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# New Art Examiner

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- [Scouting the Blogs <br> with Miklos Legrady](https://newartexaminer.net/scouting-the-blogs-with-miklos-legrady/) - Art- Joseph Beuys said everyone's an artist... which is hard to deny. I believe everyone’s a brain surgeon, which is equally obvious. The question is how good a brain surgeon, how good an artist? Art is an instinct, a symbolic language of early humans since the dawn of time. It’s an achievement; there's the art
- [Scouting the Blogs with <br>Miklos Legrady](https://newartexaminer.net/scouting-the-blogs-with-miklos-legrady-2/) - Slow Looking. The Tate Gallery published an article saying take your time looking at art, complaining that people rush by the work without really looking. It seems that when people rush by a work, it's not that the work is amazing, most likely it's boring. A Museum of Modern Art curator has a youtube
- [MOMUS Returning To Art Criticism?<br>Is Canadian Art Neglecting it?](https://newartexaminer.net/to-the-750000-readers-of-momus/) - I offered MOMUS editor Sky Goodden first crack at publishing this critique of her own journal. My argument was that she’d raise MOMUS above the fray by enabling an uncomfortable discussion on the vulnerability of art magazines. The same concept was offered to Canadian Art magazine. Both discretely demurred. (3 years later, in 2021, Canadian
- [Art Kleinman, Structure And Chaos: A Delicate Balance](https://newartexaminer.net/art-kleinman-structure-and-chaos-a-delicate-balance/) - Margaret Lanterman This must-see exhibit can be found at the Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago. Seventeen of Kleinman’s large abstract acrylic paintings fill the main gallery with a welcoming presence. The first glance is deceptive, in that one might be tempted to think of straight forward color abstractions of a cheerful mien. These
- [Localization and Its Discontents](https://newartexaminer.net/localization-and-its-discontents/) - Ewa Borysiewicz in conversation with Katarzyna Róniak-Szabelska Ewa Borysiewicz: I have been thinking about this a lot myself, and this is one of the reasons I wanted to talk with you, since it’s difficult to find an answer alone – the art world is changing, and it seems to me that these changes are not
- [Speakeasy: The Frontiers of Art and Propaganda](https://newartexaminer.net/the-frontiers-of-art-and-propaganda/) - George Orwell Reprinted in preparation for a series of articles on who has the right to critique art. I am speaking on literary criticism, and in the world in which we are actually living that is almost as unpromising as speaking about peace. This is not a peaceful age, and it is not a
- [Volume 37 no 5 May/June 2023](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-37-no-5-may-june-2023/) - Tio Juan Mantel - Unsung Hero Pablo Halguera Instagram’s Perfect Lie Darren Jones the influence of music on art Elga Wimmer New York Faurschou New York Elizabeth Ashe Milan Bill Viola Liviana Martin chicago Art Kleinmann, Structure and Chaos Margaret Lanterman Dubai Art Dubai Rafi Abdullah Editorial Nancy Nesvet Speakeasy – The Frontiers of Art
- [Tío Juan Manuel: Unsung Hero: In praise of our quiet mentors](https://newartexaminer.net/tio-juan-manuel-unsung-hero-in-praise-of-our-quiet-mentors/) - Pablo Halguera Those who have navigated the complex career path of an artist usually keep a long list of individuals who played a key role in their formative years and without whom they could have never become who they are today. I often talk about how I my parents, my siblings and my aunts, from
- [Faurschou New York, the Space Itself](https://newartexaminer.net/faurschou-new-york-the-space-itself/) - Elizabeth Ashe Faurschou New York has such poise it almost feels like it could qualify as its own zip code in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. It’s located an easy walk from the metro, with eateries nearby. The façade picture windows are inviting to wonder what is going on inside. For the opening reception, it was bustling, full
- [Embrace the World from Within: Louise Bourgeois, Miles Greenberg, Yoko Ono ](https://newartexaminer.net/embrace-the-world-from-within-louise-bourgeois-miles-greenberg-yoko-ono/) - Elizabeth Ashe The Faurschou Foundation, headed by onetime art dealer Jens Faurschou, opened its 12,000 sq ft. New York museum exhibition space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, New York in 2019 in a redesigned former shoe factory, continuing in the tradition of its museums in Copenhagen and Beijing of showing the work of contemporary artists and foster
- [The Influence of Music in Art](https://newartexaminer.net/the-influence-of-music-in-art/) - Elga Wimmer This is a journey through music and the visual arts, from New York to Paris to Dubai and back to New York, investigating artists whose work is based on or influenced by music. Throughout history, music and art have been considered a divine match, but how does that pairing translate into contemporary practice?
- [Bill Viola in Milan](https://newartexaminer.net/bill-viola-in-milan/) - Liviana Martin Exciting, engaging, a journey inside oneself: for Bill Viola's exhibition, which began in Milan and will end on June 25th, these descriptions are nothing compared to the sensations that the artist's videos made me feel. Imagine dark, muffled rooms, where the only lights come from figures in very slow movement, now far away,
- [Instagram’s Perfect Lie: How The Social Media Platform is Aiding The Extreme Right](https://newartexaminer.net/instagrams-perfect-lie-how-the-social-media-platform-is-aiding-the-extreme-right/) - Darren Jones The most recent Pines Conservation Society lecture focused on the ecology, history and culture of the Meat Rack—a bucolic half-mile of dunes and forest on Fire Island, situated between the queer hamlets of Fire Island Pines and Cherry Grove. The Meat Rack is a storied cruising ground, but its tracery of pathways can
- [Writing Returns to Art](https://newartexaminer.net/writing-returns-to-art/) - Ex Libris was curated by Dr Ryya Bread and the preview was full of people, many of them artists who knew one another, and the event had a lively buzz which erupted after the introductory talk. Each work had the writing that inspired it also on the wall, although it was not always exhibited at
- [European Odyssey](https://newartexaminer.net/european-odyssey/) - What is art? What is life? If art is to speak what cannot be spoken, then life, in part, is to find each individual unspoken word until the unspoken becomes a philosophy. When art becomes life and life becomes art, it could create countless visual statements in painting, sculpture, poem, film, dance … . My
- [London Pays Homage](https://newartexaminer.net/london-pays-homage/) - Paintings by these three artists are well known to me from images in books, but I still have a such a strong urge to see the actual works that I am willing to spend considerable time, money and energy to get myself to London from Cornwall. Even an English breakfast that is so lukewarm and
- [Wildness at Play](https://newartexaminer.net/wildness-at-play/) - Hannah Light’s paintings are bold in subject and style and do not shy away from the issues that have preoccupied the painter for the last forty years. They are often filled with animals, sometimes with human features. This is a world where a man in evening dress embraces a goldfish, where an immense crow-woman totters,
- [Too Invisible a Narrative](https://newartexaminer.net/too-invisible-a-narrative/) - Downstairs Chesney has a 3 screen video making a loud roaring sea sound. On the left a lighthouse, in the centre an arrow shape, on the right a buoy with flashing light, seen at various times of day and night. It makes an impression, the dangers at sea, the immense power of the sea is
- [Film Review - Wise Blood](https://newartexaminer.net/film-review-wise-blood/) - Wise Blood is a Gothic drama, shot through with dry humour and set in the Deep South It is based on the novel by Flannery O’Connor and directed by John Huston, who also takes a cameo part. Hazel Motes, played by Brad Dourif, is a disillusioned young man back from the Second World War, Dourif’s
- [Milan Design Week 2019 - Collateral Events](https://newartexaminer.net/milan-design-week-2019-collateral-events/) - April, Milan. During the design week experts of the sector, tourists and members of the public give life to one of the most crowded and creative events of the year - where objects of design are almost a pretext to exhibit in noble palaces that reveal their beauty to the public on these special occasions
- [A Window on Our Souls](https://newartexaminer.net/a-window-on-our-souls/) - Materially and spatially transcendent, High Windows is an organism, a system, within which we are asked to confront evolutionary mechanisms of life, time, and function through the body—an anthropocenic arc of birth and decay. A post-war print house in a district dense with demolition and new construction is the site of Mateusz Choróbski’s first solo
- [Hybrid Sculpture, Disciplined Form](https://newartexaminer.net/hybrid-sculpture-disciplined-form/) - SUMMARY: Nancy Graves has taken her sculpture past her initial success with camels. Her work features an uncanny ability to meld disparate materials decisively. She clearly has a superb eye and an inventive mind: Only an adherence to American modernism holds her back. Colorful, budding bronzes bloom in the sculpture garden of the Hirshhorn Museum
- [Goodbye and thanks for all the art](https://newartexaminer.net/goodbye-and-thanks-for-all-the-art/) - “It looks like you’re going to get into a vehicle and you’re going to travel…..” The Biennale of Venice, defined by Codswallop artist Ken Turner as a funfair, has unveiled an installation that is really the “ultimate” in design. A very stylish pod, reminiscent of the pods in the 1956 film, Invasion of the Body
- [Madrid's Montmartre](https://newartexaminer.net/madrids-montmartre/) - If you expected to find in Caixaforum’s futuristic premises a retrospective solo exhibition about the art of famous and iconic painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, or if you long for something new, technological, exciting or bizarre you may be disappointed by these elegant, relaxing and scholarly lessons in art and life called ‘Toulouse-Lautrec and the spirit
- [Sokurov and Rembrandt](https://newartexaminer.net/sokurov-and-rembrandt/) - In only one day, we could not possibly hope to see everything at the 2019 Venice Biennale but we walked through the Arsenal and the Gardini Gardens and managed to look at more than 30 exhibitions (there are at least 30 pavilions of nations.) Amongst several very good and memorable pavilions, the Russian exhibition stood
- [Daniel Dodin](https://newartexaminer.net/daniel-dodin/) - Tiny, black spindly figures carrying large loads on their heads, set amidst floating clouds of rust and blue acrylic paint: this is Daniel Dodin’s 3 metre long painting in the Seychelles Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale. I saw the painting in Dodin’s studio at the Seychelles College of Art where he is a lecturer,
- [Leon Radegonde](https://newartexaminer.net/leon-radegone/) - Leon Radegonde’s work is a reminder that the Seychelles isn’t just about a tropical paradise. His use of everyday materials - salvaged waste, old sheet metal, shop keepers’ notebooks, sackcloth and rags - intimates the social struggle these islands have witnessed. He honours many of his people who would decorate their wood and tin walls
- [A Quick Review of Cuban Art Today](https://newartexaminer.net/a-quick-review-of-cuban-art-today/) - A trip from Michigan to visit Cuba, in late October 2018, seemed intriguing on many fronts, not least the warm weather, nice beaches, an unusual destination, a big history between Cuba and the USA, and mostly for me the reputation that Cuban art and culture were of a high quality and present throughout the country.
- [Contemporary Art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum](https://newartexaminer.net/contemporary-art-at-smithsonian-museum-of-american-art/) - The Smithsonian American Art Museum is a repository of portraits, historical paintings and contemporary American paintings located in Washington, D.C. Carefully selected works dating back to post WWII are presented in a quiet, well-lighted space where visitors are encouraged to walk, reflect and use the imagination. A visit to the National Museum of American Art
- [Rebel with a Cause, an Interview with Derek Guthrie](https://newartexaminer.net/rebel-with-a-cause-an-interview-with-derek-guthrie/) - Norbert Marszalek: The New Art Examiner was originally published from 1973 to 2002. It had a long and rousing history. What made you want to relaunch the magazine in 2015? Derek Guthrie: I love art and I like talking about art. I am an artist on the side but I don’t exhibit. I thought the
- [All We Have Lost](https://newartexaminer.net/all-we-have-lost/) - “I think the nice thing about Biennale Arts, it happens every two years, it's like a clock and I like the idea that it is a way of taking the pulse of what's happening in art but also in the world.” Ralph Rugoff, Curator of ‘May You Live in Interesting Times’, the title of the
- [New Ways of Seeing](https://newartexaminer.net/new-ways-of-seeing/) - I have chosen to respond to James Bridle’s series on the BBC 4 channel concerning his observations on Berger’s ‘Ways of Seeing’. It is presented as a series of broadcasts on his understanding of Berger’s insight on visual art. Later I will cast some doubts on Bridle’s thinking around the internet and its influence on
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-20/) - Each issue the New Art Examiner will invite an art world personality to write a speakeasy essay on a topic of interest. Al Jirikowic lives and works in Washington DC and is our DC Editor. A long-time reader of the New Art Examiner, he ran the famous bar in Adams Morgan, ‘Chief Ike’s Mambo Room'.
- [Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-8/) - What if we all spoke our minds? What would happen if writers of art criticism took off their horse blinds and wrote what they really thought? What would the art world be like today? Would we be any closer to discovering truths? Digging down to see what is there in front of us is what
- [Letters Volume 33 no 6 July-August 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-volume-33-no-6-july-august-2019/) - An Open Rebuke to Galleries Dear Galleries, I’ve wandered diligently in your empty wildernesses and I’ve carefully studied the spaces in between. I’ve searched for scraps in the deep ravines of nothingness and I’ve appreciated the stillness and beauty that exists in the void. I’ve worked hard and now I’m weary. Now I drag myself
- [Volume 33 no 5 May / June 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-33-no-5-may-june-2019/) - In this issue: Darren Jones on the thriving art world in the USA outside of New York Speakeasy on the curator's eye from Olga Korper in Toronto Frances Oliver on Ayn Rand and the lost American soul Jane Addams Allen on Caravaggio and his circle Al Jirikowic trumpets the New Art Examiner Reviews on
- [See my Body, Know my Mind](https://newartexaminer.net/see-my-body-know-my-mind/) - Three people said to be ashamed of their bodies are sent to stay on a Greek island with a larger group who are proud of how they look. This supposedly helps the worried 3 accept their bodies and be happier. By the end, the three bare all or almost all and go naked bathing with
- [Beauty and the Beast](https://newartexaminer.net/beauty-and-the-beast/) - In 1946 John Cocteau took this fairy story and made of it a film for adults, it was to become a classic, one of his most famous films. Made in black and white, and with music by Georges Auric, it is wonderfully strewn with magical moments, stone heads on plinths, the eyes following the goings–on,;
- [Fashionably Unborn](https://newartexaminer.net/fashionably-unborn/) - Cartier, Buccellati (Timeless Art), Tiffany & Co and Bulgari should be on the lookout for the work of Baby Bee Hummingbirds with their jewellery that is taking the market by surprise. People who have ever wondered what to do with their leftover IVF embryos in storage and can’t use them, don’t want to keep on
- [Comments on a Picture by Edvard Munch in Contemporary BBC English](https://newartexaminer.net/comments-on-a-picture-by-charles-munch-in-contemporary-bbc-english/) - So this incredibly sinister and incredibly powerful picture is a detail from Edvard Munch’s painting VAMPIRE. A woman is stood over a man whose head is laying on their breast. Their incredibly fiery red hair is spread all over the man in an over-exaggerated fashion. Not to over-interpret, but him is credibly peaceful and resigned
- [Andrea Limauro and Arnaud Leclere](https://newartexaminer.net/andrea-limauro-and-arnaud-leclere/) - Limauro’s strokes remind me of the slow buildup of henna designs, or eyelet lace, silver sequins in a fan pattern on a sari. “Sweet Escape” 48”x48,” takes on a completely different approach to seascapes. The waves ground the composition in an aqua series of half fans, and the horizon line is a low, red land.
- [Art as Blood](https://newartexaminer.net/art-as-blood/) - In this beautiful exhibition on Baroque, the common thread that links the works of the seventeenth century to contemporary art is not so much the style or content of the works as the concept of "Baroque" and its implications. After the rationality of art, the purity of the forms, the grace of the Renaissance, exploded
- [Adoring Paolo Veronese](https://newartexaminer.net/adoring-paolo-veronese/) - Every year around Christmas, the Diocesan Museum exhibits a Masterpiece. This tradition has been going on for over ten years and this time the painting was the “Adoration of the Magi” by Paolo Veronese, one of the leading lights of the Venetian Renaissance. The canvas comes from the Santa Corona church in Vicenza and is
- [Craft 101](https://newartexaminer.net/craft-101/) - ‘Simplicity! What a hard thing to achieve’. May Davis The Mahoney Collection of Crowan Pottery, made by Harry & May Davis, from 1946-1962, reveals a stunning combination of function and beauty. This is real pottery made by genuine potters in a traditional way. Nowadays, it almost seems as though ‘ceramics’ look down from their lofty
- [Fish Out of Water](https://newartexaminer.net/fish-out-of-water/) - Entering through the hills on an impossibly narrow meandering road you have presented one the best views in Europe; the bay of St Ives. From there, while descending to this subtropical paradise, you are taken back a few centuries with the streets tighter and cobbled. Where the beaches are golden, natural life is lush, and
- [Portraiture captures far more than a person](https://newartexaminer.net/portraiture-captures-far-more-than-a-person/) - This exhibition shows self–portraits of the Newlyn School artists alongside portraits by other artists, amusing caricatures and photographs with the addition of mini biographies. This results in unusual opportunities to see the artists in different ways and is far more interesting than I had anticipated. I found out that Tuke said Newlyn was 'simply reeking
- [The Newlyn Society Demands Thought](https://newartexaminer.net/the-newlyn-society-demands-thought/) - The preview was full of artists who knew one another, and had a lively buzz which erupted after an introductory talk. Dr. Ryya Bread curated the show. Each work had the writing that inspired it also on the wall, not always exhibited at a good height for reading. Some of the writings were poems. It
- [Don McCullin](https://newartexaminer.net/don-mccullin/) - This is Humanity This is Truth This is Politics Don McCullin is a photojournalist whose career has taken him to reaches of the world where war, politics and human tragedy have been brutally played out. He has dedicated his life and camera skills to documenting these events in the hope of bringing about change by
- [Europe Defines the African Art Market](https://newartexaminer.net/europe-defines-the-african-art-market/) - Does the African art world have a centre? Europe’s art capitals emerged as the most able to achieve visibility and the institutional validation of contemporary art from Africa. It a ppears this compelled, and was somewhat mitigated by, the ‘decolonising’ curatorial thrust driving the exhibitions studied in a new report by Corrigall & Co, a
- [MCA is all body and little soul](https://newartexaminer.net/mca-is-all-body-and-little-soul/) - In August 1992, when the dog days were drawing to an end, I set off to walk the county of Suffolk, in the hope of distilling the emptiness that takes hold of me whenever I have completed a long stint of work. And in fact my hope was realized, up to a point; for I
- [Northern Italy’s Age of Luminosity](https://newartexaminer.net/northern-italys-age-of-luminosity/) - SUMMARY: An impressive exhibition presents the work of Italian artists who congregated in the Emilian town of Parma. “The Age of Correggio and the Carracci: Emilian Painting of the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries1’ reveals technical virtuosity, exciting imagery and emotional intensity on busy canvases — a combination that can appeal to those fatigued by the
- [Phoenix? What Phoenix?](https://newartexaminer.net/phoenix-what-phoenix/) - In our recent whirlwind of name change adventure, the New Art Examiner un-earthed its history, reclaimed its soul and sprang forward. This was the tough medicine that was called for - almost as if it was ruefully preordained. We brushed up on our mission statement, indeed brushed it off, for all to see. The New
- [The Hidden Struggle for America’s Soul](https://newartexaminer.net/the-hidden-struggle-for-americas-soul/) - Gary Weiss, ‘Ayn Rand Nation’ Gary Weiss was inspired to write his book when he realised, after the crash, after the orgy of deregulation and greed that led to the crash, there was a ‘missing piece to the puzzle.’ ‘The philosophy of greed had a philosopher’ and that philosopher was Ayn Rand. Like many others,
- [Letters Volume 33 no 5 May-June 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-3/) - UK’s Art Market Editor, considering the global art market data in The Art Market released by Art Basel and UBS, “Sales in the three largest markets of the US, the UK, and China accounted for 84% of the global market’s total value in 2018: The US was the largest market worldwide, accounting for 44% of
- [Why Art Criticism Matters and Why Most of it Doesn't](https://newartexaminer.net/why-art-criticism-matters-and-why-most-of-it-doesnt/) - Judgment We mustn’t judge. This is what we are taught. But the directive is a misplaced affectation based on a few hundred years of superficial civilizing. It is our primeval nature to judge, as all animals must. If we didn’t, we wouldn’t survive long; we’d make decisions that would sooner rather than later, cause us
- [Tin Bòta: cultural heritage damages and collective recovery effort after the flooding in Emilia Romagna](https://newartexaminer.net/tin-bota-cultural-heritage-damages-and-collective-recovery-effort-after-the-flooding-in-emilia-romagna/) - Eleonora Schianchi In early May, a series of intense floods struck several regions in Italy, with particular emphasis on Emilia-Romagna, located in the central-northern part of the peninsula. These natural calamities resulted in overflowing rivers, landslides, and mudslides, inflicting significant damage to the landscape. The tragedy unfolded in two phases, with fifteen days of almost
- [Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-7/) - Washington, May 2019 This issue of the New Art Examiner acknowledges we made a mistake by attempting to change our name to the New Art Gazette. We were frightened by a lawyer’s advice pointing out the possibility of being sued. On second thought, we decided this was unlikely and the publisher would be happy to
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-19/) - Each issue the New Art Examiner will invite an art world personality to write a speakeasy essay on a topic of interest. Olga Korper has dedicated her life and career to the service of conceptual contemporary art. Olga has consistently been a source of wisdom and guidance for artists, fellow dealers, and aspiring collectors, from
- [Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-6/) - I was invited to a talk given by Rafael Lorenzo-Hemmer at the Hirshhorn Museum who are exhibiting three of his heart-beat installations. His talk, given at 7pm in the cinema-like auditorium, was an object lesson in complacency. Rafael has, as with other contemporary super-stars, a small full time industrial team of fifteen working on his
- [“Making art is ... making love to the world.”](https://newartexaminer.net/making-art-is-making-love-to-the-world/) - Since he first opened an architecture studio in 1964, has created a profound sense of beauty and energy, wrapped around utilitarian structures. He expounds a free expressive form with out of the box thinking and boldness. His approach is influenced by his emotional reactions to the visual experience which he communicates in a simple, straightforward,
- [The British do it Better](https://newartexaminer.net/the-british-do-it-better/) - From 2018/10/01 to 2019/01/27 at the National Gallery in London and then at Gemaldegalerie in Berlin, an event you can’t miss. This remarkable exhibition displays paintings of two Italian Renaissance masters: Andrea Mantegna and Giovanni Bellini. The exhibition, with its paintings coming from all over the world, took six years to prepare and millions of
- [Tony Shiels, the Movie](https://newartexaminer.net/tony-shiels-the-movie/) - The exhibit was on Tony Shiels, considered one of the third generation St Ives’ artists, but what totally surprised me was the video, Making Marks, by Ben MacGregor that was used to support the show. It did much more than that; it stole the show! I wasn’t prepared to be enchanted by a video about
- [Anima Mundi and Crypt Exhibitions Compared](https://newartexaminer.net/anima-mundi-and-crypt-exhibitions-compared/) - Anima Mundi now has an attendant near the door who turns out to be one of the exhibitors, greets me, offers the information sheets and price list and is willing to discuss the work. The information is extensive and in rather small grey print. The blurb strikes me as contending for pseuds’ corner. At the
- [Onya McCausland LANDSCAPES](https://newartexaminer.net/onya-mccausland-landscapes/) - From outside the show looks minimal. Several yellow ochre and red ochre canvasses with geometric designs, very carefully painted. One or two with organic branched designs. Some overhead plans of sites on the floor. On the back of the price list are grey small print details about mine sites and water treatment although the why
- [Two Northern Lights in Nordic Show](https://newartexaminer.net/two-northern-lights-in-nordic-show/) - Nordic Impressions spans nearly 200 years from 1821-2018, includes 53 artists representing Finland, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Greenland, Iceland, Aland, and the Faroe Islands. The Phillips Collection survey offers the viewer meditations on nature’s expression both benevolent and horrible.; as well as an extensive catalogue organized by Klaus Ottmann, who is Chief Curator and Deputy Director
- [The Beauty of Women](https://newartexaminer.net/the-beauty-of-women/) - ‘Architecture of Consolation’ currently on display at Chicago Artists Coalition features new work by BOLT resident artist Cathy Hsiao. Hsiao’s subject matter is the Bijin-ga, or “beautiful person picture” a Japanese term for erotica, specifically images of beautiful women presented in the Ukiyo-e method of print making. Hsiao, who herself has a background in the
- [Three Artists Play with Your Soul](https://newartexaminer.net/three-artists-play-with-your-soul/) - My womb es mi Altar is the latest show curated by Tracie D. Hall, owner and founder of Rootwork Gallery. Inspired by the writings of Chicana cultural theorist, Gloria Anzaldua and Anzaldua’s statement “I am playing with my Self, I am playing with the world’s soul”, the show delivers some expertly painted works by three
- [The Man Who Lived Twice, an Appreciation of William Congdon](https://newartexaminer.net/the-man-who-lived-twice-an-appreciation-of-william-congdon/) - An exponent of figurative abstractionism, the American painter William G. Congdon, in the 1940s, was as famous as a Rothko, Pollock or Rauschenberg. A tormented and very sensitive soul, he lived two conversions that produced a dichotomy between the "before" and the "after" in his artistic production. If at the beginning his work was still
- [Museum Politics in Toronto](https://newartexaminer.net/museum-politics-in-toronto/) - The definition of Anthropocene from the Merriam-Webster dictionary reads: “the period of time during which human activities have had an environmental impact on the Earth regarded as constituting a distinct geological age. Most scientists agree that humans have had a hand in warming Earth's climate since the industrial revolution—some even argue that we are living
- [Ayn Rand, A Defence for the Indefensible](https://newartexaminer.net/ayn-rand-a-defence-for-the-indefensible/) - Left behind by the previous owners of my parents’ Vermont summer home was a number of books. They weren’t my parents’ kind of reading, nor mine, but one fat book intrigued me (I was thirteen, the age when in pre-Laddt-Chatterly-trial days you looked for the rare sec bits in adult fiction.) I found some and
- [Exhibit Heightens Gauguin Myth](https://newartexaminer.net/exhibit-heightens-gauguin-myth/) - SUMMARY: An exhibit at the National Gallery of Art was intended to dispel Paul Gauguin’s South Seas image but will probably romanticize it even more. The most complete Gauguin show in more than eight decades, ‘The Art of Paul Gauguin” is astonishing in its beauty and variety, embodying the power of desire and spiritual significance.
