar Eclipse, Lompoc 1923” (1923), oil on canvas (gift of H. […]
Read more...Eclipses, Comets, and Dragons in a 16th-Century Chinese Text
Click Here to Read: Eclipses, Comets, and Dragons in a 16th-Century Chinese Text: A manuscript compendium from China, currently available for purchase from Jonatha A. Hill, Bookseller, records prognostications related to astronomic phenomena, including the possible meanings of eclipses by Jonathan A. Hill on the HyperAllergic website on August 16, 2017. A rich and […]
Read more...Damien Hirst’s Shipwreck Fantasy Sinks in Venice
Click Here to Read: Damien Hirst’s Shipwreck Fantasy Sinks in Venice: Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable is supposed to be Hirst’s major comeback, a rebuke to his diminished popularity and slumping market value by Tiernan Morgan on the HyperAllergic website on August 9, 2017, Damien Hirst, “The Fate of a Banished Man (Standing),” […]
Read more...Another reactionary attack on artist Dana Schutz, this time in Boston—and a healthy response
Click Here to Read: Another reactionary attack on artist Dana Schutz, this time in Boston—and a healthy response By David Walsh on the World Socialist Web Site on August 10, 2017.
Read more...Why Edvard Munch Began Painting Portraits of the Soul
Click Here to Read: Why Edvard Munch Began Painting Portraits of the Soul: An exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art illustrates how, over time, Munch moved away from observational painting toward something more symbolic and emotional by Bridget Quinn on the HyperAllergic website on July 7, 2017. Edvard Munch in his winter […]
Read more...Twelve Ways of Looking at Frank Lloyd Wright
Click Here to Read: Twelve Ways of Looking at Frank Lloyd Wright by Martin Filler in The New York Review of Books in the August 17, 2017 Issue. Frank Lloyd Wright with a model of the Guggenheim Museum, 1945
Read more...Michel Houellebecq’s Cynicism Persists in His Photographs
Click Here to Read: Michel Houellebecq’s Cynicism Persists in His Photographs: For his US gallery debut, Michel Houellebecq presents an exhibition which amounts to a theory attempting to explain the dysfunction of French society by Michael Valinsky July 27, 2017. Installation View of Michel Houellebecq: French Bashing at Venus, New York (all images courtesy Venus, […]
Read more...Fernand Léger and the Rise of the Man-Machine
Click Here to Read: Fernand Léger and the Rise of the Man-Machine: A major retrospective of the French artist’s work at the Centre Pompidou-Metz highlights how he anticipated the accelerating mechanization of human life by Joseph Nechvatal on the HyperAllergic website on July 23, 2017. Fernand Léger, “Le Cirque Médrano” (1918), oil on canvas, 58 […]
Read more...NEA, NEH, and Smithsonian Would Lose Millions in Funding in House Appropriations Committee Bill
Click Here to Read: NEA, NEH, and Smithsonian Would Lose Millions in Funding in House Appropriations Committee Bill The Committee’s Interior and Environment Appropriations bill now goes before the Senate, where a final federal budget for 2018 will be hammered out in the coming months by Benjamin Sutton on the HyperAllergic Website on July 18, […]
Read more...The Virtual Psychoanalytic Museum Season II video
We invite you to view a video of highlights of this season’s Galleries in the Virtual Psychoanalytic Museum. Enjoy these samples of artistic displays of music, art, and photography. Thanks to the curators and the artists. You can enter the entire Museum at www.virtualpsychoanalyticmuseum.org Nancy Goodman, Museum Director Arnold Richards, publisher (IPbooks) Curators: Batya Monder (with guest Elizabeth […]
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