Three articles of interest for Contemporary Art

1.  Vanity Fair , May 2011, issue....Piasso's Erotic Code.

2.  New  York Sunday Times Newspaper....Art....A Tatoo Master, March 27,2011.

3.  New York Times Style Magazine, Men's Fashion Spring 2011....Roger Herman, The Last Boho Standing.


Your local library should have these materials for you to review.

Every changing art...never the same....new objects to see, understand, and appreciate.

Enjoy!

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?

Lynda Benglis.....chapter 10 Textbook; WAM cont galleries

The New York Sunday Times..february 13,2011.....has a good article on the artist.  Online Lynda Benglis,nytimes.com/design.  A good addition to understanding her works.

You must take the time to view the newly renovated Contemporary Art Galleries, at the WAM..A wonderful visual reading   of what is! 

Enjoy both.

The New York Sunday Times, 1/18/11

"Pushing Petals Up and Down Park Avenue".  Go to their web-site to read the article and to view their installations.   The article concludes with the following statement..."it's a touch of color in the winter".

We all need color!  Thank you.

Art Since the Mid-20th Century, Worcester Art Museum

Celebrate and experience iconic works by Louise Bourgeois, Chuck Close,Ellsworth Kelly,Sol LeWitt Alice Neel, Jackson Pollock, Andy Warhol, Kiki Smith and other leading contemporary artists, at the Worcester Art Museum, beginning February 18,2011. 

Also, view the new wall at WAM, by Charline van Heyl.   Both of these exhibits relate to what we are looking at this semester.

Thank you.  Enjoy !

Two exhibits at the Worcester Art Museum

For more information  go to  the link below.


http://www.worcesterart.org/


Both exhibits focus on what we have been reading/viewing  this semester.  Thank you.  Hope to see you there.