- [The Disease of Grade Inflation](https://newartexaminer.net/the-disease-of-grade-inflation/) - It is no secret that American higher education has been driven lower and lower over the past 50 years. The most obvious symptom of this decline is grade inflation to the point that the grade of A has become a placeholder, a participation trophy where excellence is no longer a factor. In the meantime course
- [Zero-Sum Culture: Is the Canon Safe in American Museums?](https://newartexaminer.net/zero-sum-culture-is-the-canon-safe-in-american-museums/) - Partisanship tends to deceive the partisans. Although true believers may not admit it, some issues do transcend politics. Such is the case with an article that Roger Kimball published in The Wall Street Journal in December 2018. In response to the appointment of Kaywin Feldman as director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington,
- [Volume 33 no 4 March-April 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-33-no-4-march-april-2019/) - In this issue: Zero-Sum Culture: Jorge M Benitez The disease of Grade Inflation: Stephen Luecking Exhibit Heightens Gaugin Myth: Jane Addams Allen Ayn Rand - A Defence for the Indefensible: Frances Oliver Museum politics in Toronto: Rae Johnson Frank Gehry at 90: Lili Lihting Your letters. Editorial by Derek Guthrie Scouting the blogs with Miklos
- [Letters Volume 33 no 4 March / April 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-volume-33-no-4-march-april-2019/) - Peculiar Cosmetics Hiding Beauty Hi Rosanna, what a great review! People are finally beginning to fight back, as can be seen with the protest against Avon cosmetics for body shaming women’s bodies about cellulite with their advertising. As the actor Jameela Jamil said, “Every body is beautiful, unless they have any ‘flaws’ I guess. What
- [Art in the ruins](https://newartexaminer.net/art-in-the-ruins/) - I have a small but persistent belief that places touched by disaster, such as Chernobyl and Pripyat, may be haunted by ghosts, those unsettled spirits tethered to the earth by an inability to comprehend the fate that has befallen them. It was a day of ethereal mist and cold damp air in the woods
- [The Bralette and the Twilight of the Underwired Push-up Bra vs. the Codpiece](https://newartexaminer.net/the-bralette-and-the-twilight-of-the-underwired-push-up-bra-vs-the-codpiece/) - Women have always supported pain and discomfort in the name of beauty and fashion, as they have tried to fit the image society expects of them and have the figure that men of their time admire. All for fashion. The fact that some clothing articles might be uncomfortable or constricting has been considered unimportant and
- [The Penwith Gallery improves to One out of Six](https://newartexaminer.net/the-penwith-gallery-improves-to-one-out-of-six/) - I am intrigued to discover how very much I want to be challenged by Art and not just to see something done well that has already been done and is now being done again. Of the 6 artists in this exhibition, by far the most interesting work is by the sculptor Seamus Moran. His work
- [Pulitzer comedian at the Hirshhorn](https://newartexaminer.net/pulitzer-comedian-at-the-hirshhorn/) - The Hirshhorn hosted an interview between Jerry Saltz, critic at New York magazine and Charlotte Burns editor at In Other Words on the evening of 29th November 2018. It was the second talk I had attended since arriving in DC on 26th September, the first being given by Raphael Lozano-Hemmer. Both were self-indulgent hogwash. Saltz
- [Vanishing into Infinity](https://newartexaminer.net/vanishing-into-infinity/) - Yayoi Kusama at the Hirshhorn. Standing alone, surrounded by a cosmos of points of light, or rows of glistening, golden pumpkins, my loneliness is alleviated by the unaccountable vastness and brilliance of these shimmering forms. But there is a dark side to this brilliance; the artist’s suffering and experience played out on this field. Yoyoi
- [Same ol’ Carnegie](https://newartexaminer.net/same-ol-carnegie/) - It was made clear in curator Ingrid Schaffner’s introductory meet the press talk when she posed the rhetorical question to herself; is there a theme for the Carnegie International? Her emphatic response ... NO. In general the exhibition is arranged as a series of one person exhibitions which only reinforces the idea that there is
- [The Auto Mall of Art](https://newartexaminer.net/the-auto-mall-of-art/) - Used car salesmen and all their entourage of overhyped and bibulous aficionados filled the rows of the new and alluring showroom of Art Basel Miami inside the Miami Beach Convention Center. Booth after booth of this year’s freshest art pieces were surrounded by elegant but weathered dealers and artists trying to make it big. Miami
- [Basel, Miami Beach](https://newartexaminer.net/basel-miami-beach/) - Art Basel, Miami Beach is, supremely, a market-place. You walk into the exhibition halls at Untitled, Scope and the Miami Convention Center, and walk around the spaces with your list, knowing exactly what you want to buy. Like any instinctive shopper you are always open to a new experience but in the main your meal
- [Colour me impressed](https://newartexaminer.net/4143-2/) - The exhibition of the British artist Patrick Heron, which covered his early figurative and later complete abstractions, featured fascinating vignettes of his life. The first retrospective show of Heron’s work in over twenty years, highlights Heron as a driving influence behind the St Ives School. As a critic, Heron made commanding arguments for abstraction, pushing
- [The Market Rules but it’s not Okay](https://newartexaminer.net/the-market-rules-but-its-not-okay/) - In our high tech and cyberspace age a few old metaphors remain, from the time when work was mostly physical; metaphors still current in my childhood but now rare. You might still put a shoulder to the wheel, a nose to the grindstone, or die in harness. You might also be told there are lots
- [Ludwig Mies van der Rohe](https://newartexaminer.net/ludwig-mies-van-der-rohe/) - SUMMARY: In this, the centenary of the birth of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the attacks continue on the modernist functionalism that he espoused and the glass-and-steel building designs that expressed his vision. Though times have changed, and along with them the needs of architecture, a current New York exhibition of his drawings offers
- [Publishing Critical Thinking in Cornwall](https://newartexaminer.net/publishing-critical-thinking-in-cornwall/) - Some of the finest minds in modern history have edited journals, magazines, books or periodicals. They have enriched the cultural legacy of their generations with their virtuosity, fearless opinion and wide-ranging critiques of their generations. It is not a skill I began to develop until I met Derek Guthrie in Penzance, Cornwall and was presented
- [Why I Write for the New Art Examiner](https://newartexaminer.net/why-i-write-for-the-new-art-examiner/) - My title, and therefore in effect my brief was proposed by the editors of NAE. My response is to paraphrase George Orwell’s essay on this subject, ‘Why I Write’ (1947). It involves autobiographical accounts followed by a politics of writing – a useful model and a place to begin. Orwell cites four motivations for a
- [Vija Celmins:  To Fix the Image in Memory](https://newartexaminer.net/vija-celmins-to-fix-the-image-in-memory/) - All Vija Celmins remembers of her childhood are the sounds--bombings, trains, sirens, planes. For the past half-century, her art has been geared toward silencing these sounds, giving them space to breathe on canvas, and in doing so, generating a sense of fixed quietude from memories of war. It is fitting that the first retrospective of
- [Surveillance, Community, The Future of Art](https://newartexaminer.net/surveillance-community-the-future-of-art/) - Nancy Schreiber considers Rafael Lozano-Hemmer Immediately inside the L’Musee d’ art Contemporain in Montreal was a dazzling display of light, blinking on and off to an irregular rhythm. This inverted, seemingly never-ending Christmas tree of light drew me in to absorb the multitudinous crystalline structure; the tiny lights expanding to the greater. The Smithsonian Hirshhorn
- [The Unprivate Eye](https://newartexaminer.net/the-unprivate-eye/) - When you are climbing the snail stair of the Reading Room in British Museum you know something different is about to happen. There is nothing more thrilling than discovering ‘the freedom of speech and expression’ alive and well; there is nothing more exciting than the breaking of rules and conventionalism of societies and the smart
- [Musical Chairs Game at New York Art Shows](https://newartexaminer.net/musical-chairs-game-at-new-york-art-shows/) - It’s been an interesting couple of weeks in the New York Art World, as the Armory Show moves to Pier 90 and 94, cancelling Emerging Artist show Volta. Due to the unsound structure of Pier 92 on New York’s Hudson River, part of the Armory show previously to be located on Pier 92, was scheduled
- [Rebellion is Neutered when it Becomes Art](https://newartexaminer.net/rebellion-is-neutered-when-it-becomes-art/) - Ralph Adam Satire in art is familiar to us all: Hogarth, Daumier, Gillray or, perhaps, Rabelais spring to mind. Their work using humour, irony or exaggeration to expose and criticize. They ridiculed the stupidity, pomposity, vices, follies or abuses of individuals, companies, rulers or even society itself. Not all satire is so obvious. Sometimes it
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-18/) - What is the value of art? Art cannot change our world or the conditions of the art market. It cannot exist without auctions, fairs, dealers and speculators. Art can be full of ambition and desire for change, but it often struggles to make an impact beyond the art world. Most of us have come across
- [Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-5/) - Washington October 30th 2018 I was invited to a talk given by Rafael Lorenzo-Hemmer at the Hirshhorn Museum who are exhibiting three of his heart-beat installations. His talk, given at 7pm in the cinema-like auditorium, was an object lesson in complacency. Rafael has, as with other contemporary super-stars, a small full time industrial team of
- [Letters Volume 33 no 3 January / February 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-volume-33-no-3-january-february-2019/) - The Academic Execution of Javier Tapia Derek, The American obsession with race swings from the inhumanity of slavery to the inhumanity of masochistic atonement. Both extremes demand the sacrifice of anyone who steps into the never-ending civil war at the wrong time. Such is the case with Javier Tapia, a white, Peruvian-born American citizen who
- [Volume 33 no 2 November / December 2018](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-33-no-2-november-december-2018/) - Features: Bearing witness, not weapons Jill Gibbon interviewed by Daniel Nanavati Glenstone penitentiary Nancy Schreiber Van gogh in arles Jane Addams Allen, 1986, the marketing of the Metropolitan All consuming beauty Rosanna Hildyard on John Berger and Naomi Wolf White supremacy, benevolent institutions and shinola Rebekah Modrak Dressing for that final journey Pendery Weekes, Fashion
- [Writers Groups - Cornwall](https://newartexaminer.net/writers-groups-cornwall/) - It may look like a tranquil group of women ready to take on a sewing project for the autumn, but instead it was the New Art Examiner’s monthly writing meeting held in Penzance. Though only 8 this time, writers came from Cornwall, the Seychelles and the US. Topics included land art/environmental art, Ayn Rand, the
- [Dressing for that Final Journey](https://newartexaminer.net/dressing-for-that-final-journey/) - Have you ever wondered what you would wear on your last final journey? Though this is fashion at the extreme end, for this important moment nothing should be left out, nor any detail overlooked. Prepare your outfit or others will do it for you, perhaps leaving you slightly unsatisfied, to say the least. As the
- [Dancing with Myself - The Artists Represent Themselves](https://newartexaminer.net/dancing-with-myself-the-artists-represent-themselves/) - Flowers made of salt, very fragile compact masses that emerge from the walls of the warehouses of Punta della Dogana in Venice, centuries-old witnesses of the salt trade that took place here, welcome the visitor to the exhibition of Dancing with Myself. There could be no better identity card to introduce a collective that on
- [Why Cornwall Sold Out](https://newartexaminer.net/why-cornwall-sold-out/) - Being asked to write an article on such a topic is rather like asking a man if he has stopped beating his wife. Cornwall. We have to go back a little. Perhaps as far as the Vikings with whom we were on friendly terms, often fighting on the same side. Jolly Vikings. To the Romans
- [Black is flat at Roots and Culture](https://newartexaminer.net/black-is-flat-at-roots-and-culture/) - Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez and Darryl DeAngelo Terrell’s two person show, currently open at Roots and Culture brings together the work of two very different artists. Terrell’s text pieces act as a striking foil to Rodriguez’s photographic works which explore the legacy of documentary photography drawn from the legacy of the Sandanista National Liberation Front and
- [Huong Ngo, Reap the Whirlwind at Aspect Ratio (West town)](https://newartexaminer.net/huong-ngo-reap-the-whirlwind-at-aspect-ratio-west-town/) - How are representations of the female body visualized and introduced to the western gaze in colonized southeast Asia? How do these representations sustain the programmes of colonization? How do these representations grant or deny subjectivity to subject of the gaze? And perhaps most importantly, how do we reconsider these women as subjects seeking political agency
- [Entrepreneurship 407: White Supremacy, Benevolent Institutions, and Shinola](https://newartexaminer.net/entrepreneurship-407-white-supremacy-benevolent-institutions-and-shinola/) - There was great clarity in the post-Civil War Confederate monument. Solid materials erected in a city’s central square to carry an unambiguous message: honor white supremacy and intimidate African Americans. While we celebrate the removal of these granite and bronze statues from plazas around the country, it’s worth considering whether their messages find new, unsettling,
- [Marking the Infinite:](https://newartexaminer.net/marking-the-infinite/) - Contemporary Women Artists from Aboriginal Australia The Phillips Collection: Marking the Infinite, spotlights nine leading Aboriginal Australian women artists: Nonggirrnga Marawili, Wintjiya Napaltjarri, Yukultji Napangati, Angelina Pwerle, Lena Yarinkura, Gulumbu Yunupingu, Nyapanyapa Yunupingu, Carlene West, and Regina Pilawuk Wilson. The artists are from remote Aboriginal communities across Australia, and the subjects of their art
- [The Swamp School](https://newartexaminer.net/the-swamp-school/) - One quarter of Lithuania’s territory consists of swamps and wetlands. These lands represent the ethno-cultural identity of the various regions, and pedagogues have long stressed the relationship between ethnic culture and ecology. It is common in ancient myths to consider water a sacred element for positive spiritual activity, but with potential for evil. In local
- [Rae Johnson in Toronto, Painting in Canada](https://newartexaminer.net/relating-to-rae-johnson-in-toronto/) - Have you ever seen a huge-mongous drawing? Rae Johnson’s paintings, average 48”, appear as pencil drawings writ large. Walk up to one; it introduces itself and shakes your hand as a painting, but it’s a painting that looks like a huge pencil work, or a watercolor. In an era where artists put their shoes on
- [All-consuming Beauty](https://newartexaminer.net/all-consuming-beauty/) - I was walking past a nail bar, one of the kind you find from the centre of London to provincial market towns, and caught sight of the small-print words ‘Fat Freezing’ on the sign swinging outside. I wondered why this was not strange. I stopped and read the sign. The words that had simultaneously attracted
- [Van Gogh in Arles](https://newartexaminer.net/van-gogh-in-arles/) - The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Van Gough in Arles show, which opened to the public in October 18 is both exhilarating and crushingly depressing. What unfolds at the Met is a tragedy of grand dimensions. There has seldom been this show which follows an artist development so intimately on the day to day basis nor
- [Glenstone Penitentiary](https://newartexaminer.net/glenstone-penitentiary/) - Intensely anticipated by the New York and DC art community, October 4 marked the public opening of the Mitch and Emily Rales’ Foundation’s “Pavilions”. Billing itself as the latest U.S. non-profit museum, it may not qualify as a museum at all. According to the International Council of Museums, a worldwide body of museum professionals
- [Bearing Witness, Not Weapons](https://newartexaminer.net/bearing-witness-not-weapons/) - Jill Gibbon Skypes with our European Editor DN: Thank you very much for talking to the New Art Examiner today. I wanted to know a little bit about your background. When did you first think you were going to be an artist? When did you first decide you wanted to be an artist? JG: Oh,
- [Speakeasy Volume 33 no 2 November / December 2018](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-volume-33-no-2-november-december-2018/) - Political Art is not Historical Art. In keeping with his years long tradition of making political oil paintings and lithographs satirizing and glorifying the Trump administration, Brigham Young University adjunct professor Jon McNaughton has produced “Crossing the Swamp”. An oil painting with numerous gliclees and lithographs resulting from it, inspired by the German-American painter Emanuel
- [Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-4/) - The USA is very unhappy. In particular the poor and the near poor who are mostly women and minorities are unhappy. Frustrated. Bordering on angry. The art scene has lost all gusto and art no longer enjoys the support and prestige it had even in recent memory. Social media has utterly changed the cultural landscape.
