Arturo Luz, pioneer of Filipino modernism, 1926–2021
WEBJun 1, 2021 · Arturo Luz, pioneer of Filipino modernism, 1926–2021. ArtReview News 01 June 2021 artreview.com. Arturo Luz, Candle Vendors, 1952–1954, oil on canvas, 77 x 123 cm. Working alongside a group of likeminded forward thinkers, Arturo Luz revolutionised art in the Philippines. A founder of the Neo-realist school, his work included painting ...
Ibrahim Mahama Builds Museums of the Future - ArtReview
WEBMay 18, 2022 · Children in a repurposed airplane at Red Clay Studio, Tamale. Courtesy Ibrahim Mahama. A perfect example is the imaginatively titled Dig Where You Stand project, a series of travelling exhibitions that offers a new model of engagement with questions of decolonisation, restitution and repatriation.Dig Where You Stand showcases sustainable models of rerouting existing systems of legitimation and ...
Kenan Malik on cultural appropriation - ArtReview
WEBDec 1, 2017 · Kenan Malik on cultural appropriation. Maqbool Fida Husain is perhaps India’s greatest artist of the twentieth century. His work linked ancient and modern traditions and helped transform Indian modernism. But not everyone appreciated Husain’s work. His depictions of Hindu deities, often naked, outraged Hindu nationalists who questioned his ...
Byung-Chul Han: “I Practise Philosophy as Art” - ArtReview
WEBDec 2, 2021 · Courtesy Byung-Chul Han. Byung-Chul Han is a philosopher with a broad following in the artworld, where his writings, originally in German, on such perennial modern conditions as alienation, loneliness, the fragmentation and disintegration of reality, and the role of technology in fostering so many ills have found traction as well scepticism.
Issey Miyake: a Pioneer for Fashion at the Vanguard of Art, …
WEBAug 15, 2022 · Courtesy of the RISD Museum, Providence, RI. Born Kazunaru Miyake in Hiroshima, Japan, in 1938, he was seven-years old when, while cycling to school on 6 August 1945, US forces detonated an atomic bomb, devastating the city. Over 60 years later, writing in an op-ed for The New York Times in 2009, Miyake described how his mother, who had ...
What Power Does the Word ‘Cunt’ Still Hold? - ArtReview
WEBJun 19, 2023 · Marilyn Minter, My Cunt-ry 'Tis of Thee (still), 2018, HD video. Courtesy the artist and Simon Lee Gallery. The once obscene word is now transcending censorship to enter the mainstream via queer communities around the world, revealing the shifting power of language in the digital age. In the English language, ‘cunt’ is a wildcard.
Luke Silva, emerging British artist, 1999–2024 - ArtReview
WEBMay 25, 2024 · ArtReview News 14 June 2024 artreview.com. Luke Silva. Courtesy Sherbert Green, London. Luke Silva, whose work ruminates on the turbulence of the world, has died aged 25, his gallery Sherbet Green announced. ‘We are deeply saddened to share the news of Luke Silva’s passing,’ the gallery writes. ‘Luke’s kindness, incredible talent, …
Work of the Week: Patty Chang, ‘Fountain’ (1999) - ArtReview
WEBMay 6, 2022 · At first glance, Fountain is all about self-love. It opens with a close-up image of the face of its creator, American performance- and video-artist Patty Chang, staring intently at a reflection of herself, as if to test the maxim that the eyes are indeed the mirror to the soul. And during the entire five-and-a-half-minute video the camera never ...
The ArtReview Files: Bridget Riley
WEBJul 21, 2014 · The ArtReview Files: Bridget Riley. During the course of a career spanning more than 50 years, Bridget Riley has established herself as a major figure in abstract painting and printmaking, relentlessly investigating the optical and emotional possibilities of colours and shapes. Widely known as an icon of Op art, Riley first came to prominence ...
Byung-Chul Han: How Objects Lost their Magic - ArtReview
WEBAug 11, 2021 · Objects – especially well-designed, historically charged objects, and which are not necessarily artworks – can develop almost magical properties. Undinge is about the loss of this magic. ‘The digital order deobjectifies the world by rendering it information,’ he writes. ‘It’s not objects but information that rules the living world.