All four babes unite to discuss the amazing artwork of Ana Mendieta. Born in Cuba, but transported to Iowa as a preteen, Mendieta is known for her performance as well as earth-body works. The babes express their thoughts, feelings and speculation around Mendieta’s art as well as her way-too-short, but fascinating life.
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Los Angeles, CA — The Autry Museum of the American West presents its debut solo exhibition drawn from its acquisition of the estate of renowned artist Harry Fonseca (Nisenan Maidu, Hawaiian, Portuguese, 1946–2006). Coyote Leaves the Res: The Art of Harry Fonseca features 60 of Fonseca’s works, including paintings, sketches, and lithographs, and will be on view from May 19, 2019, to January 5, 2020, at the Autry
You’ll find works from some of the most influential contemporary Chinese artists, such as Ai Weiwei, Cai Guo-Qiang, Xu Bing, and Yin Xiuzhen at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) this summer. Although well-known in the Chinese contemporary art scene, most of these artists are still little-known in the United States.
July 20 will mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission this month, and preparations to celebrate this historic moment are underway across the country. But this anniversary is perhaps felt nowhere more strongly than where much of the action took base—at Johnson Space Center in Houston, home of the Mission Control that launched the famed flight into space.
This video essay seeks to explain how art progressed from figurative works to the abstract art of Jackson Pollock.
Paris Photo, the world’s largest international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium, is launching Paris Photo New York to be held 2-5 April 2020. The new fair will be presented with the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), creating a transatlantic hub between two of the most historic epicenters for the photographic medium – Paris and New York.
It’s virtually impossible to give a cohesive assessment of the 58th Venice Biennale: its multiple venues are distributed between the industrial-looking former shipyard space Arsenale, the quaint Giardini with the various national pavilions and the dozens of individual installations scattered all over town. As a result, what tends to stick after a visit is whatever happened to align with an individual’s personal taste—and with so much on view, there is something for everyone.
This exhibition focuses largely on the sculpture and related drawings that Herbert Ferber (1906-1991) created during the 1950s that represent the artist’s most creative period. In these works, Ferber challenged traditional notions of sculpture and focused on line rather than mass, reflecting his artistic instinct that the future of sculpture lay as much in the shaping of space as it did in the shaping of form.
The beautiful Ardabil Carpet is one of the most important objects in the V&A’s Middle Eastern Collection, and the centrepiece of our Jameel Gallery of Islamic art. As the world’s oldest dated carpet, it is incredibly delicate and needs careful preservation. How is such a large and precious object preserved?
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) has announced 11 new acquisitions by 10 artists: Rebecca Belmore, Forrest Bess, Frank Bowling, Leonora Carrington, Lygia Clark, Norman Lewis, Barry McGee, Kay Sage, Alma Thomas and Mickalene Thomas. Acquisition of these works was funded by the deaccession and sale of Mark Rothko’s Untitled (1960) earlier this spring.