- [Letters Volume 33 no 2 November / December 2018](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-volume-33-no-2-november-december-2018/) - Is There Anybody there? Hi Al, I really enjoyed your review of Francisco Toledo. Why do you think that Washington has a “largely insensitive and lax art community”? Wasn’t it just perhaps that American University was the wrong venue for showing his work and that possibly there wasn’t enough publicity to make people aware of
- [Volume 33.no.1 September / October 2018](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-33-no-1-september-october-2018/) - In this issue: Speakeasy with Melanie Manos, our new Detroit editor We interview one of Bernard Leach's finest apprentices, John Bedding Why artists' fail by Darren Jones in New York The Autonomies of Art by Clement Greenberg, a lecture given in Virginia. Clement Greenberg reconsidered by Jane Allen To the 75,000 Readers of MOMUS magazine
- [Film Review: The Square](https://newartexaminer.net/film-review-the-square/) - I went to see Robert Östlund’s film THE SQUARE expecting a satirical gibe at post-modernist art, and wondering what new it could offer. From half-cows in formaldehyde to unmade beds to the tools and carpenter’s horses blocking the stairs in a staid old Swiss museum (Why have the workmen left their things here, I wanted
- [The Indian Ocean Comes of Age](https://newartexaminer.net/the-indian-ocean-comes-of-age/) - The Seychelles has a surprisingly aware artistic community. Art here has two diverse antecedents: the realistic social commentary of the liberated s lave, Billy King, and the primitivist depiction of tropical flora by British Marianne North. Eden Art Space shows both in its exhibition of work by 15 artists inspired by “Vannswet”, the SE
- [The silence of Ani](https://newartexaminer.net/the-silence-of-ani/) - This video is in black and white. The setting looks deserted and wild, spacious, grasses wave in the wind. There are fragments of masonry, something like a chapel, columns, carved words, an ancient site with no visitors, or only a few young people with bird whistles, making sweet trilling noises of various kinds, approaching and
- [Broken: Donna Festa at Redwing](https://newartexaminer.net/broken-donna-festa-at-redwing/) - When I first saw Donna Festa's advertisement in the New Art Examiner it attracted me. little did I think I would see the actual work. I did so in Redwing, a community gallery in Penzance, Cornwall. 20 very small, almost miniatures, lined up on one wall driving the point home of displayed title of one
- [Un-childlike](https://newartexaminer.net/un-childlike/) - Rose Wylie at 83 is having success as an artist. She is just as I would have imagined, a terribly middle class bohemian, messy, speaking in that perilously well educated quiet way. I find the work unpleasant, derivative of films without saying anything, clumsily faux naive and it's been taken up with ridiculous enthusiasm. It
- [An Outsider’s Precision](https://newartexaminer.net/an-outsiders-precision/) - Jon Knott, a connoisseur of stones, creates his own mystique, as he’s homeless and lives in a tent in an undisclosed area in the Cornish countryside. This calm, gentle-spoken man has a unique view of the world from his living quarters, which is reflected in his artwork. Rain or shine, though it is very often
- [Swimming in Colour](https://newartexaminer.net/swimming-in-colour/) - Step into confusion; are you are in a fantasy world or in the uncomfortable reality of another individual? Each of the three rooms lead to the next through an arch and each has its own colour, first pink, then orange then green. First a kitsch hair salon with clippings of bright yellow hair on
- [Too Important to Ignore](https://newartexaminer.net/too-important-to-ignore/) - This show redresses the still lacking female voices of post-Ab Ex abstraction. Mary Corse (b. 1945) has had serious recognition for her Minimalist work, which sometimes incorporates neon and fluorescent light, However, she has generally been overshadowed by her many West Coast male peers similarly occupied from the mid-1960s, who soaked up most of the
- [Encounter in Volos](https://newartexaminer.net/encounter-in-volos/) - The exhibition was entitled ‘The Spring If You Cannot Find It, Make It’ …taken from the verse written by the Greek Nobel Prize winning poet Odysseus Elytis was the inspirations behind the 35 participating artists. Their response to his words was personified in a diverse and engaging range of styles and artistic approaches. I was
- [Art Sunbathing](https://newartexaminer.net/art-sunbathing/) - On a warm early July evening, Popps Packing and Emporium presented two artists riffing on summertime escapism through neon-bright palettes and fake palm artifice. Popps Packing Summer Artist Resident Allison Baker hosted an open studio exhibition of mostly free-form sculpture exploding with color and drooping as if from midwestern humidity. The work is so evocative
- [Eva Biennial - Artists’ Referendum on Resistance](https://newartexaminer.net/eva-biennial-artists-referendum-on-resistance/) - Summary: Guerrero created an important invitation to a long, ongoing conversation through orchestrating key voices from many different perspectives. This was not about art market viability, but rather a testimony to the power of collective voices. Juxtapositions of decadence and abjection, survival and compassion, are created with clever consider-ation in each venue of the
- [The Editors Discuss David Wojnarowicz](https://newartexaminer.net/the-editors-discuss-david-wojnarowicz/) - Daniel/Derek, I’d like to write about the Whitney’s current David Wojnarowicz exhibition. Here’s the idea. EVERYONE is writing about it with non-objective, cloying praise. No critic has a bad word to say about it. When I went, I was hugely disappointed. Not in the work (which I love and wrote about) but in the show
- [Remembering the Futurists](https://newartexaminer.net/remembering-the-futurists/) - The title of this massive exhibition at the Fondazione Prada in Milan refers to Tommaso Marinetti’s visual poem, founder of the Futurist movement in the 20s. However, it would not be correct to define it only as an exhibition on futurism because it is much more complex; it took over two years for the curator,
- [An Eclipsed Art Critic Shines Anew](https://newartexaminer.net/an-eclipsed-art-critic-shines-anew/) - SUMMARY: The quintessential art critic of the 1940s was Clement Greenberg, but In later years his dogmatism came under fire. Two volumes of his finest essays, “Perceptions and Judgments, 1939-1944” and ‘Arrogant Purpose, 1945-1949,” edited by John O’Brian (University of Chicago Press, $27.50 each), should help to restore his reputation. Invigorating is the best way
- [John Bedding Interview 22nd June 2018 St Ives, with Derek Guthrie](https://newartexaminer.net/john-bedding-interview-22nd-june-2018-st-ives-with-derek-guthrie/) - Throughout this interview we were happily regaled by seagulls calling across the garden. DG: Well, as you know John, I lived in St Ives in the old days. Over the years I've visited and I kept a low profile but the one thing that stuck in my consciousness as I often visited, is your shop
- [Autonomies of Art](https://newartexaminer.net/autonomies-of-art/) - Never before published in print, a lecture given by Clement Greenberg in Mountain Lake, Virginia in October 1980. Art and life. Art and life as lived can be seen as one and inseparable only when art is experienced sheerly as a phenomenon among other phenomena. Art experienced as art, art experienced aesthetically, "properly," art experienced
- [A Mantle of Scraps: Why Artists Fail](https://newartexaminer.net/a-mantle-of-scraps-why-artists-fail-2/) - It isn’t easy. Deciding to pursue one’s vocation as an artist within the system involves tacit acceptance of probable economic adversity and elusive professional returns, in a capricious field of unreliable values. The compulsion to make sense of life via artistic investigation is a bright new adventure in one's twenties, but it comes under increasing
- [Speakeasy Volume 33.no.1 September / October 2018](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-volume-33-no-1-september-october-2018/) - When I tell people I’m from Detroit, they get excited and want to hear about the “new” Detroit, the “Great Comeback City” as it is now touted on signs at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport. There’s also much interest in the growing art scene here. For me, Detroit is about the people, who are the character,
- [Editorial Volume 33.no.1 September / October 2018](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-33-no-1-september-october-2018/) - There is an interesting idea that, broadly speaking, may be categorized as the ‘psychology of history’. It suggests that because we are a psychological animal still prone to instinct, we can read human history purely from the psychological viewpoint to arrive at a better understanding of why the things that happen, happen. To give you
- [Letters Volume 33.no.1 September / October 2018](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-volume-33-no-1/) - The Joy Of Painting John, After reading your brilliant article (the title was my starting point, as one who appreciates joy), I became curious to know more about Darby Bannard and discovered that a new exhibition of his work will be held at Berry Campbell in New York from November 15 – December 21, 2018.
- [Paradise Lost - The Artist's Studio](https://newartexaminer.net/paradise-lost-the-artists-studio/) - Entering an abandoned artist’s studio in Southwest Cornwall was about as magical and mysterious as it gets. I have visited many artist’s studios, but nothing can compare to the unique experience I had there. The studio wasn’t eccentric or showy; no crowds hanging around hoping for a glimpse of the artist like it was above
- [Peter Lanyon in Italy (from ANSA)](https://newartexaminer.net/peter-lanyon-in-italy-from-ansa/) - La giovane modella di Anticoli e il pittore inglese, quell'amore negato Il figlio dell'artista ha trovato le sue foto e l'ha incontrata 60 anni dopo Di Luciano Fioramonti 24 luglio 201814:15 Stampa Scrivi alla redazione "Piango ancora dopo 65 anni pensando al dolore provato da Peter quando gli hanno detto che stavo per morire. Invece, non
- [Volume 32 no 6 July/August 2018](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-32-no-6-july-august-2018/) - In this issue: We review the life and work of Frida Kahlo in a sixteen page feature with reviews on her latest show in London and Milan and an interview with the co-curator of the Victoria & Albert Show 'Making herself Up' Circe Henestrosa. The Genius of Pablo Picasso by Jane Allen and Derek Guthrie Too
- [Book Review: ‘Shadows in Paradise’ by Erich Maria Remarque](https://newartexaminer.net/book-review-shadows-in-paradise-by-erich-maria-remarque/) - Erich Maria Remarque is remembered for his huge early success, now a classic, the best novel to come out of the First World War. The German title ‘Im Westen Nichts Neues’ (Nothing New on the Western Front), is more poetic but not the same meaning. Was it ever all quiet on the Western front? Outside
- [Machines Can’t Cry](https://newartexaminer.net/machines-cant-cry/) - Hearing a late famous poet recite his own verses as if he were sitting right next to you, watching marionettes deliver a touching performance with no puppeteer pulling the strings, seeing the beauty of the world with the eyes of a loved one who passed away: three works in the show, each occupying a separate
- [Resistance is Frozen](https://newartexaminer.net/resistance-is-frozen/) - For the exhibit, “Architectures of the Body and the Built Environment: Impressions, Sensations and Expressions” at Galerie Pierre Léon Alliance Francaise, Toronto, January 11–February 4, 2017, Canadian sculptor W. Hung includes seven sculptures with heightened physical and metaphorical contrast: using “severe” architectural materials – steel, concrete, marble etc., – alongside expressive, polymer figures. With the
- [Extremely Minimal](https://newartexaminer.net/extremely-minimal/) - There is nothing special about Canadian interdisciplinary artist, Lee Henderson’s installation, Known Effects of Lightning on the Body (2014). Nothing particularly remarkable enough for it to be included in the group exhibit “Weight of Light,” curated by Darryn Doull as part of his University of Toronto Curatorial Studies MVS-degree requirement. Nothing a to-be-curator grad would
- [Manuel Mathieu, Nobody is Watching,](https://newartexaminer.net/manuel-mathieu-nobody-is-watching/) - Haitian Artist Manuel Mathieu, (b. 1986) was raised in an environment infused with both danger and beauty. During the nearly two decades that he stayed in Haiti, he witnessed constant political upheaval in addition to rampant disease, and ongoing natural disasters, while imbibing the rich history of art and independence that is integral to the
- [Howard Finster at Carl Hammer Gallery](https://newartexaminer.net/howard-finster-at-carl-hammer-gallery/) - The first of the texts to grab my attention at Outsider Artist Howard Finster’s current show on display at Carl Hammer Gallery is a white clad angel enveloped in images of flying women in multi-colored dresses titled, “Heaven is for all people.”, completed in 1983. “Heaven is for All People, Jesus makes it plain how
- [Middling Balm](https://newartexaminer.net/middling-balm/) - Patrick Heron at Tate St.Ives Patrick Heron’s writing on art put the St.Ives artists into public view. It's a very enjoyable show with captions featuring remarks Patrick Heron wrote about painting, about the need to achieve balance, about the way the edges of a painting are so important as the onlooker's eyes look from them
- [Francisco Toledo: Mexico’s Psyche](https://newartexaminer.net/francisco-toledo-mexicos-psyche/) - Once again Washington DC’s largely insensitive and lax art community has seen an art maestro come and go. Francisco Toledo, hailing and thriving in Oaxaca Mexico, celebrated throughout the world, stirred not a yawn in the Washington DC art scene. He should have. The work of Toledo is primal, pyscho-sexual abundance, sub-conscious disruption and beauty.
- [Minimalist Respite in Pittsburgh](https://newartexaminer.net/minimalist-respite-in-pittsburgh/) - In this, her third solo show, entitled You Will Arrive, at 707 Gallery, April 28 – June 17, Pittsburgh based artist Kara Skylling’s focus is on crafting intimately scaled, minimalist works on paper utilizing grid-like pencil designs and compartmentalized muted color. It is apparent that Skylling’s carefully conceived, rigidly controlled, underlying designs rely on a
- [Power at the MOMA](https://newartexaminer.net/power-at-the-moma/) - This sprawling Adrian Piper retrospective offers an eye-catching challenge to visitors through its sometimes demure, sometimes hectoring, text-and-photo and performance art. Sticking with it pays off with a reflective, ethical and political pow. Piper was born in New York in 1948 and went with the counter-cultural flow of figurative psychedelia, changed to a somewhat purist
- [Life at the Met](https://newartexaminer.net/life-at-the-met/) - While an ambitious attempt to elide culturally and chronologically diverse, popular, scientific, and artistic sculptures of the human body, The Met’s “Like Life” overreaches. The show is ironically shapeless, despite sub-thematic organizational scheme. In addition, the several carved and polychromed Renaissance martyrs and slightly creepy Victorian material (such as effigies of organic matter and death
- [To The Ends of the Earth](https://newartexaminer.net/to-te-ends-of-the-earth/) - Forest green painted walls are lined by white negative space. The color green is associated with life, harmony, and energy. An explanatory introduction and one thoughtful quote are also painted, but in white. I have an idea of what is to come next. A line of spotlights trail overhead, illuminating every wall, including the entryway,
- [Monet’s Tanks or the Beauty of Warfare](https://newartexaminer.net/monets-tanks-or-the-beauty-of-warfare/) - The above photo is of the NATO Saber Strike exercises in Poland that took place from May to June 2017. Taking away the tanks it could appear to be a painting by Claude Monet; however, the tanks are there, though camouflaged with foliage in a field of flowers. The blue flowers and green grass and
- [Marcel Il Lusoire Frottage](https://newartexaminer.net/marcel-il-lusoire-frottage/) - Marcel Il Lusoire Frottage was born in Eastbourne in 1962 to Huguenot parents. He attended a local school where he suffered much persecution due to his dislike of sport and his already burgeoning interest in the Art World. He left Eastbourne in 1980 and moved to London where he attended the Chelsea School of Art. He
- [A decade too much, Luis Jacob 10 years later](https://newartexaminer.net/a-decade-too-much-of-luis-jacob/) - The best critique of contemporary art shines a light on it — data-driven observation. Postmodernism is the urge to shock; we’re repeatedly told it’s the most exciting art of our time, yet doubts remain. When we deny tradition no one knows what art is anymore; that leaves us clueless, so pioneers carve out new
- [Art Should Not Be a Religion](https://newartexaminer.net/art-should-not-be-a-religion/) - Miklos LegradyEdited by Gabor Podor Neil deGrasse Tyson, in a conversation with Charles Nice, tells us that religion is a mediated experience. “What most people know about their religion is what somebody told them.” Authorities in the field filter religious doctrine; believers are expected to toe the party line.(1) The same is true of art,
- [Volume 40 no 4 March - April 2026](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-40-no-4-march-april-2026/) - The Joker is Wild Scott Sublett (book review about Cesar Romero) Art Should not be a Religion Miklos Legrady Messerschmidt and tiktok Pablo Halguera Frescoes at St Jude’s on the Hill, London Interview Anselm Heifer: The Alchemists Liviana Martin EditorialSPEAKEASY: Jonas Mekas
- [Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-15/) - Artists are all about history: recording it for their times, dealing with for their understanding if the human condition; making it as they create culture. Some time they understand how important this is and yet at others they do not give themselves enough significance. Possibly because writers have had the supreme philosophical vantage point and
- [Jonas Mekas: Art is like trees](https://newartexaminer.net/jonas-mekas-art-is-like-trees/) - Drop me anywhere, into a dry, most lifeless, dead, stone place where nobody likes to live—and I’ll begin to grow and soak it, like a sponge. No abstract internationalism for me. Nor do I put my stakes on the future: I am now and here. Is this because I was uprooted from my home by
- [Cesar Romero: The Joker is Wild, by Samuel Garza Bernstein (University of Kentucky Press, 269 pages)](https://newartexaminer.net/cesar-romero-the-joker-is-wild-by-samuel-garza-bernstein-university-of-kentucky-press-269-pages/) - Scott Sublett The rule of thumb in Hollywood is that just about everyone fails, and you’re a success if you can stay in the game for ten years. Then there was the six-foot-three-inch, queer, Latino dreamboat Cesar Romero, who in his six-decade career made over a hundred feature films, and was in more than twice
- [Frescoes at St Jude’s on the Hill, London.Interview with Phillip Davies](https://newartexaminer.net/frescoes-at-st-judes-on-the-hill-london-interview-with-phillip-davies/) - DN: Hello Philip. PD: Hello, hi, just give me a minute. Can you hear me okDN: I can hear you fine. Thank you very much for coming. PD:Excellent, oh great, okay, good, right I'm in your hands DN: That's fine Philip. I thought, it's only 20 minutes, so what I thought I would do is
- [Minuet for TikTok Face: Facial contortionism from the 18th century to today.](https://newartexaminer.net/minuet-for-tiktok-face-facial-contortionism-from-the-18th-century-to-today/) - Pablo Halguera Because modern art is generally defined as starting in the late 1800s, very few items in MOMA’s holdings predate that period— including a 1842 daguerreotype from the dawn of photography. However, the museum’s design collection includes a small black teacup designed by the English potter Josiah Wedgwood in 1768.The cup’s minimalist, elegant, and unornamented form
- [Anselm Kiefer. The Alchemists](https://newartexaminer.net/anselm-kiefer-the-alchemists/) - Liviana Martin After captivating audiences with his major exhibition at the Palazzo Ducale in Venice, Anselm Kiefer once again delivers a work of powerful symbolic and material impact. The exhibition The Alchemists, installed in the Sala delle Cariatidi at Palazzo Reale in Milan from 7 February to 27 September 2026, brings together forty-two large-scale canvases
- [Did Marcel Duchamp <br>Pave the Way For Donald Trump?](https://newartexaminer.net/did-duchamp-pave-the-way-for-donald-trump/) - Miklos Legrady Observations on a failure of logic in the curatorial complex. Marshall McLuhan pointed out that by the 1960s, art was anything you could get away with. While that sounds exciting it raised concerns - political science says your culture is your future. The conundrum of 2022 is what happens if your future is
- [Speakeasy Volume 36 no 3: Falling Pieces: Academy vs University](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-volume-36-no-3-falling-pieces-academy-vs-university/) - Eleonora Schianchi As a student, I necessarily find myself wondering which educational path would best suit my future career. I have always been passionate about art and, for as long as I can remember, I have always been advised not to devote myself to it. I was born and raised in Italy, the country of
- [Cultural Appreciation, The Justice Warrior,  and The AGO](https://newartexaminer.net/cultural-appreciation-is-the-answer-to-professional-justice-warrior/) - Know thyself. Harder than it seems. Know thy place. Another order of magnitude. As I write I check my place on the privilege spectrum, so that we're not guilty of what we accuse others. Karen K. Ho is an Asian-Canadian writer who lives in New York. In a recent CBC article she spoke of “How
- [John Cage](https://newartexaminer.net/john-cage/) - by Miklos Legrady edited by Gabor Pod Why do we believe some things when they are demonstrably false? Because that is the nature of group dynamics; when sharing common beliefs, disagreement risks alienation. Then how can we correct such errors? Physicist Max Planck wrote that science advances one funeral at a time. Or more precisely:
- [IT’S ALIVE! ROCKY HORROR TURNS 50](https://newartexaminer.net/its-alive-rocky-horror-turns-50/) - Scott Sublett People chatter endlessly about how art has the power to change the world but it seldom happens and when it does it’s often not for the better. Triumph of the Will had a cult following, but not a cult one wanted to encourage. So, now that it’s 50, let’s finally recognize that The
- [The Holy Prison](https://newartexaminer.net/the-holy-prison/) - Isabella Chiadini It is difficult to realize that you are in front of a prison unless you are on the opposite side, beyond the little bridge that crosses the canal, and even then you need to have good eyesight to notice that above a massive door – like many in Venice – there is an
- [Volume 40 no 3 January - February 2026](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-40-no-3-january-february-2026/) - John Cage - Miklos LegradyThe Rocky Horror Picture Show is 50 - Scott SublettA Note on Marc Chagall - Eric Neumann Lucio Fontana in Venice - Liviana MartinThe Plot against America by Phillip Roth - Frances OliverRambert Dancers - Mary FletcherTwo Disparate Parts - Mary FletcherObservations in Paris - Chen HaoyueManifesto for a Disinterested Artistic
- [Editorial January 2026](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-january-2026/) - Separate images throughout this issue are taken from the book Russian Art in the New Millennium (Edward Lucie-Smith and Sergei Reviakin Unicorn 2022).It is interesting to see the artist community in Russia as divided as elsewhere with some nationalistic and some against war, some traditional and some revolutionary. The regular reports we receive that everyone
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-24/) - Edward Lucie-Smith It has now been many years since the fall of the Soviet Union. During that period, Russian visual culture has developed considerably, and has become in many respects unlike that of the previous era – less controlled by the state and much more diverse geographically. Developments in Russian art have been widely misunderstood
- [NOTE ON MARC CHAGALL](https://newartexaminer.net/note-on-marc-chagall/) - Erich Neumann Marc Chagall. The strange painter from Vitebsk is generally regarded as a Romantic, a painter of folklore. Some stress his childlike or primitive quality, others the idyllic aspect of his youth in a small town, or his Jewish milieu. But all these interpretations miss the essential.He is not a great painter of the
- [Before the Cuts: When the Artist Plunged His Hands into the Earth](https://newartexaminer.net/before-the-cuts-when-the-artist-plunged-his-hands-into-the-earth/) - Liviana Martin The Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice dedicates a major exhibition to Lucio Fontana, built entirely around his ceramics: works created between Argentina and Italy – above all in Albisola; which for decades represented the laboratory of his research. It’s an exhibition that overturns the usual narrative: before the cuts, before the Spatial Concepts,
- [The Plot Against America](https://newartexaminer.net/the-plot-against-america/) - book review Frances Oliver The Plot Against America by Philip Roth was first published in 2004, in America by Houghton Mifflin and in Britain by Jonathan Cape, and then by Vintage in 2016. It was recently read as a Book at Bedtime on Radio 4 and is back in the bookshops. No book could be
- [Two Disparate Parts](https://newartexaminer.net/two-disparate-parts/) - Mary Fletcher The first room of her show has a video on a large screen of her blind grandmother slowly feeling around the bases of some enormous Soviet era statues which are in a park near her home. The soundtrack is of soft sounds and the ceiling is hung with aromatic herbs from Lithuania.I sat
- [Observations in Paris](https://newartexaminer.net/observations-in-paris/) - Chen Haoyue Frieze and Basel, nearly at the same time this year.Busy and crowded, golden September and silver October. In contrast, Basel is a bit more diverse than Frieze, with more emerging galleries and bolder artworks selections. In a nutshell, there are still a large sum of paintings on the shelf and walls, and some
- [Manifesto for a Disinterested Artistic Self](https://newartexaminer.net/manifesto-for-a-disinterested-artistic-self/) - (Dedicated to my students)Pablo Halguera The formative years of an artist’s life are often dominated by a single, deceptively simple question: “Who am I?”I was reminded of this recently when speaking with an art student who confessed that this question had become an albatross—less a prompt for reflection than a source of paralysis. While every
- [A Startling Chaos](https://newartexaminer.net/a-startling-chaos/) - Rambert Dancers performed ‘Bring your own’ in collaboration with (LA)HORDE at Hall for Cornwall, Truro October 31st 2025 Mary Fletcher Rambert have been changing. They used to present very beautiful abstract works, lots of dancers in skin-tight colourful costumes, often performing in unison with impressive skill.The skill, commitment and unison moves are still there but
- [Issue 40 no 2 November - December 2025](https://newartexaminer.net/issue-40-no-2-november-december-2025/) - Articles
- [Editorial March April 2024](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-march-april-2024/) - In his Speakeasy, Miklos Legrady asks What is Art? He admits art is not everything, going on to comment that art is not what is said but how it is said. Perhaps art includes what is said, as the artist chooses what topics to expound on and chooses the opinion he produces in their artwork,
- [A.I Threatens Artists](https://newartexaminer.net/a-i-threatens-artists/) - by Miklos Legrady Artists often turn into Luddites over Artificial Intelligence, worried A.I. will take over their jobs. As far as we can tell, for many the answer is yes, of course it will. But can an algorithm match the prose of a Shakespeare or the empathy of a Käthe Kollwitz? Likely not. Luddites were
- [Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-14/) - In his 1969 book Artworks and Packages (Dell Publishing) Harold Rosenberg made a very succinct throw-away comment “ … the possibility that the total victory of the media will lead to the monopoly of a single type of imagination.” It is a succinct and alarming reality today. I have for many years said that humanity
- [Speakeasy: UNESCO (edited)](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-unesco-edited/) - This is how a committee will review your work Study the OLD to discover the NEW:Understand the PAST to invent the FUTURE. Curators and managers represents two different approaches for the management of museums. Curators value the masterpieces and many times forget management. Managers value daily management and sometimes forget about the masterpiece. UNESCO: Main
- [The Crisis of Art History](https://newartexaminer.net/the-crisis-of-art-history/) - Irving Lavin Theory in My TimeWhen 1 entered graduate school in the history of art at the Institute of Fine Arts in New York in the early 1950s, theory was the farthest thing from my mind. In fact, for me and for many of my cohorts, theory was a rather suspect concept, tainted as it
- [Criss Cross](https://newartexaminer.net/criss-cross/) - The Making of Hitchcock’s Dazzling, Subversive Masterpiece Strangers on a Train by Stephen Rebello, Running Press 2025 Scott Sublett Back when I taught film history to undergrads I touted Strangers on a Train as “the best Hitchcock movie you’ve never seen.” It is not his best film (for reasons we’ll get into later) but good
- [The Shape of Tone](https://newartexaminer.net/the-shape-of-tone/) - Pablo Halguera I want to begin with two museum experiences – seemingly unrelated – that frame what has been on my mind this week.In 2019, Amy Sillman was invited to organize an Artist’s Choice exhibition at MoMA. She chose a deceptively simple focus: shape. In her view, shape had been oddly neglected in the discourse
- [The Painted Gold](https://newartexaminer.net/the-painted-gold/) - El Greco and Painting between Crete and Venice: When icons meet the lagoon: a journey of light, faith, and encounters between cultures Liviana Martin The title alone is enough to capture the imagination, even before stepping into the halls of the Doge’s Palace, where the exhibition will remain open until September 29. Gold and painting,
- [Talking Posh](https://newartexaminer.net/talking-posh/) - Mary Fletcher Recently I found out that two artists I came into contact with years ago were not as I thought from a different class from my own working class origins.The first is Julian Spalding, who was on the same BA course as me at Nottingham University in the 60’s although he started the year
- [Floating in the Seaside Shop](https://newartexaminer.net/floating-in-the-seaside-shop/) - Mushrooms, Threads and Gondola, On renewal, ruin and soft resistance along the Sussex coast, Unit 2 Gallery, St Leonards-on-Sea, June 2025 David Goldenberg The former vintage shop on London Road, became the incubating capsule for Mushrooms, Threads, and Gondola, a solo exhibition by artist Huan Wang, curated by Haoyue Chen. Both from China, who had
- [Homovictimus](https://newartexaminer.net/homovictimus/) - Hakki Tan In an era defined by accelerated economic globalization, ubiquitous digital infrastructures, and a marked erosion of statehood, the traditional categories of individual autonomy, agency, and political subjectivity warrant a radical reassessment. Individuals in the neoliberal present are no longer adequately understood as mere citizens or passive consumers, but rather as victims who are
- [The Gods Who Failed](https://newartexaminer.net/the-gods-that-failed/) - Miklos Legrady There's a 1968 BBC interview when Duchamp said that art was discredited, he meant to get rid of art like some got rid of religion.[1] It was also the moment the penny dropped. The urinal now made sense; it says that art is to piss on, whicj really does discredit art. Such "shocking"
- [Volume 38 no 4 March / April 2024 SPEAKEASY](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-38-no-4-march-april-2024-speakeasy/) - What Is Art?
