Art and Archaeology: Latest Features
Exhibition Review: 3 July 2009
Paris
Last Chance!
Kréyol Factory
In a huge multidisciplinary show in Paris, Caribbean
artists explore creole identities.
Book Review: 1 July 2009
New York
Made in Cassina
The
superstar Italian furniture manufacturer is profiled in a handsome volume,
but something is lost in translation. C. Davis Remignanti offers his
review.
Seen: 25 June 2009
Venice
Virtually Miraculous:
Attending The Wedding At Cana
Filmmaker Peter Greenaway’s
installation explores the Veronese masterpiece from inside the
painting itself.
Exhibition Review: 18 June 2009
New York
Doubled
Delight: Gustave Caillebotte at the Brooklyn
Museum
Despite his iconic La Place de l'Europe, temps
de pluie, Gustave Caillebotte may be the best of the least-known
Impressionists. An exhibition currently at the Brooklyn Museum provides an
opportunity to get familiar with both the artist and the institution.
Exhibition Review: 5 June 2009
Berkeley,
California
The Nexus of
Art and Social Documentary: The Photographs of Sebastião
Salgado
With his uncanny ability to capture sculptural forms and
painterly composition, Salgado quashes the common perception of
photography as a second-tier art form, without diluting its power to
inform and inspire.
Exhibition Review: 21 May
2009
Paris
All
Too Human: The Sacred and the Profane in the Works of Filipo and Filippino
Lippi
Paris' Luxembourg Museum presents works of sublime beauty
and transcendant piety, wrought by artists with the hands of masters and
feet of clay. Patricia Boccadoro comments.
Art Market / Book Review: 13 May 2009
New York
Swimming Among the
Sharks: The Art of Profiting off Contemporary Art
While there is undeniably big money to be
made in the contemporary art market, it is rarely made by those who buy
the works. Don Thompson's new book explores the labyrinthine and perilous
path of art as investment.
Art Market: 20 April 2009
Seoul, Korea
Market Makers:
Korean Eye: Moon Generation
Standard Chartered First Bank has
teamed up with Phillips de Pury & Company’s auctioneers and the
Saatchi Gallery in London to create a market in the West for Korean
Contemporary Art.
Book Review: 2 April 2009
New
York
Naughty Postcards From
Paris
With the international spotlight focused on the visit to
Europe of President and Mrs. Obama, our own "Monsieur X" reviews a book
that reminds us of a time when news from Paris was truly all about the
medium, not the message contained within.
News: 1 April 2009
New York
CT Images Reveal The
Hidden Face of Nefertiti
Thin-section CT imaging of the famous
Nefertiti bust revealed a delicately carved face on the limestone
core.
Book Review: 25 March 2009
Paris
Sloe and Easy: Van Dongen at
the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Despite his early reputation for
painting louche, sloe-eyed broads, Kees Van Dongen inherited the Singer
Sargent mantle, becoming the portraitist of choice of early 20th century
Paris society. A new book, in conjunction with an exhibition at the
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, documents the man and the many, many women
he immortalized.
Exhibition Review: 12 March 2009
London
Babylon: A
Tale of Two Cities
They came, they conquered, they crushed... and
were never the same. Exhibitions in New York and London look back at the
myths and the realities of imperial Babylon and its impact on the ancient
world, but show us, through the prism of the Iraq war, how little
civilization has progressed since then.
Seen: 6 March 2009
Washington, DC
Twittering from the
Ancient World: The Master Strokes of Hassan Massoudy
In the age of
Blackberries and iPhones, it’s easy to lose sight of the fact that the
original hand held communication device was the calligrapher’s pen.
Comment: 3 March 2009
New York
In His Own Image:
Shepard Fairey Fights to Redefine Copyright Law
That his iconic
"Obama Hope" poster is based on someone’s photograph is not disputed, but
Shepard Fairey claims his artistic manipulation of that original is more
than enough to shield him from the ill-advised copyright lawsuit launched
by the Associated Press (who, it turns out, may not even own the rights to
the image).
Art Market: 24 February 2009
Paris
The Yves Saint Laurent
and Pierre Bergé Collection: A Bruised Beau Monde Binges
Global
financial crisis be damned. Whether there to buy, gawk or merely be seen
at the associated soirées, those attending the Saint Laurent/Bergé estate
auction are hell-bent on partying like it’s 1999.
Exhibition Review: 13 January 2009
New York
Southern Living in Living
Color: The Photographs of William Eggleston
A native
Southerner raised on a cotton plantation in the Mississippi Delta,
Eggleston has the ability to speak complex truths in single, garish bursts
of artistic discovery.
Seen: 8 January 2009
London
Death, Art and
Money
Prankster artist Santiago Sierra's latest in-your-face
installation explores the nexus of mortality and profit, with the ironic
collusion of one of the world's largest insurers.
Exhibition review
Paris
Dispatch from
Versailles: From the Ridiculous to the Sublime
In companion commentaries, Patricia Boccadoro first
provides the reader with reason to postpone that once in a lifetime visit
to Versailles, then offers a compelling argument for booking the trip
post-haste. (Hint: wait till they get rid of the giant lobster.).
Exhibition
Review
London
British Museum's
Hadrian Exhibition: Empire Repeats Itself
Imperial
overstretch, financial bailouts, media manipulation, war in Mesopotamia,
and even (olive) oil: Hadrian's Rome looks eerily modern.
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Nick Cave: Soundsuit
Nick Cave: Meet
Me at the Center of the Earth
at the Yerba Buena Center
for the Arts
in San Francisco through 5 July 2009
Photo
courtesy of Yerba Buena Center for the
Arts
Interview
Tokyo
The
Beautiful and Disturbing Art of Fuyuko Matsui
Culture journalist C.B. Lidell talks to
the rising Japanese art star Fuyuko Matsui about her painting, her dark
and troubled mind and Japan’s ghostly past.
Interview
Bangkok
Steve
McCurry: Capturing the Face of Asia
On a photo shoot in Thailand, the award
winning photojournalist Steve McCurry talks to culture journalist C.B.
Liddel about his new book and his many years working in Asian
countries.
Comment
Kassel, Germany
Documenta 12
"If
this is the best the contemporary art world has to offer, I, for one, am
fearful for the future of civilization", writes culture journalist Peter
Kupfer from Kassel, Germany.
Interview
Paris
Afghan
Treasures in Paris: Saved from the Taliban, But Not Quite Ready for
America
Jean-François Jarrige, President of the National Asian Art
Museum in Paris speaks openly about the rampant looting of archaeological
artifacts in Afghanistan, as well as the priceless objects that escaped
the Taliban's deliberate destructiveness and are now on view in Paris.
Exhibition Review
London
The
Golden Age of Couture
Shine Anthony Dharan reviews the blockbuster
exhibition in London that seeks to put London's fashion from the "Golden
Era" on par with that of Paris.
Profile
London
Oleg Yanushevsky: Iconic Russian Artist Finds Asylum in
London
The prominent St
Petersburg artist and curator Oleg Yanushevsky had to flee Russia because
of repeated threats and attacks on his life and art work. He is the first
contemporary Russian artist to win asylum because of cultural
persecution.
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