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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…
One of the first artists to step away from traditional painting altogether was French artist Henri Matisse Photo: The Parakeet and the Mermaid,” 1952–1953 by Henri Matisse. Accompanied by two works of Yves Klein. Collection: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Image: GJ. van Rooij 05 March 2022 | James Porteous | Clipper Media 23 FEBRUARY 2018 HAWKINS BAY…
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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…
‘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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“There’s no algorithm here”: Curia aims to bring the human touch back to at-home viewing with curated collections of films that change monthly. 22 September 2021 | Chris Lindahl | Indiewire We’ve all been there: Endlessly scrolling through the hundreds of movies served to you by the Netflix algorithm — only to come to the…
The artist behind Radiohead’s album covers since The Bends in 1996 is selling a series of six huge dystopian paintings at Christie’s online auction next month. Photo: Stanley Donwood, Residential Nemesis, 1999. Christie’s Images Ltd. 2021 (cropped. full image below) 20 September 2021 | Abby Schultz | Barron’s | With additional links of images The artist behind…
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A new biography says paternity would have been impossible for the musician because he was sterile due to illness and an accident Photo: Bluesman BB King performing during the 40th Montreux jazz festival in July 2006. Photograph: Fabrice Coffrini/AFP/Getty Images 19 September 2021 | Dalya Alberge | The Guardian BB King was born into poverty in…
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Many in San Francisco are reclaiming former Go-4 and Cushman parking enforcement vehicles for transportation and personal expression Photo: Maxime Philippe with her Go-4 Interceptor in San Francisco.Credit…Carolyn Fong for The New York Times (cropped) Photos: Carolyn Fong for The New York Times 15 September 2021 | Bradley Berman | New York Times SAN FRANCISCO…
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Forget the hyperbole. The music was always (and remains) solid and this reissue has been orchestrated by the record label that rejected it to begin with. Photo: Iconic Artists Group LLC / Brother Records Inc 27 August 2021 | James Porteous | Clipper Media It’s only rock ‘n’ roll but it is also big business…
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