- [A Woke Autopsy of  <br>Canadian  Art Magazine](https://newartexaminer.net/forensic-autopsy-of-an-art-magazine/) - CanadianArt Magazine was 78 years old when it collapsed (1943 -2021). The Board of Directors blamed Covid-19 for a drop in readers and advertising, despite a newly energized editorial staff of justice warriors, postmodern, politically-aware, socially conscious writers and editors. That statement may hold a clue to why things went south, while rival magazine MOMUS
- [If you’re a recent MFA or PhD you’re not an artist nor a curator.](https://newartexaminer.net/artist-mfu/) - -“They are like high priests murmuring to each other” \Camille Paglia A recent PhD graduate aiming at a curatorial career published her book “What is our Role?: Artists in Academia and the Post-Knowledge Economy,ARC ArtistBooks (Canada). The speaker, reflecting on what she learned on her own journey through academia, said that artists
- [Ydessa Hendeles’s: Grand Hotel](https://newartexaminer.net/ydessa-hendeless-grand-hotel/) - by Miklos Legrady edited by Gabir Podo art of political resistance An Art of Political Resistance Ydessa Hendeles’s newest work, Grand Hotel, shares common ground with Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale. Both mine the past to prevent its repetition. While Atwood’s tale describes a futuristic puritan state, Hendeles’s Grand Hotel is a documentary recalling the
- [Volume 40 no 1 September - October 2025](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-40-no-1-september-october-2025/) - Public and Private Purpose Pablo Halguera‘Sick and Dirty’ Queerness in Hollywood’s Golden Age Scott SublettArt History and Karl Marx Nicole BennettBasil dress David GoldenbergTwo recent art controversies Marcel Van Den Haak The Shrouds Frances OliverArt of Political Resistance Miklos LegradyHollywood Pride: Scott Sublett SPEAKEASY: The Christ of Lecco Thaer GhaliEditorial
- [Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-13/) - Matthew Arnold (1822 – 1888), Walter Horatio Pater (1839 – 1894) and Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900).George Orwell writing in 1941, suggests that art for art’s sake emerged with the thinking of these men or at least, in their times. He writes from the perspective that 1939 had changed everything more absolutely than 1914 ever
- [The Christ of Lecco: When Hidden Truth Speaks and Awakens History from Its Slumber](https://newartexaminer.net/the-christ-of-lecco-when-hidden-truth-speaks-and-awakens-history-from-its-slumber/) - Thaer Ghali is an artist and art critic, specializing in Renaissance arts. He is an Arts collector and Art dealer. He lives in Dubai. He is the Consiglio Internazionale di Cooperazione Italo Arabo delegate in the UAE. In a time clouded by doubt, where bold discoveries are often stifled by the clamor of skepticism and
- [Public and Private Purpose](https://newartexaminer.net/public-and-private-purpose/) - Pablo Halguera An urban legend has circulated for years about Diane Arbus’s Guggenheim Fellowship application (Arbus is top of mind right now due to the current survey of her work at the Park Armory in New York (Constellation, ended August 17th). According to that story, in the section of the grant where one is asked
- [Censoring “Sick and Dirty” Queerness in Hollywood’s Golden Age](https://newartexaminer.net/censoring-sick-and-dirty-queerness-in-hollywoods-golden-age/) - Scott Sublett Book Review: “Sick and Dirty: Hollywood’s Gay Golden Age and the Making of Modern Queerness” by Michael Koresky, 320 pages, Bloomsbury Publishing In 1934, when Lillian Hellman finished her play The Children’s Hour, homosexuality on Broadway was unthinkable, yet somehow the play got on. Her villain was a conniving little rich girl who
- [Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film](https://newartexaminer.net/hollywood-pride-a-celebration-of-lgbtq-representation-and-perseverance-in-film/) - Scott Sublett Film critic Alonso Duralde’s “Hollywood Pride: A Celebration of LGBTQ+ Representation and Perseverance in Film” covers the waterfront of queer cinema, starting with “Dickson Experimental Sound Film,” W.K.L. Dickson’s 1894 experiment in synchronous sound that has two male Edison employees dancing together as Dickson saws the violin. Duralde then carries the reader through
- [Two Recent Art Controversies](https://newartexaminer.net/two-recent-art-controversies/) - Marcel van den Haak Over the past few years, there have been many examples of progressive art criticism that caused heated debates, eventually resulting in ‘cancellation’ or – a moderate solution – contextualisation. This essay shows the similarities between two cases that differ in three significant aspects: country, art discipline and type of moral issue.Chronologically,
- [Basil Dress](https://newartexaminer.net/basil-dress/) - David GoldenbergUnmaking and remaking the infrastructure of Western Art The British/Indian UK based artist Peter Fillingham has for some time been recognized as an exceptional artist, curator and teacher. Who has, unlike few artists in the UK, risked being ambitious, which we could see in the collaborations with the artist, curator, writer and executive editor
- [The Shrouds](https://newartexaminer.net/the-shrouds/) - Frances Oliver I am fortunate in belonging to a small film club mainly featuring old films; its weekly shows take up most of my movie-going. I am also partial to – not too gruesome – horror movies; so when I saw our Newlyn cinema was showing a David Kronenberg film, The Shrouds, I thought I
- [Ydessa Hendeles, The Milliner’s Daughter, at the Power Plant, Toronto](https://newartexaminer.net/ydessa-hendeles-the-milliners-daughter-at-the-power-plant-toronto/) - Miklos Legrady Ydessa Hendeles is that rare curator-artist gifted with talent. The Milliner’s Daughter at the Power Plant was an original curio with haunting depth, I doubt anyone in town has such imagination. It’s just like Emily Carr described: “Oh, God, what have I seen? Where have I been? Something has spoken to the very
- [Did DADA Create MAGA? Part 1](https://newartexaminer.net/did-dada-create-maga-part-1/) - Miklos Legrady Derrida’s method of deconstruction was to look past the irony and ambiguity to the layer of contradictions that genuinely threaten to collapse that system. This is the model we aim to follow, although some irony is unavoidable. Now that Trump signed tariffs into law, perhaps creating the 2nd Great Depression, we need
- [Did DADA Create MAGA? Part 2](https://newartexaminer.net/did-dada-create-maga-part-2/) - A Dismal Failure of Peer Review Decolonizing Marcel Duchamp by Miklos Legrady As an artist the author must consider the political implications of art. A student of mine said that art has no real consequence, much like Duchamp who said that art is but a decoration for the living room wall. No such statements are
- [NAE Volume 39 no 6 July - August 2025](https://newartexaminer.net/nae-volume-39-no-6-july-august-2025/) - Articles Robin Spalding interview IMT Gallery, London Colonial Dreamscapes Pablo Halguera Did DADA create MAGA? Part 2 Miklos Legrady Economics of Artists in Delft 17th century I M Montias REVIEWS Rauschenberg and the 20th century? Liviana Martin Salgado: The Spectre of Hope Mary Fletcher Liliane Lijn: Arise Alive Mary Fletcher Departments: SPEAKEASY: Ken Turner in
- [Gallery](https://newartexaminer.net/gallery/)
- [Volume 39 no 6 EDITORIAL](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-39-no-6-editorial/) - Many art professional are aware that the art arena as a whole is shifting but none of them are sure where it is going to land. We are in an unnerving moment where those invested financially are trying to work out both where the new investment is going to go, where the existing investment is
- [Volume 39 no 6 SPEAKEASY](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-39-no-6-speakeasy/) - Ken Turner is a performer, film maker, artist, member of the Newlyn Society of Artists. His video in an original Sherman tank from WW2 driving over a Tesla car in a protest against the fascism of Elon Musk has had half a million views and 57,000 likes at time of publishing. Video here
- [IMT Gallery: Hybrid Mutant Entity](https://newartexaminer.net/imt-gallery-hybrid-mutant-entity/) - Robin Spalding speaks to Mark Rohtmaa Jackson and Lindsay Friend about the 20 year history IMT Gallery, one of London’s most vibrant artist-run spaces. Robin Spalding (RS): What were your aims when you started IMT in 2005? Mark Rohtmaa-Jackson M R-J): Both of us were artists and we were frustrated with the different art-scenes that
- [Colonial Dreamscapes](https://newartexaminer.net/colonial-dreamscapes/) - An artist's profitable creation of an imaginary past. Pablo Halguera This past weekend, while visiting Greenwich, Connecticut—one of the most affluent towns in the United States—I wandered through one of its neighborhoods, lined with elegant homes that evoked a carefully curated sense of history. As I walked, I found myself reflecting on how beauty and
- [Salgado: The Spectre of Hope](https://newartexaminer.net/salgado-the-spectre-of-hope/) - Mary Fletcher This program was repeated in June 2025 because the Brazilian photographer Sebastian Salgado died in May aged 81. It was preceded by an Omnibus showing his vibrant pictures of manual labour. The Arena program shows Salgado ‘ in conversation’ with John Berger although it’s more that they speak in turn. The photography is
- [The economic status of artists and artisans in Delft in the 17th century](https://newartexaminer.net/the-economic-status-of-artists-and-artisans-in-delft-in-the-17th-century/) - John M Montias In Delft, as elsewhere, a young boy's chances in life depended critically on his parent's ability to finance his training. If you were poor, as were the wards of the Camer van Charitate, the best he can hope for, within the range of trades encompassed in the Guild of St Lucas, was
- [Rauschenberg and the Twentieth Century](https://newartexaminer.net/rauschenberg-and-the-twentieth-century/) - Liviana Martin The exhibition dedicated to Robert Rauschenberg on the centenary of his birth (Port Arthur 1925 – Captiva Island 2008) is on display in Milan at the Museo del Novecento, recently renovated with an installation that imagines the museum as a space of communication between interior and exterior — a play of connections between
- [Liliane Lijn: Arise Alive](https://newartexaminer.net/liliane-lijn-arise-alive/) - Mary Fletcher Liliane Lijn’s work fills the new gallery at Tate St.Ives, making a dramatic expression of her long life as an artist and she was there at the private view. How great indeed to see a woman artist celebrated whilst still alive. In the 1960s she began using technology to make kinetic work using
- [The Corruption of Canadian Art: Geoffrey Farmer in Venice, 2017.](https://newartexaminer.net/geoffrey-farmer-a-way-out-of-the-mirror-2017-canadian-pavilion-in-venice/) - André Breton wrote of the Readymade in the Surrealist Dictionary; “an ordinary object elevated to the dignity of a work of art by the mere choice of an artist”.(10 Duchamp himself said the opposite; “I wanted to do something that was not art, had no reference to art, and could never be mistaken for a
- [Bruce Barber  Littoral act <br> and communicative action](https://newartexaminer.net/once-upon-an-outgoing-tide/) - Miklos Legrady Bruce Barber defined the notion of littoral as “the intermediate and shifting zone between the sea and the land”, which “characterizes works that are undertaken predominantly outside of the conventional contexts of the institutionalized art world.” One example was his project ‘Diddly Squat: Three Works about Money’, performed in Toronto in November 2002.
- [Against Racism, Against Sexism, Against Ageism](https://newartexaminer.net/against-racism-against-sexism-against-ageism/) - Miklos Legrady, Toronto, In a local comic strip, a child chastises his shamefaced father for never having done anything to change the name of Toronto’s Dundas street; the father didn't even known that Dundas was a racist oppressor. But then, why pick on Dundas? In the 18th century all British aristocrats were racist oppressors. As
- [Jerry Saltz <br>and the devil in disguise.](https://newartexaminer.net/rediscovering-the-right-to-be-wrong/) - I was bribed to undertake this hatchet job on Jerry Saltz who, when young, wrote for the New Art Examiner. I have no beef with him myself but my editor offered marriage to his eldest daughter with the olive groves as a dowry. Or was it a laurel wreath? I have nothing against his
- [Sol Lewitt Demystified](https://newartexaminer.net/sol-lewitt-demystified/) - Behind the blind spot Sol LeWitt's visual art shows the geometric complexity of dynamic expansions, and he's also a highly respected art theorist whose statements on conceptual art establish him as one of the leading intellectual lights of that movement. Unfortunately Sol Lewitt’s writing makes no sense at all. Lewitt’s visual achievements none can doubt,
- [The Curious Case of Marcel Duchamp](https://newartexaminer.net/the-curious-case-of-marcel-duchamp/) - Marcel Duchamp was made in the U.S.A., the urinal called The Fountain and signed R.Mutt wasn't Duchamp's, and Duchamp consistently said Found Objects cannot be art. Part 1 – Without Prejudice This article differs from previous Duchamp studies in having no commitment to the belief that he made great art. That remaps his place
- [Anatoli Vlassov: To Dance for COVID-19](https://newartexaminer.net/anatoli-vlassov-to-dance-for-covid-19/) - Les phonésies covid de Anatoli Vlassov Every day through the 2021 COVID-19 confinement period in Paris , Anatoli Vlassov created #DancesWithWords, a half hour online performance using the Facebook video platform. In the year of the plague 1665, Samuel Pepys wrote: “This day, much against my Will, I did in Drury-lane see two or
- [Information Theory <br> Shake That Tree!](https://newartexaminer.net/information-theory/) - Information Theory In 1948, Claude Shannon of Bell Telephone Laboratories published two papers on a system he called Information Theory. In his paper Shannon proved that disorder or haphazard noise contains a message. Most interesting of all, Shannon’s math for describing information was identical to equations devised in the Victorian era to explain entropy. The
- [Scouting the Blogs <br> with Miklos Legrady](https://newartexaminer.net/scouting-the-blogs-with-miklos-legrady-3/) - I'm Hyperallergic to Francis Bacon. I never thought highly of Bacon because he was a one-trick pony who could have gone so much further. My critique is one of disappointment at a great talent barely fulfilled. This painting doesn’t differ that much from his other work. It has the shading and transparency of Bacon’s
- [Scouting the Blogs with <br>Miklos Legrady](https://newartexaminer.net/scouting-the-blogs/) - Rachel Harrison Blake Gopnik wrote on Facebook that Rachel Harrison’s work "inhabits the art world with zero friction. It ticks every box for what art is supposed to look like and be and do". FACEPALM! TI'd say Rachel Harrison has no idea what art is, like so many artists who graduate from the university of
- [MOCA Toronto + The Trendy Thing](https://newartexaminer.net/mocatoronto/) - The Toronto Argonauts are a Canadian football team competing in the East Division of the Canadian Football League. Occasionally in the coming years the team may simply not play. Sitting out the clock without engaging the ball is an unexpected game strategy. The wind might nudge the ball here and there and thus the
- [Iain Baxter& & the Ampers&](https://newartexaminer.net/iain-baxter-the-ampers/) - review by Miklos Legrady “Don’t look at this unless you’re ready for anything. Ok. Sit down and with a pair of scissors cut 4 inches off your tie and please mail it immediately to Iain Baxter Pres. N.E.Thing Co (address supplied)… Now you are ready for anything.” (N.E.Thing Co. 1967 Xerox.) Disclosure; I did
- [Volume 39 no 5 May - June 2025](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-39-no-5-may-june-2025/) - Synchromism Manifesto Stanton MacDonald Wright Marriage, Booze and Beauty in the 20th Century Scott Sublett Katlyn Arnold's |Three Ring Circus Wynn Parks Did Dada Create Maga? Miklos Legrady The Beautiful Protest Pablo Halguera The Metamorphosis of Beautiful Things Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi REVIEWS FROM CINDY SHERMAN TO FRANCESCO VEZZOLI Liviana Martin LIBERTY VALANCE AND TRUMP Mary
- [Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-12/) - Daniel Benshana War is haunting us again. It never left the world but Europe has been quiet for nearly eighty years. They say the numbers killed in conflict today, in historical terms, are not that great but then the wise in the world tell us that when one person dies it is the end
- [Images of War](https://newartexaminer.net/images-of-war/)
- [Speakeasy: Culture should inform politics – not the other way round](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-culture-should-inform-politics-not-the-other-way-round/) - Translated from the German of Berthold Hinz in his book Art in the Third Reich And what do they fabricate? The formed cripples and Christians, women who inspire nothing but discuss, human beings that are more animal than human, children who, if they look like this, could be nothing but God's curse on us! And
- [Statement On Synchromism 1960](https://newartexaminer.net/statement-on-synchromism-1960/) - Stanton McDonald Wright Statement On Synchromism 1960, as printed in the catalogue of the Forum exhibition of Modern American Painters, New York, Anderson Galleries March 1916 I strived to divest my art will anecdote an illustration, and to purify it to the point with the emotions of the spectator will be wholly aesthetic, as when
- [MARRIAGE, BOOZE, AND BEAUTY IN THE 20th CENTURY](https://newartexaminer.net/marriage-booze-and-beauty-in-the-20th-century/) - Scott Sublett Philip Gefter’s “Cocktails with George and Martha: Movies, Marriage, and the Making of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” (Bloomsbury Publishing, 368 pages), while mostly about the 1966 film version, spends quite a few of its most interesting pages on the birth of the 1962 stage play. Edward Albee had made his name with
- [Katlyn Arnold's Three Ring Art Circus](https://newartexaminer.net/katlyn-arnolds-three-ring-art-circus/) - Wynn Parks Artist Katlyn Arnold is from DeFuniak Springs- semi-quaint, Our Town, DeFuniak Springs! So, Katlyn puts a whole different slant on what lurks in the soul of the sedate and semi-quaint. Not that the artist herself is either quaint or sedate; far from it. She meets me on the grounds near her father's welding
- [From Cindy Sherman to Francesco Vessoli](https://newartexaminer.net/from-cindy-sherman-to-francesco-vessoli/) - Liviana Martin The works exhibited in this show belong to the art collection owned by the lawyer Iannaccone, which includes more than 150 works by 80 contemporary artists, established figures such as Cindy Sherman, Nan Goldin, Francesco Vezzoli, or young emerging artists. Through the interpretative filter of art, the show addresses themes linked to
- [The Beautiful Protest](https://newartexaminer.net/the-beautiful-protest/) - Our aesthetic expectations of political art. Pablo Halguera A few weeks ago I was in a group conversation with art collectors, most of which are supporters of contemporary art organizations. Our discussion centred on how artists are responding to the current political climate, with a particular focus on the role art institutions should play in
- [Liberty Valance and Trump](https://newartexaminer.net/liberty-valance-and-trump/) - Mary Fletcher I was watching the film The man who shot Liberty Valance from 1962, directed by John Ford. It’s a good film with three archetypal male figures. John Wayne plays a strong silent type, good at fighting and shooting, and on the side of behaving well, passionate about a woman and desolate and angry
- [Sir Eduardo Luigi Paolozzi CBE RA ](https://newartexaminer.net/sir-eduardo-luigi-paolozzi-cbe-ra/) - From The Metamorphosis Of Ordinary Things, 1959 I suppose I am interested, above all, in investigating the golden ability of the artist to achieve the metamorphosis of quite ordinary things into something wonderful and extraordinary that is neither nonsensical nor morally edifying. I seek to stress all that is wonderful or ambiguous in the most
- [An artist with Purpose](https://newartexaminer.net/an-artist-with-purpose/) - Nancy Nesvet “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter” (Martin Luther King Jr.) Rodney Zelenka has clearly chosen this path, having told me that he believes in the need humans have for purpose in life, to leave footprints that honor our forefathers and shed light for the paths
