Things in recent issues of the New Yorker Magazine

http://www.newyorker.com/online/multimedia/2011/03/14/110314_audioslideshow_malevich


March 14, 2011

In this week’s issue of the magazine, Peter Schjeldahl writes about the new Gagosian exhibition “Malevich and the American Legacy,” which explores the influence of the Russian abstract painter Kazimir Malevich on “nearly fifty works by twenty-five Americans, ranging from a 1949 Barnett Newman to a 2011 Mark Grotjahn.”


There are two other articles of interest, however, the complete article will not be available if you do not have a subscription to the digital edition. You may want to read these at your library, if interested:

Unhidden Identities: A Glenn Ligon retrospective.by Peter Schjeldahl
March 21, 2011

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/artworld/2011/03/21/110321craw_artworld_schjeldahl

There is a review of the new biography of Modigliani by Meryle Secrest:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2011/03/07/110307crbo_books_schjeldahl

Two interesting articles in the N Y Sunday Times

Here are two interesting articles that are reflective of what we are reading and studying....contemporary art.  One deals with  spray painting...titled, Massive attack, by Gaby Woods.  The second article deals with music, art history and contemporary art.

These are the respective links:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/magazine/27Photograffeur-t.html?_r=1&ref=magazine

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/27/arts/music/27watt.html?ref=benratliff

What is your opinion?