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The raid Shireen Abu Aqleh was covering when she was murdered took place in Jenin, the home of Palestine’s remarkable Freedom Theatre Photo: Tri-Continental Collage Art is a dream in which we imagine our future: The Twentieth Newsletter (2022) 20 May 2022 | Vijay Prashad | The Tricontinental Dear friends, Greetings from the desk of Tricontinental: Institute…
Psychogeography describes the effect of a geographical location on the emotions and behaviour of individuals Photo: Constant (Constant A. Nieuwenhuys) Tate London 25 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media News Tate Museum How do different places make us feel and behave? The term psychogeography was invented by the Marxist theorist Guy Debord in…
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Museum Director in Tehran fired after performer accidentally falls into a ‘art installation consisting of a 14 feet by 21 feet rectangle filled with oil. ‘…part of the performer’s body hit the oil, causing some oil to spill, which will be replaced..’ Photo: Artist Noriyuki Haraguchi photographed next to ‘Matter and Mind’ (1977) at the…
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‘..there’s a Hockney blue and a Hockney red, in fact a whole palette of bright subtle hues that are totally his own. ‘ Photo: Grand Canyon I, 2017, acrylic on canvas by David Hockney. Photograph: Richard Schmidt/© David Hockney At the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, from 15 March-29 August 14 March 2022 | Jonathan Jones | The…
A yearly tradition, TCM Remembers celebrates the life and work of bright lights that will never fade. 22 December 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media #TCMRemembers the performers, filmmakers and creatives we lost this year. Their art will always serve as a beacon of joy for generations to come, with bright legacies that will…
Retrospectrum features over 180 paintings, drawings, ironwork, and ephemera, showcasing the development and range of Dylan’s visual practice, in tandem with that of his musical and literary canon. Photo: Bob Dylan, Rainy Night in Grand Forks, 2021. COURTESY STUDIO OF BOB DYLAN (cropped. See full version below) 30 November 2012 | Andy Battaglia | ARTnews | With…
For nearly 40 years, Upperline has been a showcase for JoAnn Clevenger’s vibrant art collection and effusive hostessing. Photo: W. Rush Jagoe V (cropped) 18 November 2021 | Brett Anderson | The New York Times NEW ORLEANS — JoAnn Clevenger was certain she would reopen Upperline, her New Orleans Creole restaurant, for most of the…
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Her value is not in her stupendous auction prices, but in her hard-won road to artistic greatness 18 November 2021 | Guardian Editorial | The Guardian A late self-portrait by Frida Kahlo sold this week at a New York auction house for $34.9m. That makes her the most expensive Latin American artist ever, eclipsing her husband, Diego Rivera,…
‘The energy in the room among specialists and onlookers was tense, as pressure mounted over the postwar trove that had been kept together for nearly five decades.’ Photo: Sotheby’s New York headquarters during the Macklowe Collection sale on November 15, 2021. Sotheby’s 15 November 2021 | Angelica Villa | ARTnews In one of the art market’s…
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Photo: Fatemeh Rezaei, a retired teacher, stands next to a Marilyn Monroe portrait by American artist Andy Warhol at Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art in Tehran, Iran, on October 19, 2021. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi) 22 October 2021 | NASSER KARIMI | Times of Israel TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iranian hardliners, now back at the helm…
The puppet’s journey from Turkey to the UK charmed audiences – but also discomfited them. She is following the route that a child migrant from Syria might take. Photo: Little Amal walks along Folkestone pier. Photograph: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images 20 October 2021 | Staff | The Guardian | With additional videos This week, a 3.5-metre tall…
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The filmmaker has been quietly making small, eerie collages on newsprint for 20 years, with faces switched onto other bodies. Photo: “I can work on them anywhere,” Jarmusch said of his collages. “I make them in hotel rooms. Most of the time I do it between the rigors of making a film.”Credit…Josefina Santos for The…
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