- [‘You’re Either with Me or Against Me’:The Lethal Morality Of Political Art](https://newartexaminer.net/youre-either-with-me-or-against-methe-lethal-morality-of-political-art/) - Jorge M. Benitez What is political art? More importantly, what does it achieve? Political art is as varied, nuanced, and contextual as its makers, patrons, and viewers. The questions become even more complex when the art itself begins as one genre and ends as another. Is Michelangelo political? Did not his religious sculptures and paintings
- [The Naked Truth](https://newartexaminer.net/the-naked-truth/) - Daniel Benshana Cartoons – briefly described as caricatures of a person to make a political point were trialled in the English civil War (1642-1651) at a time when it didn't matter the quality of the paper as long as you got your message out every day to the assembled populace and your troops. Thousands of
- [Henry Cruikshank’s Moment](https://newartexaminer.net/henry-cruikshanks-moment/) - In early nineteenth-century Britain, political cartooning was a major form of protest art, so much so that in today’s digital media, nineteenth-century political cartoons are still reprinted as illustrations in accounts of many events and controversies from that century. Why was cartooning then such a big deal? To begin with, along with theatre, caricature -
- [The Korean Peninsula In Four Parts](https://newartexaminer.net/the-korean-peninsula-in-four-parts/) - Rina Oh Pachinko, an Apple Plus original limited series based on the best-selling novel by Min Jin Lee, is a story about the struggling colonial Joseon era in Korea, 1905-WWII. Season 1 introduced audiences to the main character in the series, Sunja portrayed by Korean actress Mina Kim. Sunja, an only child is born into
- [Art in Migration](https://newartexaminer.net/art-in-migration/) - Richard Vine Human migration is ultimately political. This is obvious in cases of forced relocation, such as the expulsion of Christian Armenians from the Ottoman Em- pire—a geopolitical policy decision, entailing death marches and executions, that is obliquely but very touchingly evoked in Arshile Gorky’s canvas The Artist and His Mother (1926-36), which depicts the
- [Wesselmann’s Easy Catch](https://newartexaminer.net/wesselmanns-easy-catch/) - Elga Wimmer Designed by Frank Gehry, the Paris based Louis Vuitton Foundation with its soaring glass and steel architecture spanning several floors, is the ideal venue for this impressive exhibition of 1960’s through early 2000’s paintings and multi-media work by Tom Wesselmann (1931 – 2024). Pop Forever Tom Wesselmann & …, which runs from October
- [The Intimacy of Politics](https://newartexaminer.net/the-intimacy-of-politics/) - Elizabeth Ashe There are several, genre-crossing phrases in the art world that are truly definable. The Personal is Political was coined by the feminist movement. Realizing that politics crosses boundaries, from countries to families, Doris Salcedo, Jeffrey Gibson, and Suzanne Brennan Firstenberg are making work that underscores the personal as political, giving the viewer space
- [“I’d Like to Thank the Academy“](https://newartexaminer.net/id-like-to-thank-the-academy/) - Book Review of “50 Oscar Nights: Iconic Stars & Filmmakers on Their Career-Defining Wins“ by Dave Karger. Running Press Adult, 272 pages. Scott Sublett At the top of every MGM picture, a golden motto encircles a roaring lion: “Ars Gratia Artis“. Though a for-profit corporation, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer nobly scorned filthy lucre and transitory glory. “Art for
- [David’s Labyrinth](https://newartexaminer.net/davids-labyrinth-2/) - Daniel Benshana Visiting London one is often drawn to the galleries and museums making the most noise in the press but sometimes one comes across a smaller, quieter installation which captures the imagination in a way the Tate has failed to do for decades. St Jude's Church in 1, The Square, Hampstead Garden
- [Class of ‘24](https://newartexaminer.net/class-of-24/) - Mary Fletcher There are about 100 artists in the show, most of them women. Falmouth Combined University doesn’t give this huge exhibition much publicity and in three hours I only see six other visitors. Several buildings are left open without any invigilators. There is no information about what the course content is so we only
- [Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour](https://newartexaminer.net/vanessa-bell-a-world-of-form-and-colour/) - Carrie Lee In the midst of a radically changing world, Vanessa Bell painted her life, used her privilege to foster artists and had lifelong relationships with key artistic and intellectual figures that changed our cultural landscape. She began the Bloomsbury group with her sister Virginia Woolf and with friends and lovers who believed that a
- [Voyage of the Corinne](https://newartexaminer.net/voyage-of-the-corinne/) - Wynn Parks Two months after Brett has died in a Boston hospital, Gail and I laboriously paddled out onto the Aegean. It's a hot day; a day for sunglasses. The paunchy inflatable in which we kneel, needs bailing. Brett has named the little life-raft after Picasso's grand painting, Guernica. In better times, Guernica has served
- [Jean Tinguely](https://newartexaminer.net/jean-tinguely/) - Liviana Martin On 22 May 2025, the centenary of the birth of Jean Tinguely, born in Fribourg in 1925 and died in Bern in 1991, will be celebrated with exhibitions and conferences throughout Europe. It is a fitting recognition for the visionary artist, a pioneer of the twentieth century, who revolutionized the very concept of
- [Trying to Understand the Art of National Socialism](https://newartexaminer.net/trying-to-understand-the-art-of-national-socialism/) - David Goldenberg Anyone who wants to look at art under national socialism between 1933 – 1945 is confronted by severe problems. The first is thegGlobal ban on exhibiting art of the period because of a sense of guilt by association, and even arrest and imprisonment in some countries. The art of national socialism is also
- [Escaping With Reason](https://newartexaminer.net/escaping-with-reason/) - Pablo Halguera reprinted from http://pablohelguera.net There are two models of antagonistic dialogic knowledge that I find particularly productive and that are best described using architectural analogies. Interestingly, these are models that, once in operation, people participating in them tend to become uncomfortable and combative— which paradoxically is what makes the models work. First, the escape
- [Man As His Own Creator](https://newartexaminer.net/man-as-his-own-creator/) - Dürer and Beuys – or the affirmation of creativity Peter Klaus Schuster 1. An expanded concept of art The Joseph Beuys – or so it seemed – Albrecht Dürer was not a terribly important object of reflection or source of artistic productivity. The work produced during document five in 1972 is known though. This connects
- [Everyone Is Talented](https://newartexaminer.net/everyone-is-talented/) - Gábor Gaál Published in 1929, From Material to Architecture contains the main features of László Moholy-Nagy’s teaching program at the Bauhaus I read a book which radiates living wisdom. The book was published in German. Its title, translated, From Material To Architecture, is quite forbidding. At first glance, one would think that the author is
- [Speakeasy: The Press Remembers](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-the-press-remembers/) - Frances Oliver Recently an old (in both senses) friend, whose increasing macular degeneration does not allow for him to do it himself, gave me the task of sorting half a century of newspaper clippings, with a view to then disposing of most. My friend and I are pretty much on the same political wave length
- [NAE Vol 39 no. 4 March - April 2025: Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/nae-vol-39-no-4-march-april-2025-editorial/) - Daniel Benshana The art arena always seems to be in some crisis, somewhere or everywhere. Reflecting, perhaps, the intellectual artistic and financial crises of so many artists down the ages. No less a crisis faced the world in the 2nd World War where culture was deeply involved in the ‘New German Man’, the ‘New
- [NAE Vol 39 no 4 March - April 2025](https://newartexaminer.net/nae-vol-39-no-4-march-april-2025/)
- [Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-11/) - Nancy Nesvet At a chaotic time in our shared world, like 1918 when Tristan Tzara authored the Dada Manifesto, when art as action and idea dominated, surpassing the objet d’ art, to be concerned with change, and especially rapid change, immediacy and destruction, we find conceptual art and spectacles of art today with roots in
- [Speakeasy: With Darkness Came Stars’ a memoir](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-with-darkness-came-stars-a-memoir/) - Each issue, the New Art Examiner invites a well-known, or not so well-known, art world personality to write a speakeasy essay on a topic of interest. Mary Fletcher is a multimedia artist Flaneur: www. axisweb.org/p/maryfletcher She has an MA in contemporary visual art and writes the blog: 4maryfletcher.blogspot.com. She is a humanist, feminist and socialist,
- [Volume 39 No 2 Nov – Dec 2024](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-39-no-2-nov-dec-2024/) - ARTICLES PARIS AND THE AESTHETICS OF COMPLEXITY Jorge Benitez MINIMAL EFFECTIVENESS IN PARIS David Goldenberg AFRICAN DIASPORA IN PARIS Lanita Brooks-Colbert FROM REVOLUTION TO EVOLUTION Maryanne Pollock ARTE POVERA ART IS ITS OWN FAMILY Nancy Nesvet REVIEWS TAKING A PAUSE TO BREATHE, TO BE STILL Lorenzo Cardim ART IN THE OCEAN Annie Markovich HEAR HER
- [Minimal Effectiveness in Paris](https://newartexaminer.net/minimal-effectiveness-in-paris/) - David Goldenberg During the opening of Sharjah Biennale 2023, l met a selector of one of the Venice Biennale Pavilions, who said that as a consequence of Brexit, international money for Art intended for London, would now shift to the arts in Paris. I had no way of knowing whether this was true or not,
- [Paris and the Aesthetics of Complexity](https://newartexaminer.net/paris-and-the-aesthetics-of-complexity/) - Jorge Benitez “You don’t arrest Voltaire.” Charles de Gaulle, 1968 Charles de Gaulle was a soldier and a patriot. He was also an intellectual steeped in the great tradition of French letters. Years before its capitulation in 1940, he had accurately outlined how Nazi Germany would defeat France. Unfortunately, the French high command did not
- [Arte Povera: Art is its Own Family](https://newartexaminer.net/arte-povera-art-is-its-own-family/) - Nancy Nesvet Arte Povera, (Poor Art), an Italian movement championing new experiments in visual art, music, literature, installation and performance, was first announced to the public via a manifesto entitled, Notes on a Guerilla War by Germano Celant, first published in Flash Art’s, November-December 1967 issue. Arte Povera is most often cited as a movement
- [African Diaspora and Paris: Black Influence in 19th Century Modernism](https://newartexaminer.net/african-diaspora-and-paris-black-influence-in-19th-century-modernism/) - Lanita Brooks-Colbert Since the 18th Century, France and its capital, Paris was considered the center of the art world. Parisians witnessed the end of the reign of Louis XIV with Paris becoming center stage of the Enlightenment. Philosophers, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Diderot, produced world-changing ideas, contributing to the city's reputation for cultural sophistication. This period
- [Hear Her Speak](https://newartexaminer.net/hear-her-speak/) - Mary Fletcher Małgorzata Mirga-Tas, a Polish artist, has been the first Roma to represent her country at the Venice Biennale 2022 and Tate St Ives are showing her first major exhibition in UK. Małgorzata Mirga-Tas was at the Tate when I went, looking lovely in a glittering gold blouse and layered black skirt worn with
- [Taking a Pause to Breathe, to Be Still](https://newartexaminer.net/taking-a-pause-to-breathe-to-be-still/) - Lorenzo Cardim Resting in the heart of a small village in Champagne, France, Château d’Orquevaux seemed to exist beyond the grasp of time. The stones of the Château held the memories of those who had passed through—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s dreams, Denis Diderot’s words—all lingering in the air like the mist that hovered over the valley
- [Art in the Ocean](https://newartexaminer.net/art-in-the-ocean/) - Annie Markovich Artist Nicola Bealing presents underwater creatures crafted from salvaged or recycled materials in the upper gallery, filling the room with curious, delightful sea plants and animals suspended from the ceiling. Dead Man’s Fingers’ colorful name suggests grotesque images. I was dead wrong. Bealing developed the paintings over 10 years and captured the mysterious
- [Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-10/) - I fell in love again with Paris this fall, while attending Art Basel and skipping out after a cursory view of the show to imbibe the exhibitions and museum shows this city of art affords. I spent days visiting private collectors’ art, seen through golden bubbles of champagne, to roaming the Louvre’s galleries, visiting Rembrandt’s
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-23/) - Each issue, the New Art Examiner invites a well-known, or not so well-known, art world personality to write a speakeasy essay on a topic of interest. In this slightly different issue we are printing the personal memories of Paris, France of several art professionals. Maria Balshaw, Director of the Tate, Sophie Kazan professor at Falmouth
- [From Revolution to Evolution : Paris 1874](https://newartexaminer.net/from-revolution-to-evolution-paris-1874/) - PARIS 1874: THE IMPRESSIONIST MOMENT Maryanne Pollock Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC illustrates Paris at the moment when the Impressionists energized the City of Lights with their spectral colors and brushstrokes of immediacy. It was from the ashes of L’Annee Terrible, the defeat of the French
- [Volume 39 No 1 Sept - Oct 2024](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-39-no-1-sept-oct-2024/) - ARTICLES EAST AND WEST - ALL DRAGONS Nancy Nesvet COMPROMISE AND ACCEPTANCE Lanita K Brooks Colbert DRAGONS IN AMERICA Valerie Kennedy ICONOGRAPHY OF DRAGONS David Goldenberg WITH INTELLECT COMES FRIENDSHIP JUNG AND THE DRAGON Marc Bloch DRAGONS IN THE KOREAN ROYAL COURT Rina Oh SIEGRIED SLAYS THE DRAGON FAFNER Jeanne Stanek REVIEWS HEALING THE EARTH
- [Editorial – Dragons: The Legend Continues](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-dragons-the-legend-continues/) - by Daniel Benshana I didn’t read The Faerie Queen by Edmund Spencer until I was twenty-six years old and ready to wade through 4,000 sonnets, but I was hooked from page one and recall the Knight defeating a dragon in typical romantic knightly fashion with lots of wounds from which he bled only to be
- [Siegried Slays The Dragon Fafner](https://newartexaminer.net/siegried-slays-the-dragon-fafner/) - By Jeanne Stanek Taking the dragon’s place in opera, the dragon Fafnar appears in the opera Siegried, the third of the four epic musical dramas that constitute Der Ring des Nibelungen (The Ring of the Nibelung), by Richard Wagner which premiered at the Bayreuth Festspielhaus on 16 August 1876, as part of the first complete
- [Dragon Ring](https://newartexaminer.net/dragon-ring/) - Elizabeth Ashe My great-grandfather, was a Cossack. The normal family storystarts with the Revolution years,and his strength as the Czar’s Bear. He spent the rest of his life mumbling about how If Only he wasn’t sent far out on patrol that day, Nicholas and the family would not have fallen. Before the Revolutionwhen the Czar
- [“Healing the Earth” in the Wake of Joseph Beuys](https://newartexaminer.net/healing-the-earth-in-the-wake-of-joseph-beuys/) - Dr. Uranchimeg Tsultemin Among the increasing number of recent exhibitions dedicated to the topic of environmental issues is the exhibition titled Healing the Earth: 50 Yeas of German-Mongolian Friendship, opened last month at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf. While the topic is not new, the structure is unique as it is a major show featuring nine established Mongolian
- [Dragons in the Korean Royal Court](https://newartexaminer.net/dragons-in-the-korean-royal-court/) - Emblems of the King, Representing Power, Authority, and Dignity By Rina Oh Korea is known to have many dragons, each one serving a purpose. Of all the mystical dragons, the most popular is Yong, a benevolent hornless ocean dwelling creature who symbolized protection and hope, and protected humans, warding off evil spirits. Several types of
- [Jung and the Dragon](https://newartexaminer.net/jung-and-the-dragon/) - By Mark Bloch “The dragon stands as the guardian of the treasure.” (~Carl Jung, CW, The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, 9i, Para 283.)Just as a dragon guards its treasure, our subconscious guards valuable lessons and opportunities for growth. The process of self-development is an ongoing journey to be continuously confronted and integrated with
- [With Intellect Comes Friendship](https://newartexaminer.net/with-intellect-comes-friendship/) - Kenneth Grahame's The Reluctant Dragon: Friendship, Understanding, and Radical Queer Love Dragons are often fearsome creatures who terrorise humans. That’s certainly an accurate description of Smaug, the dragon at the denouement of J.R.R. Tolkien’s beloved fantasy epic The Hobbit, or there and Back Again. Not all classic fantasy’s dragons are evil, though. A notable exception
- [Iconography of Dragons - Hobbits, Disney and More](https://newartexaminer.net/iconography-of-dragons-hobbits-disney-and-more/) - By David Goldenberg It seems that dragons, knights, the Crusaders, and St. George have always been iconographies that saturate our lives, through mass produced films, comics and animations. The St. George flag is often worn by football supporters and hooligans although they operate in a secular culture. Distinct iconographies of American film by Marvel and
- [Births: Compromise and Acceptance: The Game of Thrones and House of Dragons](https://newartexaminer.net/births-compromise-and-acceptance-the-game-of-thrones-and-house-of-dragons/) - By Lanita K. Brooks-Colbert Our use of visual art, the written and spoken word, music and performance continue to cultivate imagination, build empathy, bridge ideological divides and further our common humanity. This is why we are fascinated by the HBO series, Game of Thrones and House of the Dragon. The battle of the strongest, most
- [St. George and the Dragon](https://newartexaminer.net/st-george-and-the-dragon/) - By Daniel Benshana Each issue, the New Art Examiner invites a well-known, or not so well-known, art world personality to write a speakeasy essay on a topic of interest. Daniel Benshana is a writer and son of the poet Shänne Sands. He lives and works in Cornwall and sometime s as a background artist on
- [East to West – All Dragons](https://newartexaminer.net/east-to-west-all-dragons/) - By Nancy Nesvet We need a dragon now, a powerful, frightful, strongly scaled, fire-breathing dragon to defend those who need might to make right. Or maybe we would do better with a dragon in the Asian mode, who brings good luck and is benevolent. Although I would like to believe that was the motivation for
- [Dragons in America](https://newartexaminer.net/dragons-in-america/) - What Season Two of House of the Dragon Reveals About the U.S. Present and Future By Valerie Kennedy It’s little surprise that HBO’s House of the Dragon (HOTD) has become a mega hit globally and here in the U.S., which for the last five years, certainly since 2021, has been immersed within its own Dance
- [David's Labyrinth](https://newartexaminer.net/davids-labyrinth/) - Visiting London one is often drawn to the galleries and museums making the most noise in the press but sometimes one comes across a smaller, quieter installation which captures the imagination in a way the Tate has failed to do for decades. St Jude's Church in 1, The Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb, has a long
- [Sound, Found and Unbound](https://newartexaminer.net/sound-found-and-unbound/) - Mark Bloch While Fluxus has always been acknowledged for its diversity, Out of Bounds: Japanese Women Artists in Fluxus (October 13, 2023-January 21,2024 at the Japan Society in New York highlights four female artists who came from various parts of Japan to New York City in the early 1960s and became influential participants in the
- [Bad Boy of the Art World](https://newartexaminer.net/bad-boy-of-the-art-world/) - Rina Oh Amen Known as the grandfather of the Pop Art Movement, Larry Rivers was a prolific, outrageous and significant artist of the 20th century. The virtuoso creative was a film maker, painter, sculptor, saxophonist and pianist, a natural provocateur who was hungry for attention and oftentimes stunned the art world with his outrageous behavior.
- [Speakeasy: Samurai](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-samurai/) - Each issue, the New Art Examiner invites a well-known, or not so well-known, art world personality to write a speakeasy essay on a topic of interest. Jorge Miguel Benitez is an assistant professor at the Virginia Commonwealth University and one of the founding artists of the Geometric Aljamía project. Benitez has a Master of Fine
- [Brazilian Colour](https://newartexaminer.net/brazilian-colour/) - Mary Fletcher Tate St Ives have a new show on until 29 September Maresias meaning ‘salty breezes’, by Beatrix Malhazes who lives in Rio, a show coming from Margate and also a room of Rothko paintings from London. To go from one to the other is like a trip to a tropical carnival full of
- [Zone of Interest](https://newartexaminer.net/zone-of-interest/) - Annie Markovich Zone of Interest is a cinematic masterpiece. Director Jonathan Glazer uses sounds often as visual stimulus which can free the imagination to interpret what is happening. Sometimes sound communicates in a more direct way what the eye cannot see. In the beginning shot a blank screen addresses the audience. Zone of Interest begins
- [Arte! Arte! Arte](https://newartexaminer.net/arte-arte-arte/) - Elga Wimmer Argentine artist Marta Minujin is in the best sense of the word a living legend. The artist is considered a pioneer of happenings, performance, and pop art. Marta Minujin is one of the most recognized post war artists in Latin America and is often referred to as the ‘Argentine Andy Warhol.’ The conceptual
- [Sonia Boyce talks to David Goldenberg](https://newartexaminer.net/sonia-boyce-talks-to-david-goldenberg/) - David Goldenberg (DG): There is no equivalent to the Other Story and the black art movement in the UK, so how might we learn and build on its lessons? At the moment there seems to be a flaw in large scale exhibitions, Biennales and Documenta, which do not provide long term support to understand the
- [Oscar Nitzchke, Avant-garde Architect of the Modernity 1900 – 1991](https://newartexaminer.net/oscar-nitzchke-avant-garde-architect-of-the-modernity-1900-1991/) - Lea Lee Oscar Nitzchke was a modernist architect, friend and associate of pre-and post-World War II era artists whose work he influenced, and whose architecture was influenced by those sculptors and painters. His 1936 drawings for his unrealized La Maison de la Publicité, projected for the Champs Elysees in 1935 are now part of MOMA’s
- [Cross Cultural Histories of the Black Experience, 1920-1940](https://newartexaminer.net/cross-cultural-histories-of-the-black-experience-1920-1940/) - Lanita K. Brooks Colbert Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism currently showing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, addresses the controversy created by the MET’s 1969 exhibition, Harlem on My Mind: The Cultural Capital of Black America 1900-1968. The 1969 exhibition excluded works of fine art and sculptures by Black artists. Instead, the MET presented a
- [A Story Worth the Telling](https://newartexaminer.net/a-story-worth-the-telling/) - Nancy Nesvet Artists are storytellers. We make up worlds, connections, visions of people and places, the best connected to who we are and our own personal history and beliefs. The fictions sprout from memories of what has been, who we and who those before us were, who we hope to become and our hopes and
- [Volume 38 no 6 July - August 2024](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-38-no-6-july-august-2024/) - ARTICLES A Story Worth Telling – Nancy Nesvet Cross Cultural Histories of the Black Experience 1920-1940 – Lanita K Brooks Colbert Sound, Found and Unbound – Mark Bloch Oscar Nitzchke, Avant-Garde Architect of Modernity 1900 -1991 – Lea Lee REVIEWS Arte! Arte! Arte! – Elga Wimmer Brazilian Colour – Mary Fletcher DEPARTMENTS: SPEAKEASY SAMURAI Jorge
- [Bestiari -  Carlos Casas](https://newartexaminer.net/bestiari/) - Isabella Chiadini Bestiary was a medieval book filled with illustrations of real and imaginary animals. The Bestiari that the Catalan artist Carlos Casas has put on in Venice although inspired by such books, is a little bit different. This is the story of endless research. Of works of art that come to life thanks to
- [Discovering The Present From The Future](https://newartexaminer.net/discovering-the-present-from-the-future/) - Elga Wimmer After the hassle and buzzle of the preview days of the Venice Biennial 2024 and long queues to enter Pavilions, Palazzos with Collateral exhibitions, and exhibition spaces all around Venice, the Mongolian Pavilion felt like an oasis of Zen serenity, enveloped by the sound of chimes, recalling the atmosphere of a Buddhist
- [The Unreasonable Burden of Necessary Firsts (or the Ironies of ongoing narratives of arrival for African art at Venice Biennale)](https://newartexaminer.net/the-unreasonable-burden-of-necessary-firsts-or-the-ironies-of-ongoing-narratives-of-arrival-for-african-art-at-venice-biennale/) - Valerie Kabov Venice Biennale is the industry biennale. Unlike its younger siblings around the world, which proudly flaunt their non-commercial bona fides, Venice Biennale is like the eldest tasked or saddled with the responsibility of being the most mainstream, representative and breadwinning. Any doubt about this, quickly disappears with a walk through the Giardini on
- [Cosmic India](https://newartexaminer.net/cosmic-india/) - Alex Ulam Although India is the birthplace of one of the world’s great civilizations and its contemporary culture has a formidable international influence, the country has never had a permanent national pavilion at the Venice Art Biennale. In fact, India has only officially participated twice with a national pavilion over the course of the
- [Foreigners Everywhere](https://newartexaminer.net/foreigners-everywhere/) - David Goldenberg The illegal and elaborately staged protest in support of Palestinians on the first day of the preview set the stage and conditions for what could be possible in a Biennale at this moment of historical violence, chaos and anxiety. In many respects, works in the Biennale purport to desire direct action, within the
- [Venice Biennale 2024](https://newartexaminer.net/venice-biennale-2024/) - Nancy Nesvet T The Publisher of the New Art Examiner recently told me, “All you need for a good story is to write about something you love.” The Venice Biennale is that. Encompassing the world, political only in its regard for addressing issues that make the world a better and more environmentally sustainable place for
- [Venice Biennale 2024](https://newartexaminer.net/venice-biennale-2024-2/) - Your writers in this event: Isabella Chiadini just loves telling stories. She likes to investigate anything that captures her attention and has always been charmed by art in general. Currently living in Milan but she spent a quarter of her life in a small village of the Tuscan-Romagnolo Apennines, where one of the most
- [Volume 38 No 5 May -June 2024 Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-38-no-5-may-june-2024-speakeasy/) - Responding to War Recently the Cornish contingent of writers met and discussed what role artists have during a war. Institutions like the Tate plan ahead and do not react quickly to anything. Picasso’s Guernica was made as the artist already had a commission to produce a work for the Spanish pavilion at the Paris
- [The Zen spirit of the Italian Pavilion](https://newartexaminer.net/the-zen-spirit-of-the-italian-pavilion/) - Liviana Martin The 'Due qui/To hear' project is the work that Massimo Bartolini, an artist known for his works that connect man with natural space, created for the Italian Pavilion. The title, only apparently ungrammatical, alludes to the assonance between being two and listening. Crossing the immense expanse of the Pavilion is an experience that
- [Urabi's revolt](https://newartexaminer.net/urabis-revolt/) - Liviana Martin The Egyptian artist Wael Shawky, from drawing to sculpture to film to performance, reinterprets the cultural, religious and artistic characteristics of Middle Eastern history. His works make use of traditional Egyptian elements combined with contemporary Arab culture. In the music video Drama 1882, which constitutes the central element of the pavilion, together with
- [Take Another Little Piece of My… Skirt](https://newartexaminer.net/take-another-little-piece-of-my-skirt/) - Yoko Ono Retrospective Reveals a 1960s Conceptual-Art Visionary from London ‘Take another little piece of my heart’, sang Janis Joplin in 1968, covering a song originally recorded in the previous year by Aretha Franklin’s sister Erma Franklin. ‘You know you’ve got it, ‘cause it makes you feel good’. Joplin made codependence seem normal. She never
- [Domestic Interiors and Domestic Exteriors: Vermeer and Alex Katz](https://newartexaminer.net/domestic-interiors-and-domestic-exteriors-vermeer-and-alex-katz/) - Nancy Nesvet Amidst a return to semi-normalcy as Covid restrictions fade, two blockbuster exhibitions on two continents, showing work by Johannes Vermeer at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum and Alex Katz at New York’s Guggenheim Museum treat domesticity and leisure. 98-year -old Alex Katz’s retrospective of his long painting career quite literally casts light on his portraits and
- [Volume 37 No 5 May/June 2023: Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-37-no-5-may-june-2023-editorial/) - Enjoying the most beautiful multicolored, burnt orange and pewter grey sun rising above Miami Beach’s emerald Atlantic Ocean, I saw why little great art has been produced there; art cannot rival what nature has wrought, and is gone from sight in an instant. The sun quickly rises as intense oranges and pinks disappear into pastel
- [Editorial : November 2023 Volume 38. No.2](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-november-2023-volume-38-no-2/) - Editorial Nancy Nesvet A day after poring over the archive of New Art Exam- iners from October 1973, a half century ago, until currently, the New Art Examiner’s esteemed founder and Publisher Emeritus, Derek Guthrie passed away. This issue is a tribute to him, keeping his wise words and counsel alive. All who knew him
- [When Forms Come Alive](https://newartexaminer.net/when-forms-come-alive/) - Nancy Nesvet When Forms Come Alive, currently at the Hayward Gallery in Southbank Centre, London, features artists of the last sixty years revolutionizing the definition of sculpture by introducing non-rigid geometries, liquidity, and buoyancy of materials, ambiguous, often uncanny, sometimes repulsive, forms that beg touch, and repulse, incorporate movement, both real and implied, including the
- [Biennales, Art Fairs, Oh My!](https://newartexaminer.net/biennales-art-fairs-oh-my/) - Nancy Nesvet At the invitation of Art Basel to participate in the magazine sector and give a presentation about the New Art Examiner, Daniel Nanavati, Nancy Nesvet, Elizabeth Ashe, Anna Gav and Isabella Chiadini attended the private and press days of Art Basel 2023 in Basel, Switzerland, coming away with some unique perspectives on the
- [Volume 38 no 4 March April 2024](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-38-no-4-march-april-2024/) - Lead Articles: An American in Lima: A Meditation on a Divided Hemisphere Jorge Miguel Benitez Entangled Pasts 1768 – Now David Goldenberg REVIEWS Gerhard Richter, Engadin Nancy Nesvet Front Seat to a Revolution Valerie Kabov El Greco: His Own Peculiar Style Liviana Martin From Baires with Love Elga Wimmer When Forms come Alive Nancy Nesvet Departments: editorial Nancy Nesvet Speakeasy Miklos Legrady
- [An American in Lima](https://newartexaminer.net/an-american-in-lima/) - A Meditation on a Divided Hemisphere Jorge Miguel Benitez I was not born a citizen of the United States, yet I have been an American from birth. Why does the word American seem to apply exclusively to the people of the United States? Do we not all live in the Americas? The French, Germans, and
- [Gerhard Richter, Engadin](https://newartexaminer.net/gerhard-richter-engadin/) - Nancy Nesvet The Segantini Museum, Nietzsche Haus and Hauser and Wirth Gallery in San Moritz, in the Upper Engadin, Switzerland, comprise the three-venue current exhibition of work by Gerhard Richter titled Gerhard Richter: Engadin. Photographs, paintings, and photographs overpainted with oil and lacquer paint surround a sphere reflecting the surrounding work and the mountains beyond
- [Front Seat to a Revolution](https://newartexaminer.net/front-seat-to-a-revolution/) - personal observations on the turbo charged development of contemporary art in Africa Valerie Kabov The past two decades marked some dramatic changes, movements and upheavals for contemporary art in Africa and its engagement with the global art community, industry and market. Like the rest of Africa, its art scene is young, ancient, dynamic, diverse, and
- [El Greco: His Own Peculiar Style](https://newartexaminer.net/el-greco-his-own-peculiar-style/) - Liviana Martin If sometimes the destiny of a person is contained in the name (nomen omen as the Romans said, meaning the destiny is in the name), in this painter there are actually two of them: El concerns his Spanish period, Greco the Italian one. The artist was born in 1541 in Candia, capital of
- [From Baires with Love](https://newartexaminer.net/from-baires-with-love/) - Elga Wimmer Buenos Aires, called Baires colloquially, a vibrant city excelling in art, music and architecture, with a largely European rooted population, is much more than the current news headlines of economic doom and political chaos. My trip in early September of 2023 – included a visit to the ArteBA art fair, as well as
- [Entangled Pasts: Art, Colonialism, Change](https://newartexaminer.net/entangled-pasts-art-colonialism-change/) - David Goldenberg Although the title is Entangled Pasts: Art, Colonialism, Change, the actual theme of the show currently at the Royal Academy of Art (RA) is the history of the RA and how socio-political issues are refracted through mainstream western art, history, knowledge, and the creation of environments where past and recent time coexist. To
- [Looking at Picasso](https://newartexaminer.net/looking-at-picasso/) - Mary Fletcher This new book is well designed with many good quality illustrations on substantial matte paper and each chapter defined by double page differently coloured paper so that it’s a pleasure to navigate it. Karmel begins with an account of Picasso’s life, mentioning his dealers and his relationships with women and pointing out that
- [A Painter Looks at Philip Guston Now ](https://newartexaminer.net/a-painter-looks-at-philip-guston-now/) - A Painter Looks at Philip Guston Now Don Kimes Philip Guston Now at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC was not just a primer on the evolution of an artist and the tenacity of individual vision over a lifetime. It was also a lesson in the importance of curatorial intelligence as well as
- [Volume 38 no 3 January 2024](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-38-no-3-january-2024/) - 2 editorial5 Speakeasy Daniel Benshana 6 Where Has All The Protest Music Gone? Jorge M Benitez 12 The Rossettis Delaware Art Museum15 Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hayward Nancy Nesvet19 A Painter Looks at Philip Guston Now Don Kimes23 Women in Revolt: Art & Activism in the UK 1974-1990 Nancy Nesvet33 The Mother and the Weaver
- [The Rossettis at the Delaware Art Museum](https://newartexaminer.net/the-rossettis-at-the-delaware-art-museum/) - The Rossettis The Tate Britain’s Rosettis exhibit has come to the United States: specifically, to the Delaware Art Museum. This exhibit brings together Rossetti paintings, drawings, photographs, and other objets d’art from across the close-knit artistic Victorian family’s two decades of influence on British culture. Unlike previous Rossetti retrospectives, this one awards at least equal
- [Editorial : January 2024 Volume 38. No.3](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-january-2024-volume-38-no-3/) - Editorial As protests arise worldwide, art as protest in former times bears examination. Our writers in this issue have responded, providing an illustrated history of protest art in recent museum and gallery shows in the US and UK. We begin with a review of “The Rosettis”, now at the Delaware Museum of Art after a
- [Speakeasy: ArtExposed](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-artexposed/) - ArtExposed by Julian Spalding Daniel Benshana Julian Spalding writes that art often begins as a surprise and his reminiscences are peppered with the word, surprise at what he sees, surprise at what artists say, surprise being used as a synonym for delight. He also says an artist is a maker first, not a thinker and
- [Where Has All The Protest Music Gone?](https://newartexaminer.net/where-has-all-the-protest-music-gone/) - ‘Where Has Protest Music Gone?’ Jorge M. Benitez While performing in London in 2003, the Dixie Chicks – a country music group now known only as the Chicks – upset their conservative fans when lead singer Natalie Maines said, ‘We’re ashamed the President of the United States is from Texas.’ Although the ensuing firestorm did
- [Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hayward](https://newartexaminer.net/hiroshi-sugamoto-at-the-hayward/) - Hiroshi Sugimoto at the Hayward Nancy Nesvet Defining photography as the merging of science, its original purpose and discipline, with art as it soon became, Hiroshi Sugimoto for decades has examined photography as a medium and an end, an art form and an outpouring of the soul or mind, his and ours as he draws us into the
- [Art and Activism in the UK, 1970-1990](https://newartexaminer.net/art-and-activism-in-the-uk-1970-1990/) - Women in Revolt, Art and Activism in the UK, 1970-1990 Nancy Nesvet In an era in the US where legislation to allow women to control their bodies and their futures has been subverted by the US Supreme Court, where voting rights for blacks are targeted, and where LGBTQ+ people are losing rights afforded to straight
- [Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby](https://newartexaminer.net/its-pablo-matic/) - It’s Pablo-matic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby Elizabeth Ashe According to many thinkers within the art Canon, countless publications and public knowledge, Pablo Picasso was the master of the twentieth Century. He stood apart, lived for most of the century, created art movements and ways of looking, an appreciation for the pure childhood style of
- [The Native Camera](https://newartexaminer.net/the-native-camera/) - The Native Camera Liviana Martin ‘As a photographer, my journey revolves around the subject of my artwork: indigenous people ... my work aims to connect with people of different cultures and to inspire others to embrace the beauty of humanity, recognizing that we are all one people.’ The words of the English photographer Jimmy Nelson,
- [The Foundling Museum, London](https://newartexaminer.net/the-foundling-museum-london/) - The Mother and the Weaver Nancy Nesvet The Foundling Museum in London presents Art from the Ursula Hauser Collection on view from 22 September 2023 until February 18, 2024. Not too long ago, destitute women, unmarried women, prostitutes, and other women unable to support their children had little choice but to abandon them. A sympathetic
- [The Presence of Death](https://newartexaminer.net/the-presence-of-death/) - The Presence of Death Frances Oliver In his book The Great Derangement, discussed in my previous articles, Amitav Ghosh writes that, with few exceptions, only the ‘non-serious’ forms of modern fiction, sci-fi and the supernatural, reflect the ‘uncanny’ that we now face. For the greatest crisis of human history, climate change and the exhaustion
- [Frieze Week and Frieze Art Fair](https://newartexaminer.net/frieze-week-and-frieze-art-fair/) - David Goldenberg Frieze week finished on Sunday 15th October. There was a lot to see and digest, therefore the following report are my initial impressions with images of selected works and projects that l found interesting. I will start with an overview of the program during that week. The centre of the program was of
- [Manet and Degas at the MET](https://newartexaminer.net/manet-and-degas-at-the-met/) - Elizabeth Ashe Manet/Degas, first exhibited at the Musee d’Orsay opens with a split slash in the wall and modestly sized self-portraits by the artists. When the exhibit was at the Musee d’ Orsay, it switched things slightly – the entrance images were two portraits of women, and later, the artists’ self-portraits were a room
- [Volume 38 no 2 November 2023](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-38-no-2-november-2023/) - FEATURES: Yesterday and Today Derek Guthrie 50 Years of 'What the Hell Just Happened?' Stephen Westfall Art Fair Confidential Mark Bloch From Polemics to Medicalization: Fifty Years of Art Writing Jorge Benitez REVIEWS LONDON Frieze Week And Frieze Art Fair 2023 DavidGoldenberg NEW YORK Manet and Degas at the MET Elizabeth Ashe Judy Chicago: Herstory
- [ROBERT DOISNEAU](https://newartexaminer.net/robert-doisneau/) - ROBERT DOISNEAU Graziella Colombo What attracts, and drives thousands of visitors to see a photographic exhibition? Is it the photogra- pher’s fame? Is it their technique, nostalgia for a past to be rediscovered or the photographer’s use of greys or colour? Can it be the desire to know dif- ferent places, environments, people or situations?
- [Algernon Blackwood - The Willows](https://newartexaminer.net/algernon-blackwood-the-willows/) - ALGERNON BLACKWOOD – MENACING WILDERNESS Frances Oliver In Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement, which I reviewed in the last issue, Ghosh deplores ‘serious’ fiction’s failure to address climate change, the greatest crisis humanity has ever faced. Post-industrial novels are mostly stuck in the realm of personal relations; only science fiction, Ghosh asserts, and the literature
- [Necessary Journey into Midjourney](https://newartexaminer.net/necessary-journey-into-midjourney/) - Mother of Invention: A Necessary Journey into Midjourney by Scott Sublett I am not Mr. Technology of 2023. I’m not even Mr. Technology of 1948 because damned if I can tell you how a TV works and if you think you can do any better, sit down and write a lucid paragraph about it right
- [Judy Chicago: Herstory](https://newartexaminer.net/judy-chicago-herstory/) - At the New Museum: Judy Chicago: Herstory 10/12/23-1/14/24, by Elizabeth Ashe It’s all about relationships, of women, and animals, with our earth and each other, powerful women, women artists; women’s lives, women’s views on birth and death, and women’s community, because this is a very personal art, and Judy Chicago is a woman, but also
- [From Polemics to Medicalization: Fifty Years of Art Writing](https://newartexaminer.net/from-polemics-to-medicalization-fifty-years-of-art-writing/) - Jorge Benitez In the 1960s, American art writing moved from the passionate polemics of Clement Greenberg and the clarity of Harold Rosenberg to the erudite incomprehensibility of Rosalyn Krauss and the brilliant ennui of Susan Sontag. In Europe, thinkers ranging from Jean-François Lyotard to Roland Barthes addressed the role of author and artist within what
- [Art Fair Confidential](https://newartexaminer.net/art-fair-confidential/) - Mark Bloch It was around 1991 when I went, instructed by friends, to the Gramercy Park Hotel where one could climb the stairwell to various hotel rooms and see art spread out on the bed and elsewhere. I was told this was called an “art fair” and I was delighted at this somewhat new experience.
- [50 Years of 'What the Hell Just Happened?'](https://newartexaminer.net/50-years-of-what-the-hell-just-happened/) - Stephen Westfall 50 Years of What The Hell Just Happened Well, congratulations to The New Art Examiner on its 50th anniversary! Some 47 or 46 years ago I received my first mention in a publication outside of Santa Barbara, where I was in school, for participating in a group show at West Hubbard
- [Yesterday and Today](https://newartexaminer.net/yesterday-and-today/) - Derek Guthrie, Co-Founder and Publisher Emeritus, the New Art Examiner The publishing of the New Art Examiner was an extraordinary event and bears witness to an important truth: the community has the ultimate power to decide and acknowledge its own reference points of merit and appreciation. As the copy published decades ago is still vital
- [Back to the Future](https://newartexaminer.net/a-retiring-art-professor/) - Stephen Westfall I’m aging out of teaching art in college and can’t help but wonder what it all means. At 70, I’ve been teaching for 50 years and I’m eager to spend whatever time I have left fully practicing what I “profess.” It’s not that I haven’t been able to make my own artwork while
- [Learning From The Masters](https://newartexaminer.net/learning-from-the-masters/) - LEARNING FROM THE MASTERS By Bradley Stevens When I was a young art student I remember walking with some trepidation from my studio in downtown D.C. to the National Gallery of Art. I had signed up to copy my first painting in this venerable museum, and was apprehensive at the prospect of working in front
- [The Only Thing that’s the End of the World is the End of the World](https://newartexaminer.net/the-only-thing-thats-the-end-of-the-world-is-the-end-of-the-world/) - “The Only Thing that’s the End of the World is the End of the World” Jonathan Latiano, with music composed by Sam Wu Payne Gallery at Moravian University, January 26-April 2, 2023 I was unable to make the opening reception, but I promised myself I would make it to “The Only Thing that’s the End
- [Editorial - Volume 37 no 7 September / October 2023](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-37-no-7-september-october-2023/) - Editorial Daniel Benshana The hunt for the right word to describe an art movement is difficult and, as often is seen in the history of criticism, serendipitous as descriptions are taken up by others who read the unsuspecting writer. I am not gong to attempt to describe the art world in the vain hope that
- [Speakeasy – The inexorable rise of the art market this century
	has put paid to art movements](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-the-inexorable-rise-of-the-art-market-this-century-has-put-paid-to-art-movements/) - Speakeasy – The inexorable rise of the art market this century has put paid to art movements Scott Reyburn “For almost every decade of the 20th century, a new art movement or “ism” developed: Cubism, Dada, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, Pop art, Conceptual art, Minimalism. So what about the 21st century?” asks Josh Baer in his
- [The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh](https://newartexaminer.net/the-great-derangement-by-amitav-ghosh/) - The Great Derangement by Amitav Ghosh Frances Oliver Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement is a short book, pithy in the best sense of that word, which began as a series of four lectures. It was published in 2016; a review of a later book on a similar topic, The Nutmeg’s Curse, made me eager to
- [Rodney and the Imagination](https://newartexaminer.net/rodeny-and-the-imagination/) - Migration and the Webs they Spin: Rodney Zelenka Nancy Nesvet Rivers of Babylon at LichtundFire Gallery, 175 Rivington St., New York, opened a show of Rodney Zelenka’s works on paper on June 27-July 28, and open by appt after those dates. Curated by Elga Wimmer and Priska Juschka, the drawings, inspired by Panama’s past political
- [Ex Statu Pupillari: Against Guardians](https://newartexaminer.net/ex-statu-pupillari-against-guardians/) - Ex Statu Pupillari: Against Guardians Sam Vangheluwe My late father loved to drive his car. Whenever he lost the way (the era before GPS), he would rather stay lost than ask someone for directions. Whenever he set about assembling a newly purchased item of furniture or piecing together some apparatus, he would do so without
- [Here’s looking at You, Casablanca](https://newartexaminer.net/heres-looking-at-you-casablanca/) - Here’s looking at You, Casablanca Mary Fletcher ‘The Casablanca Art School’. Tate St Ives, May 27th to January 14th 2024, and in Sharjah Art Foundation, United Arab Emirates, from February 2024 This show at first viewing struck me as very colourful and reminded me of seventies hard edge painting in UK It seems, free of
- [Cuba as Realised in Art](https://newartexaminer.net/cuba-as-realised-in-art/) - Cuban Artists Tell their Story Lanita K. Brooks Colbert At the beginning of my unforgettable visit to Cuba, a Cuban born anthropologist and scholar told me “to enjoy our people and country, but do not try to understand us”. Eduardo, a Cuban painter, and friend living in Washington D.C. whose artwork reflecting the country’s history,
- [The Geopolitics of Biennials: Simina Neagu](https://newartexaminer.net/the-geopolitics-of-biennials-simina-neagu/) - The Geopolitics of Biennials Simina Neagu Interviews David Goldenberg David Goldenberg's complex practice, focusing on the concept of post-autonomy and often employing participatory practices, poses ambitious questions on the future of art, thinking and language. And by investigating the geopolitics of biennials, David Goldenberg manages to shed light on a problematic, yet engaging set of
- [The Once and Future DIY Network](https://newartexaminer.net/the-once-and-future-diy-network/) - The Once and Future DIY Network by Mark Bloch Forty-five years ago, I was flailing about in my last year toward a studio art degree at a state university in the midwestern United States thinking “There must be more to art than this.” Thankfully, I was right. The answer partially arrived courtesy of an artist
- [Volume 37 no 7 September / October 2023](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-37-no-7-september-october-2023/) - Articles Learning From The Masters Bradley Stevens Back to the Future Stephen Westfall The Once and Future DIY Network Mark Bloch Not All Gold Glitters Pablo Halguera INTERVIEW The Geopolitics of Biennials: Simina Neagu Interviews David Goldenberg REVIEWS Cuba as Realised in Art Lanita K. Brooks Colbert Here’s looking at You, Casablanca Mary Fletcher The
- [Postcards From Iran](https://newartexaminer.net/postcards-from-iran/) - Isabella Chiadini Two long panels covered with over 800 postcards occupy the corridor of the Collamarini Wing of the Bologna Academy of Fine Arts. One in a row, until they compose an installation, they are neither greeting cards nor postcards. These are the works that hundreds of Iranian men and women (resident in Iran or
- [Volume 37 no 6 July / August 2023](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-37-no-6-july-august-2023/) - Art Fairs and Biennials: From Palestine: Our Past, Our Future Elizabeth Ashe Navy Pier: Chicago Expo 2023 Margaret Lanterman London Photo Show Gabrielle Bejani Biennials: Art Fairs Oh My! Nancy Nesvet NYC Art Fairs: Frieze, Volta, 1-54, Future Fair Mark Bloch REVIEWS Postcards from Iran Isabella Chiadini Injustice Without Resolution Elizabeth Ashe A Spirited view
- [Editorial: Volume 37 no 6 July / August 2023](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-37-no-6-july-august-2023/) - Nancy Nesvet In an incredibly busy, enlightening, and fulfilling two months, writers and editors at Art Lantern and the New Art Examiner visited and assessed the differing means and aims of art fairs and Biennales across the globe, gleaning important insights which we pass on to you, our readers, in this issue. We hope to
- [Tin Bòta](https://newartexaminer.net/tin-bota/) - Eleonora Schiarchi cultural heritage damages and collective recovery effort after the flooding in Emilia Romagna In early May, a series of intense floods struck several regions in Italy, with particular emphasis on Emilia-Romagna, located in the central-northern part of the peninsula. These natural calamities resulted in overflowing rivers, landslides, and mudslides, inflicting significant damage to
- [From Palestine: Our Past, Our Future](https://newartexaminer.net/from-palestine-our-past-our-future/) - Elizabeth Ashe From Palestine: Our Past, Our Future fills a central gallery at Palazzo Mora, during the Venice Architectura Biennale. The exhibition focuses on two times, 1948-1955, and jumps to the contemporary. The older past of Turks and Bedouins are ignored, instead set on current living memory. The Founder and Director of Palestine Museum US,
- [The Navy Pier 2023 Chicago Expo](https://newartexaminer.net/the-navy-pier-2023-chicago-expo/) - Margaret Lanterman Art Expo 2023 once again was the bustling and vibrant international destination for artist and artwork - to see and be seen. This April the Chicago art community entered its eleventh year as a leading international art fair, which included a huge array of 170 international galleries from 36 countries. Not-for profit institutions,
- [London Photo Show](https://newartexaminer.net/london-photo-show/) - Gabrielle Bejani For its 8th edition. From the 11 to the 14th of May 2023, Photo London opened its doors at Somerset House. The new director: Kamiar Maleki, previously Director of VOLTA Art Fairs in NYC and Basel, and Fair Director of Contemporary Istanbul, has over more than 20 years’ experience in the field. He
- [Exist Otherwise The Life and Works of Claude Cahun](https://newartexaminer.net/exist-otherwise-the-life-and-works-of-claude-cahun/) - Mary Fletcher Claude Cahun’s art was known to me via a handful of photos and I knew little of her life before reading this account. It’s a very beautifully designed book. There are four chronological chapters and an appendix of a few translated documents and a useful index. Claude Cahun chose her name and from
- [A Spirited View of the World: Hilma af Klint & Piet Mondrian](https://newartexaminer.net/a-spirited-view-of-the-world-hilma-af-klint-piet-mondrian/) - Nancy Nesvet The exhibition of Hilma af Klint and Mondrian pairs two artists who began as botanical and landscape painters but delved into abstractions based on combining spirituality with natural beauty. For Hilma af Klint, her tall architectural paintings included symbols of the folklore and folk patterns of her native Sweden, while Piet Mondrian’s vastly
- [Injustice Without Resolution: Doris Salcedo, at the Fondation Beyeler](https://newartexaminer.net/injustice-without-resolution-doris-salcedo-at-the-fondation-beyeler/) - Elizabeth Ashe Doris Salcedo’s exhibit at the Fondation Beyeler is more than a testament to her career, more that a triumph. In the span of eight rooms, she brings the viewer into her sculpture installations with an incredible eye to texture, absent body, and material. Salcedo’s ability to indicate the body, with or without
- [NYC Fairs: Frieze, Volta, 1-54 and Future Fair](https://newartexaminer.net/nyc-fairs-frieze-volta-1-54-and-future-fair/) - Mark Bloch After it was forced to cancel its 2020 manifestation and issue full refunds, Frieze New York 2021 reduced itself by two-thirds and moved to The Shed, the gimmicky building in Hudson Yards, leaving behind its beloved Randall’s Island tent for the first time since its tumescent 2012 maiden voyage. With May’s art week
- [Volume 37 no 3 January / February 2023](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-37-no-3-january-february-2023/) - How the Military Looks at Images James Elkins Our Team at Art Basel, Miami Nancy Nesvet Judy Chicago, Olafur Eliasson, Native artists Elizabeth Ashe 1Rhymezlikedimez, Design Miami,Prizm, Steve Tepas Sandy Bellamy Anselm Kiefer, Venice Liviana Martin, Barbara Hepworth: Art and Life Mary Fletcher A Bright Return for Barbara Hepworth Toni Carver Storyville, New Orleans Nancy
- [Editorial -- Volume 37 no 3 January / February 2023](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-37-no-3-january-february-2023/) - From the Editor-in-Chief, Art Lantern As the newly appointed Editor-in-Chief of Art Lantern, the new publication associated with the New Art Examiner, I am pleased to carry on the tradition established by Derek Guthrie and his associates, past and present at the New Art Examiner. With No Fear nor Favour, and acceptance of all articles
- [Our Team at Art Basel- Miami](https://newartexaminer.net/our-team-at-art-basel-miami/) - Nancy Nesvet Due to the nearly overlapping private preview days of Art Basel Miami and Miami Art Fairs 2022 and the ending days of the Biennale d’Arte 2022 in Venice, I was unable to attend both, although I was in both places, virtually. Virtually is, of course, not the same. Installations, sculptures nor paintings cannot
- [Judy Chicago](https://newartexaminer.net/judy-chicago/) - Elizabeth Ashe I knew what I was looking for – Judy Chicago’s Birth. I had seen a photo online. It looked vast and powerful, made in black and grey. I was wrong – it is fully black, and done with the negative and positive space openness of filet crochet. It is the first art piece
- [Olafur Eliasson](https://newartexaminer.net/olafur-eliasson/) - Liz Ashe at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery I overhear an agent say – “This would be best for a hotel” as he moves his clients away from The Fivefold Memory of the Color Mantra (2020), to see Eliasson’s smaller works around the corner in the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery booth at Art Basel, Miami. At first,
- [Native Artist Stand-Outs](https://newartexaminer.net/native-artist-stand-outs/) - Liz Ashe More and more Native artists are part of gallery booths at Basel, as are galleries from Central and South America. They broke up the commercial feel and reinforced how this year’s Art Basel Miami had a sub-focus on women’s rights, conversation, heritage, and mixed heritage. K Art Gallery is a Native and Indigenous
- [Rhymezlikedimez at Scope](https://newartexaminer.net/rhymezlikedimez-at-scope/) - Sandy Bellamy Both Art Basel Miami and Scope art fairs draw young followers of hip hop culture. Well-known rappers and hip hop artists buy contemporary art including Jay-Z, a major collector of Basquiat's work who rapped about art collecting in his album 444, and Nas, known for his collection of African American folk art. Many
- [Design Miami 2022](https://newartexaminer.net/design-miami-2022/) - Sandy Bellamy Design Miami during Miami Art week 2022 provided a multi-cultural show of carefully curated work representing modernism to contemporary arts. Representative of the multi-cultural program was the exhibit by The Southern Guild of South Africa. The artists and gallerist on site addressed their art practice, explaining: The gallery was founded in 2006 by
- [Prizm: Vernacular A la Mode](https://newartexaminer.net/prizm-vernacular-a-la-mode/) - Sandy Bellamy This year, the Prizm Art Fair Miami, a premier art event that takes place every year in the city of Miami showcased work by some of the most talented and up-and-coming artists from the African diaspora. Over sixty emerging and established galleries and artists offered varied diasporic narratives and perspectives while riveting conversations
- [Steve Tepas: Keep it Simple](https://newartexaminer.net/steve-tepas-keep-it-simple/) - Sandy Bellamy Steve Tepas is a contemporary painter and sculptor who produces large black and white conceptual paintings and sculpture that depict the complexity of human interactions, emotions, and the power of relationships. As the artist explains, his ‘Neo-Purism style, expands on the Purism movement led by the visionaries Le Corbusier and Ozenfant.’ To his
- [Anselm Kiefer – Art and Ruins](https://newartexaminer.net/anselm-kiefer-art-and-ruins/) - Liviana Martin The German artist Anselm Kiefer considers artistic activity a constant element in the history of human events and, investigating its origin, he thinks that art and life can be reborn from the ruins and remains of the past. Art will survive its ruins is the title of an important book by Kiefer, where
- [Barbara Hepworth Art and Life](https://newartexaminer.net/barbara-hepworth-art-and-life/) - Mary Fletcher This show, curated by Eleanor Clayton, Anne Barlow and Giles Jackson, began in Wakefield at their Hepworth museum and transferred to Tate St Ives, fitting into a smaller space. Many exhibits are loans from personal collections and unlikely to be assembled again. Many were new to me, adding to our experience in St
- [A ‘bright return’ for Barbara Hepworth in magnificent St Ives Tate show](https://newartexaminer.net/a-bright-return-for-barbara-hepworth-in-magnificent-st-ives-tate-show/) - Toni Carver THERE is a song by a Cornish band of the 1990s of considerable excellence - The Porters – called How Far We Have To Go To Return. Lyrically the song does just that. Some of the lyrics themselves are ‘returns’, slightly modified, from great and famous English poets, while the ‘return’ of the
- [A Preservation of Light. Storyville, New Orleans](https://newartexaminer.net/a-preservation-of-light-storyville-new-orleans/) - Nancy Nesvet With the loving but respectful touch of an admirer, Dana Nehdaran has painted the women of Storyville, New Orleans, photographed by E.J. Bellocq at the turn of the twentieth century (now exhibited at Spillman-Blackwell Fine Art, New Orleans, Louisiana). In Bellocq’s photographs and now, in Dana Nehdaran’s paintings, we see the history of
- [Shy - Book Review](https://newartexaminer.net/shy-book-review/) - The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers,” by Mary Rodgers and Jesse Green, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 467 pp. Scott Winfield Sublett Everybody loves a name-dropper when the names are Stephen Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Barbra Streisand, Truman Capote, Judy Holliday, George Abbott, Carol Burnett, Elaine Stritch, Mary Martin, Hal Prince, Woody Allen, Leonard Bernstein,
- [Volume 37 no 2 November/December 2022](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-37-no-2-november-december-2022/) - Blonde: Monroe Still Bleeds Scott Winfield Sublett How To Visit A Museum Of Fine Art Sam Vangheluwe The Art Of Prosecution Pablo Halguera Welcome To Dystopia Ii Frances Oliver The Art World Needs A Strong Critical Culture Melissa Gronlund Editorial Darren Jones Speakeasy – How Should We Feel About Art And Evil? Tom Rachman
- [Volume 37 No 2 Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-37-no-2-editorial/) - Darren Jones Instagram’s Perfect Lie How The Platform’s Community Guidelines Are Aiding Right Wing Homophobia. Recently, the Pines Conservation Society held its annual ‘Go Native’ panel on the ecology, history and culture of the Meat Rack—a bucolic half-mile of dunes and forest situated between the gay hamlets of Fire Island Pines and Cherry Grove, five
- [SPEAKEASY: Five years after #MeToo, how should we feel about art and evil?](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-five-years-after-metoo-how-should-we-feel-about-art-and-evil/) - Tom Rachman was born in London and raised in Vancouver, Tom studied cinema at the University of Toronto and journalism at Columbia University in New York. He worked at The Associated Press as a foreign-news editor in Manhattan headquarters, then became a correspondent in Rome. He also reported from India, Sri Lanka, Japan, South Korea,
- [BLONDE: Monroe Still Bleeds](https://newartexaminer.net/blonde-monroe-still-bleeds/) - By Scott Winfield Sublett The review in The New York Times of Blonde, the movie about Marilyn Monroe on Netflix, calls it ‘the latest necrophiliac entertainment to exploit her.’ The internet has piled on, too. My favorite: a young, female professor tweeting that Joyce Carol Oates, the author of the novel from which the movie
- [How to Visit a Museum of Fine Arts](https://newartexaminer.net/how-to-visit-a-museum-of-fine-arts/) - Sam Vangheluwe Once upon a time, the Museum of Fine Arts used to be a dreary place. An authoritarian, elitist institution. There was a time (Oh do tell us, grandad!), when you’d enter a fine arts museum, on a Wednesday afternoon, for example, or on a Sunday morning, and you'd suddenly be lonely and forlorn.
- [The Art of Prosecution](https://newartexaminer.net/the-art-of-prosecution/) - Pablo Halguera Because of the double life I led over decades and until a couple of years ago, working as both an artist and a museum educator – benefitting from the knowledge from one profession and applying it to the other but also equally having to balance both in practice – I have always been
- [The Art World is in Need of a Strong Critical Culture](https://newartexaminer.net/the-art-world-is-in-need-of-a-strong-critical-culture/) - Melissa Gronlund from the UAE If I had a penny for every time someone told me there should be more critical writing about art, I’d be a very rich woman. And as someone who has spent the better part of two decades as a critic, it’s hard not to take this observation personally – like
- [ART IN AMERICA: THE CRITICAL DUSTBOWL](https://newartexaminer.net/art-in-america-the-critical-dustbowl/) - By Darren Jones A bedeviling aspect of art criticism is the hegemony of New York based publications, and a jealous inward focus, to the detriment of sustained, democratized, national discourse. The prospects for an exhibition being reviewed decline the further it is from New York, and perhaps Los Angeles. This builds a skewed mass of
- [Volume 37 No 1 September - October 2022](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-37-no-1-september-october-2022/) - Beautiful Eccentrics Pablo Halguera Welcome To Dystopia Frances Oliver Simone Leigh’s Sovereignty At The Venice Biennale Matthew Nesvet The Biennale Of Women Liviana Martin Op-Ed: The Gods That Failed Miklos Legrady Editorial Daniel Benshana Speakeasy – The Cost Of Culture Tiffany Jenkins Poem: Senacour Frances Oliver Western And Far Western Abstraction Christian Hain Walter Langley’s
- [Editorial: Volume 37 No 1 September-October 2022](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-37-no-1-september-october-2022/) - Daniel Benshana Artists work within a series of communities. Even those at the high end of the monetary power of the art system, meet and work for plutocrats, old aristocratic families and corporations while being protected from everyone else by agents and various offices. Those who work in the regions and towns of their countries
- [The Cost of Culture: Speakeasy Vol 37 no 1 September-October 2022](https://newartexaminer.net/the-cost-of-culture-speakeasy-vol-37-no-1-september-october-2022/) - Tiffany Jenkins is a writer, author and broadcaster. Her next book Strangers and Intimates: The Rise and Fall of Private Life – will be published in 2023 by Picador. She is also the author of the critically acclaimed Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended Up in Museums and Why They Should
- [Beautiful Eccentrics](https://newartexaminer.net/beautiful-eccentrics/) - Pablo Halguera Barroquismos: Conceptual readings of the 17th century. Last week I was in Puebla to do research for a museum project. Puebla is very dear to my heart – a city where my mother grew up, and where I visited frequently as a child when my father travelled for business there. Many important
- [Welcome to Dystopia](https://newartexaminer.net/welcome-to-dystopia/) - Frances Oliver ‘Dystopia’ is a word that only began appearing in dictionaries in 1868. Before that there was only ‘Utopia’ which came into the language with Sir Thomas More’s book of that name, in 1551. ‘Utopia’ meant “an imaginary ideal place, enjoying a perfect, legal, social and political system”. It is hard to think of
- [Simone Leigh’s Sovereignty at the Venice Biennale](https://newartexaminer.net/simone-leighs-sovereignty-at-the-venice-biennale/) - Matthew Nesvet If, as many commentators say, the Venice Biennale is the Olympics of art, the international fair’s opening day features, in place of the world’s best athletes running through a stadium with torches, a parade of journalists, press assistants, and other curious ticket holders milling about the Giardini, the park grounds in Venice where
- [The Biennale of Women](https://newartexaminer.net/the-biennale-of-women/) - Liviana Martin Never, as in this 59th Venice Biennale of art, have there been so many artists from all over the world. The Milk of Dreams is the title of the Biennale, taken from the book by the surrealist painter Leonora Carrington. An enigmatic title to suggest current themes: the relationship between man and nature,
- [The Shape of Freedom: Western and Far Western Abstraction](https://newartexaminer.net/the-shape-of-freedom-western-and-far-western-abstraction/) - Christian Hain Hasso Plattner is a man of many passions, from computers: co-founding software giant SAP provided him with the means to become one of Europe's top art collectors – over hockey: his ownership of NHL team San Jose Sharks might give us a hint as to where he preferably spends his holidays – to
- [Walter Langley](https://newartexaminer.net/walter-langley/) - Mary Fletcher This extensive show of 60 works by Walter Langley commemorates the 100th anniversary of his death, aged 70, in 1922 One picture has been sent from Texas. It’s long title In Faith and Hope the World Will Disagree but All Mankind’s Concern is Charity indicates where he stood on social questions. Langley documented
- [Book Reviews: Environment & Art](https://newartexaminer.net/book-reviews-environment-art/) - SUZAAN BOETTGER T. J. Demos Decolonizing Nature: Contemporary Art And The Politics of Ecology Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2016. 296 pp. 105 Color ills., 3 B/W. $28 Paper T. J. Demos Beyond The World's End: Arts of Living At The Crossing Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2020. 272 Pp. 55 ills. $26.95 paper Andrew Patrizio The
- [Back to Childhood](https://newartexaminer.net/back-to-childhood/) - Susana Gómez Laín There is a proverb that says ‘there is not a bad thing without something good’ and that happened to me when I went to the funeral of a dearest family friend in Bilbao. I did not expect the gift of being able to attend, by chance, an exhibition of one of my
- [The Seductive Economy:  Sex, Mettle and Labor in the Art of Donna Nadeau ](https://newartexaminer.net/the-seductive-economy-sex-mettle-and-labor-in-the-art-of-donna-nadeau/) - Madina Stepanchenko Some lives are lived under such brutal, unrelenting conditions that they are unimaginable to the majority of us, and how a person survives at all can seem incomprehensible. When it is an artist who has endured those circumstances they can provide a foundation for work that realizes art’s fullest potential in fusing creative expression, and
- [NFTs Are Not an Artist's Enemy: Digital Currency for Creative Living](https://newartexaminer.net/nfts-are-not-your-enemy-but-you-might-be/) - Madina Stepanchenko The art world’s governing systems inculcate the notion that expressing one’s experience artistically is an endeavor too noble to require something as grubby as being paid. The result of this conditioning is that artists, critics, educators and curators don’t learn how to be confident at expecting fair compensation from a system that relies
- [Volume 36 no 6 July / August 2022](https://newartexaminer.net/12749-2/) - Experiencing The Uber-Bustle Of Art Expo 2022 Margaret Lanterman Is The Sondheim Style The Future Of The Broadway Musical? Reflections On The Legacy Of A Master Scott Winfield Sublett Welcome To Dystopia Ii Frances Oliver The War Began In Art Al Jirikowic The Plaza And The Occupied Square Pablo Halguera Letters Editorial Daniel Benshana Speakeasy
- [Volume 36 no 6: Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-36-no-6-editorial-2/) - by Daniel Benshana There are many ways in which painters see differently to those who do not draw or paint. Just as musicians hear sound in ways non-musicians cannot. It is not just the myriad of colours, tones and hues in things. It is the ability to detect realities behind reality. Let me take you
- [Speakeasy: A Recovering Art Criric](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-a-recovering-art-criric/) - Michael Bonesteel is an independent scholar, curator, and contributing editor to Raw Vision. He is the author of Henry Darger: Art and Selected Writings (Rizzoli International) and was an art critic for Art in America and Artforum magazines and Chicago Bureau Chief New Art Examiner. His writing appears in the recent book, Nonconformers: A New
- [Experiencing the Uber-Bustle of Art Expo 2022](https://newartexaminer.net/experiencing-the-uber-bustle-of-art-expo-2022/) - Margaret Lanterman Spring in Chicago brings weather that varies between blustery snow and 80-degree sunshine, and that abrupt dichotomy was also the feel of the most recent Art Expo, the International Exposition of Contemporary and Modern Art. Alongside migrating birds and drifts of tulips and jonquils, we once again had a mile of art to
- [Is the Sondheim Style the Future of the Broadway Musical? Reflections on the Legacy of a Master](https://newartexaminer.net/is-the-sondheim-style-the-future-of-the-broadway-musical-reflections-on-the-legacy-of-a-master/) - Scott Winfield Sublett When Stephen Sondheim died last winter at 91, people said, “It was a punch in the gut,” and there followed a burst of eulogism that probably exceeded anything any practitioner of the musical ever received. Considering that almost nobody in the US goes to the theatre anymore, it was pretty remarkable. Further
- [Welcome to Dystopia – II](https://newartexaminer.net/welcome-to-dystopia-ii/) - by Frances Oliver Two dystopias written a century and a half apart are set in an inundated England, where nature has produced a great rising of waters. The contrast is fascinating; in one case, the danger is the sea outside, in the other, a giant inland lake in which the great cities of England have
- [The Plaza and the Occupied Square](https://newartexaminer.net/the-plaza-and-the-occupied-square/) - by Pablo Halguera The original text is more academic in nature and some of that aspect is retained here; for that reason, this text departs slightly from my usual tone, but I still felt it would be worth sharing it as it touches on some topics I have addressed in the past particularly regarding socially
- [Nina Canell: Pleasures Under the Sea](https://newartexaminer.net/canell-pleasures-under-the-sea/) - Nina Canell's Tectonic Tender at Berlinische Galerie by Christian Hain Just in time for Berlin Gallery Weekend - which happened again almost as normal this year, Berlinische Galerie opened a small exhibition by Swedish artist Nina Canell. The long and narrow corridor that often hosts installations here poses a special challenge to artists, not least
- [Anish Kapoor in Venice](https://newartexaminer.net/anish-kapoor-in-venice/) - Liviana Martin The maze that is Venice streets has bewitched one of the most influential artists of our time, who has chosen in this lagoon-like city a historic 18th century building as the seat of his Foundation. Anish Kapoor, born in Mumbai in 1954, moved to London in the 1970s, where he lives and works.
- [Infantalising Visitors](https://newartexaminer.net/infantalising-visitors/) - Mary Fletcher Walking into the big gallery the colours are very strong – it seems to be an era of painting the walls at Tate St Ives, with the Sol le Witt work that took weeks of meticulous work in the curved gallery and now this design which contains the Ad Minoliti pictures, mostly very flat
- [Feelings in London](https://newartexaminer.net/feelings-in-london/) - Daniel Benshana Arriving in London for a book launch for Bloomsbury I had time to spare and visited a few Mayfair galleries. At the Bastian there were some watercolours by Emil Nolde titled ‘Anatomy of Light and Water. The work was interesting in its own right because it was unusually colourful for Nolde, but that
- [Book Review: The Mirror & The Palette](https://newartexaminer.net/book-review-the-mirror-the-palette/) - Mary Fletcher Jennifer Higgie is from Australia and works as an editor of Frieze magazine. In this book Higgie introduces women who have made self portraits and places them in a historical context, grouping them by themes such as ‘Allegory’ or ‘Hallucination’. She tells us about their other works, which are described but frustratingly not
- [A Blind Man Crazy for Color: A Strange Tale from the Annals of Art Collecting](https://newartexaminer.net/a-blind-man-crazy-for-color-a-strange-tale-from-the-annals-of-art-collecting/) - Scott Winfield Sublett In Paris of the 1910s, when hungry artists would take almost any pittance for their work, an old man of extremely limited means scooped up Picassos, Modiglianis, Utrillos, Matisses and Cezannes, each painting bought for the price of a couple of good restaurant meals. The prescient old man’s collection would, today, be
- [Book review: Companion to Curation](https://newartexaminer.net/book-review-companion-to-curation/) - by Bruce Barber, Halifax University If there was ever a book that should be top of the reading list for students studying art institutions and curatorial practice(s) of the past, present and future – curators in training – this is it.: A Companion to Curation edited by well-known Australian artist academics Brad Buckley and John
- [Volume 36 no 5 May / June 2022](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-36-no-5-may-june-2022/) - Editorial - Daniel Benshana Speakeasy – Indigenous ‘American’ Art Is Not ‘American’ Art! - Tobias Mostel Autopsy Of Canadian Art Magazine - Miklos Legrady Terry Atkinson In Conversation - Stephen Lee Envoi Derek Guthrie - Derek Guthrie Art And Taste In Kanaal - Sam Vangheluwe Nothing Is Destroyed Anymore, Merely Commodified - Pablo Halguera The
- [Editorial Volume 36 no 5 May / June 2022](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-36-no-5-may-june-2022/) - Daniel Benshana A curator recently applied to run an exhibition at a major gallery in the UK. The exhibition was of interest to the Mayor’s office of the city and the culture team at the City Council, which meant the show could have been part of a city wide series of allied events with the
- [Speakeasy: Indigenous ‘American’ Art is not ‘American’ Art!](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-indigenous-american-art-is-not-american-art/) - Tobias Mostel Born in NYC in 1948 of an entertainment family, Tobias Mostel started at the top: the Boys Chorus at the Metropolitan Opera. He received his BA in 1975 from the School for General Studies at Columbia University, and after a thirty-five year pause, his Master’s Degree in Humanities from FSU. An independent scholar,
- [The End of Diversity in Art Historical Writing](https://newartexaminer.net/the-end-of-diversity-in-art-historical-writing/) - North Atlantic Art History and Its Alternatives This is the introduction to James Elkins’ new book of the same title. We will publish an extract in the next issue James Elkins This is an introduction about the ways people write about the history of modern and contemporary art in different parts of the world. From
- [Terry Atkinson in conversation with Art Historian T J Clark 3rd February 2022](https://newartexaminer.net/terry-atkinson-in-conversation-with-art-historian-t-j-clark-3rd-february-2022/) - Stephen Lee The focus of two series of recent drawings by Terry Atkinson- Berlin, East Prussia and the Desert, 2014-17 and American Civil War 2018 is the Cold War, its residual effects on the present and its origins in the momentous events that precipitated it. The drawings are displayed over two rooms at Josey gallery,
- [Envoi Derek Guthrie](https://newartexaminer.net/envoi-derek-guthrie/) - Derek Guthrie, champion of artists and cultural thinking and co-founder of the New Art Examiner is retiring. Age and ill health mean he no longer takes an active role in the day-to-day struggles of editing and printing the magazine. He will keep reading it and we will continue to consult with Derek on matters of
- [Art and Taste in Kanaal](https://newartexaminer.net/art-and-taste-in-kanaal/) - Sam Vangheluwe “More light!” Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s last words Taste is just about the last category that comes to my mind when I think of art (beauty being the very last). And good taste, I abhor. When confronted with it off-guard, I cringe. I eschew it. Didn’t Fernando Pessoa say that there is nothing
- [Nothing is Destroyed Anymore, Merely Commodified](https://newartexaminer.net/nothing-is-destroyed-anymore-merely-commodified/) - Pablo Halguera There is a famous passage in Karl Marx’s Grundrisse der Kritik der Politischen Ökonomie (Foundations of a Critique of Political Economy) – an unpublished manuscript of notes-to-self that Marx made over the course of writing Das Kapital – where the German philosopher uses piano makers and piano players to make a point about
- [The Father of Impressionism](https://newartexaminer.net/the-father-of-impressionism/) - Annie Markovich Thanks to the generosity of Esther Pissarro, the widow of Camille’s eldest son, Lucien, and that of their daughter Orovida, the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is home for the Pissarro family archive of paintings, drawings and prints. The exhibition at the Ashmolean was filled with a large group of viewers eager to stand
- [Federico Fellini: Painting in Film, Painting on Film](https://newartexaminer.net/federico-fellini-painting-in-film-painting-on-film/) - Giacomo Tagliani Is it still possible to say something new and thought-provoking about Federico Fellini? Some scholars have recently addressed this challenge by proposing new interpretations of the Italian director’s work, looking at different aspects – in some cases, previously neglected – of his heterogeneous and vast universe. Hava Aldouby is one of those
- [The War Started On Art](https://newartexaminer.net/the-war-started-on-art/) - Al Jirikowic Considering the calamity of the past few days, or last eight years, or last two hundred years, or whenever, it has given me pause to, once again think about art (as if I do much of anything else). I’m referring to the art we used to know and make. So hear the old
- [Tim Shaw at Anima Mundi - Corrections from the curator](https://newartexaminer.net/tim-shas-at-anima-mundi-corrections-from-the-curator/) - Highlighted in red are Anima Mundi's factual correctios and criticisms from the original review: Tim Shaw’s exhibition Fag An Beach in Irish means ‘Clear The Way’. He is a sculptor who has shown in San Diego, California and had a year long residency in Bonn, Germany, which is probably why the Breakdown Clown, an animatronic
- [7 Baltimore Curators Proving That Curating is no Longer Enough](https://newartexaminer.net/7-baltimore-curators-proving-that-curating-is-no-longer-enough/) - The necessity of art as activism fluctuates with current affairs. Global or domestic circumstances that unfold very quickly can require art workers to mobilize and respond with equal rapidity. Long-suppurating ills—racism, homophobia, violence against women—require longer-view strategies. Some issues demand both. Today’s polemics are unprecedented. A crippling pandemic followed the near-destruction of truth and democratic
- [Volume 36 no 4 March / April 2022](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-36-no-4-march-april-2022/) - Contemporary Asian Art - Hari Yanto Real Lives Matter - Frances Oliver Don’t Look Up (Film Review) - Josephine Gardiner Self Expression Through Abstraction - Alexander Stanfield In Conversation With Audrey Bracio Imagination Enhanced - Rachel Lebowitz Editorial - Daniel Benshana Speakeasy – Too Much Is Unsaid - Pablo Halguera A Bigger Secret: David Hockney’s
- [Editorial Volume 36 no 4 March / April 2022](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-36-no-4-march-april-2022/) - Daniel Benshana We have a lovely article in this issue on several artists who made toys for the children in their lives. It had us thinking about toys, and how they affect the aesthetic development of children. By development you may read ‘taste’, a word no one seems to like any more, but not using
- [Speakeasy - Too Much is Unsaid](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-too-much-is-unsaid/) - Pablo Halguera A few months ago, the news watchdog organization Project Censored published its annual report of the top news stories that were under-reported by the mainstream news media — or, as they describe it, “the corporate news media”. Founded at Sonoma State University by journalist Carl Jensen in 1976, Project Censored’s mission is to
- [Contemporary Asian Art: Re-framing Local Tradition](https://newartexaminer.net/contemporary-asian-art-re-framing-local-tradition/) - Hari Yanto Asia has a large population and a cultural diversity that has evolved over thousands of years. Asian cultures include Indian (Hindu), Chinese (Confucian and Buddhist), and the Arab (Islam) which has spread to various regions in Asia since the 8th century BCE. East Asian cultures like Japan and Korea have also influenced various
- [Real Lives Matter](https://newartexaminer.net/real-lives-matter/) - Frances Oliver The artist Sven Berlin wrote a novel, The Dark Monarch, whose characters it seems were based on the St Ives artists he knew in the 1940s and ‘50s, thinly disguised. The book, now republished, had to be withdrawn, and a spate of libel suits followed, to great financial loss. Things have changed much
- [Don’t Look Up](https://newartexaminer.net/dont-look-up/) - Josephine Gardiner It can be instructive to w atch a film without having seen a single review. This is what I did in January in the case of Don’t Look Up, in which Americans respond to the news that a huge comet will collide with the earth in six months and 14 days. The film,
- [Self-Expression Through Abstraction](https://newartexaminer.net/self-expression-through-abstraction/) - Alexander Stanfield Artists often attempt the creative leap to connect the personal and universal, which is no simple task. (no subject) non-attachment is a deftly executed exhibition by Audrey Barcio that seeks to bridge that gap through self-reflection on their own heritage, their methods of creative practice, and captivating abstraction. Barcio has created a body
- [A Bigger Secret: David Hockney’s Secret Knowledge](https://newartexaminer.net/a-bigger-secret-david-hockneys-secret-knowledge/) - Sam Vangheluwe “This book is not just about the past and the secret techniques of the artists; it is also about now and the future; the way we see images, and, perhaps, ‘reality’ itself.” David Hockney On a windy yet sunny afternoon, a child lies on his bed daydreaming. The bed is placed along the
- [Imagination Enhanced](https://newartexaminer.net/imagination-enhanced/) - Rachel Lebowitz In the art world, artists must often come to terms with the changing market, and creating work can become serious business. But there is an intrinsically playful element of the creative process, which celebrates limitless imagination and childlike exploration. It seems fitting, then, that many well-known artists were known to create toys for
- [Mondrian's Cows](https://newartexaminer.net/mondrians-cows/) - Liviana Martin Piet Mondrian, whom we know as a painter of abstraction and a destroyer of naturalistic forms, was a figurative artist at the beginning of his career. The current exhibition at the MUDEC (Museo delle Culture) in Milan presents the path taken by the artist (1872-1944) from figuration to the turning point of neoplasticism,
- [The ‘Grand Tour’ in Italy](https://newartexaminer.net/the-grand-tour-in-italy/) - Graziella Colombo In this time of pandemia, when it’s difficult to travel, Milan celebrates at the Gallerie d’Italia the international phenomenon of the Grand Tour with a large and very interesting exhibition open till March 27th. What is it about? The term Grand Tour has been used to refer the educational and formative trip that,
- [Thao Nguyen Phan at Tate St.Ives,](https://newartexaminer.net/thao-nguyen-phan-at-tate-st-ives/) - Mary Fletcher The booklet issued with admission tells us this 35-year-old woman artist, who lives in Ho Chi Minh City, ‘collapses and then redrafts the standardised histories of Vietnam and wider south-east Asia.’ However, many of us don’t actually have much idea of the history to collapse. This exhibition will expand our knowledge if we
- [Tim Shaw at Anima Mundi, St Ives](https://newartexaminer.net/tim-shaw-at-anima-mundi-st-ives/) - Mary Fletcher Tim Shaw’s exhibition Fag An Bealach in Irish means ‘Clear The Way’. He is a sculptor who has shown in San Diego, California and had a year long residency in Bonn, Germany, which is probably why the Breakdown Clown, an animatronic large figure which one encounters here, speaks some words in German. It’s
- [Illegal America](https://newartexaminer.net/illegal-america/) - Tina Wasserman In response to the present social and political climate of censorship, shifting international politics, and a global epidemic, Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, the original curators of Illegal America, first shown in 1982 at Franklin Furnace, and subsequent co-founders of the New York City gallery Exit Art that same year, felt it necessary
- [The 1st female architect of the 17th century](https://newartexaminer.net/the-1st-female-architect-of-the-17th-century/) - Loretta Pettinato Artemisia Gentileschi, Fede Galizia, Sofonisba Anguissola and many others, are some of the painters who lived between the sixteenth and seventeenth century; some are better known than others, but they all fought bravely against violence and provocations, managing to force their art in the Italian culture and other countries. Other than leaving a
- [A Woman’s Place And a Museum’s Misstep](https://newartexaminer.net/a-womans-place-conservatism-control-and-a-museums-misstep/) - Darren Jones At the end of 2020, San Antonio-based artist Sarah Fox, was invited to participate in an exhibition titled “8 Create” at the city’s McNay Art Museum. Fox and seven fellow-invitees were given latitude to respond to work from Marion Koogler McNay’s founding bequest, and to consider “place” in relation to the museum, which
- [Volume 36 no 3: January/February 2022](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-36-no-3-january-february-2022/) - Focus on Texas: San Antonio And The Art Of Do-It-Yourself Culture Rigoberto Luna San Antonio And Its Artists Darren Jones In The Distance: A Curator’s Experience Of South Texas And The Border Leslie Moody Castro The San Antonio Aesthetic Neil Fauerso Russian Art Free And Un-Free Rudolf Baranik (Archive From Nae 1990) Editorial Daniel Benshana
- [Volume 36 no 3: Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-36-no-6-editorial/) - Daniel Benshana The final, great block on the imagination and practice of any artist is their own ability to self-censor. To limit what they do because they are scared to be criticised. As if anyone who calls themselves an artist should be fearful of someone thinking differently from themselves? As if they should worry about
- [San Antonio and its Artists: The Polestars in a Vanguard of American Art And Labor](https://newartexaminer.net/san-antonio-and-its-artists-the-polestars-in-a-vanguard-of-american-art-and-labor/) - By Darren Jones The Texan art ecosystem is on the scale of an independent country. The five largest cities of Houston, San Antonio, Dallas, Fort Worth and Austin-ish have distinctive, gently-competitive art scenes; world-class institutions and collections; and a robust commercial gallery sector centered in Houston and Dallas—with its increasingly well-regarded art fair. There’s a
- [In The Distance: A Curator's Experience of South Texas And The Border](https://newartexaminer.net/in-the-distance-a-curators-experience-of-south-texas-and-the-border/) - By Leslie Moody Castro I talk about the state of Texas all the time. It has become near-mythical for its stereotypes (justified or otherwise), complicated history, right-leaning politics, and its staggering geographic scale. I am from Texas. I was born in Edinburg on the border with Mexico, and raised in Austin. My family still lives
- [The San Antonio Aesthetic](https://newartexaminer.net/the-san-antonio-aesthetic/) - By Neil Fauerso San Antonio occupies an unusual cultural position. Technically the seventh largest city in the U.S. (due to its Lichtenstein-sized city limits), it nevertheless is usually associated with provincial mid-tiered cities derided for their prosaic bleakness—Kansas City, Cleveland, Buffalo, Sacramento, et al. When San Antonio’s NBA team, the Spurs, were routine title contenders, TNT’s
- [San Antonio And The Art of Do-it-Yourself Culture](https://newartexaminer.net/san-antonio-and-the-art-of-do-it-yourself-culture/) - Rigoberto Luna I came up in the Do-It-Yourself culture of grassroots art activation, mobilizing and empowering communities in the San Antonio area through the love of art while overcoming the limitation of available resources. In my late teens and early twenties, I witnessed the birth of humble cultural arts organizations and nontraditional art spaces. I
- [The Attentive Artist volume 36.3](https://newartexaminer.net/9936-2/) - Japanese and Korean elites enjoyed appreciating Chinese landscapes through the imagery of poetry because most could not travel to China. Even though some diplomatic delegations were dispatched there, they could not journey to all the mountains and rivers described in the poems. Because most of the poems related to paintings, were written during poets occlusion
- [Enterprises of Great Pith and Moment](https://newartexaminer.net/enterprises-of-great-pith-and-moment/) - David Hockney at BOZAR, Brussels Sam Vangheluwe It has been nearly 30 years since the last solo exhibition by David Hockney at BOZAR. That, by any reckoning, is a generation. Many Belgians born in 1992 have by now begotten offspring. Last Saturday, it seemed as if they were all present at BOZAR, with their
- [Post War Design in Milan](https://newartexaminer.net/post-war-design-in-milan/) - Graziella Colombo Since 2007 Milan has celebrated the evolution of Italian design with a permanent exhibition at Triennale, an institution dedicated to the promotion, conservation and documentation of the history of design in Italy. Open with a newly designed exhibition space, it presents a chronological selection of the most important products from the post-War
- [The Body and the Soul](https://newartexaminer.net/the-body-and-the-soul/) - Liviana Martin Visiting the exhibition ‘The Body and the Soul’ at the Castello Sforzesco in Milan takes you on a journey through the history of Italian Renaissance sculpture between 1400 and 1500, a story that speaks not only of the body of man but also of the movements of the soul and of the emotions
- [Now Read This!](https://newartexaminer.net/now-read-this/) - Daniel Nanavati We have come to that ludicrous space where the Disney-inspired marketing specialist Koons likens his works to the Renaissance. Not just one of the artists of the time but to the spirit of the age. Of all the ‘human disciplines’, the intellect that is Koons manages to mention four: philosophy, psychology, history and
- [Some but not Others](https://newartexaminer.net/some-but-not-others/) - Mary Fletcher Newlyn Society of Artists is an exclusive group in that artists have to apply to be chosen as members and then apply to be in each show subject to selection. This show had a theme of celebrating the history of the society with many members referencing particular artists from the past membership
- [Art Therapy in the Tate St Ives](https://newartexaminer.net/art-therapy-in-the-tate-st-ives/) - Mary Fletcher I had concluded that the mainstream art world despised art therapy out of fear of being associated with madness. Yet now here it is – Petrit Halilaj worked as a child with art therapist Giacomo Poli and this helped him cope with the dreadful consequences of the war in Kosovo. Now he has
- [Russian Art: Free and Un-free](https://newartexaminer.net/russian-art-free-and-un-free/) - Rudolf Baranik - New Art Examiner October 1990 Painting Beyond the Death of Painting, described as the first group exhibition of American art in the Soviet Union, opened in Moscow last September. It was on view for a month in the Kuznetsky Most exhibition hall, a somewhat alternative space run by the Artist Union of
- [Volume 36 no 2 November / December 2021](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-36-no-2-november-december-2021/) - A Selfie With Godot - Sam Vangheluwe A Toast To The Reclusive - John Huber Requiem For A Burning - Frances Oliver Acts Of War: Afterlives And Nazi–Looted Art - John Haber Sexy Grammar - Colin Fell Editorial - Daniel Benshana Speakeasy - David Carrier Poem: Grass (Opening Lines) - Shänne Sands Interview: The Faces
- [Volume 36 no 2 November / December 2021 - Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-36-no-2-november-december-2021-editorial/) - Daniel Benshana Oratory is the art of persuasion and is taught over decades. And today, all over the world, politicians are taught how to act, dress and hold themselves in public. Those with fewer skills than others work hard to acquire them. Part of the skill is knowing your audiences and giving them all something.
- [Volume 36 no 2 November / December 2021 - Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-36-no-2-november-december-2021-speakeasy/) - The Sudden Recent Death of Our Art World David Carrier Just a year ago, without any warning, with no one prepared, our art world died. For four decades, for as long as I have been publishing art criticism, long–distance travel has been easy and relatively inexpensive. And so it was not difficult to see a
- [A Selfie with Godot - The Rarefied Reality of New European Painting](https://newartexaminer.net/a-selfie-with-godot-the-rarefied-reality-of-new-european-painting/) - Sam Vangheluwe I need a new office chair. My current one tends to start descending slowly as soon as I sit down. As the distance between my nose and the tabletop sustainedly decreases, confidence in what I write diminishes, and insecurity grows. At the lowest point, I am more liable to mess about with the
- [A Toast to the Reclusive: “Companions in Solitude”](https://newartexaminer.net/a-toast-to-the-reclusive-companions-in-solitude/) - John Haber In the year 405, a Chinese magistrate made a bold move—not to seize still greater power, but to step down. He chose, as the Met puts it, to ‘remove [himself] from the flow,’ apart from the courtroom, the court, and their worldly concerns. Not that a modest life meant a life without pleasures.
- [Requiem for a Burning](https://newartexaminer.net/requiem-for-a-burning/) - Frances Oliver They burned our house in Vermont. Burned it to the ground, every joist and timber, new floors, new roof, newly painted walls, a house that had cost a fortune to build and maintain and had stood, boarded and isolated in the long winters but bursting with life in the short lovely summers, for
- [Acts of War: Afterlives and Nazi-Looted Art](https://newartexaminer.net/acts-of-war-afterlives-and-nazi-looted-art/) - John Haber It was just another act of war. No, not the world war that had ravaged Europe and threatened freedom everywhere. Not the war in which the Nazis had captured Paris and entered the firm of Georges Wildenstein. Not an act in their wider agenda, which killed six million Jews and obliged Wildenstein, a
- [Sexy Grammar](https://newartexaminer.net/sexy-grammar/) - Colin Fell In her right hand - right being traditionally associated with correctness, orthodoxy, skill, dexterity - the young woman is holding a watering can; carefully, attentively, lovingly, she’s watering some attractively flowering plants. Around her left arm is coiled a scroll, inscribed in Latin: translated, they read “a meaningful utterance which can be written
- [Dead but Covered: The Arc de Triomphe wrapped by Christo & Jeanne-Claude](https://newartexaminer.net/dead-but-covered-the-arc-de-triomphe-wrapped-by-christo-jeanne-claude/) - Christian Hain You know how it is when a close relation has passed away: going through the papers, taking care of unfinished business. Wrapping things up. If the deceased was a famous artist who has left the most detailed instructions for projects that can still be realized without his physical presence, things might only be
- [Molly Jae Vaughan, After Boucher](https://newartexaminer.net/molly-jae-vaughan-after-boucher/) - Alexander Stanfield After Boucher, a nuanced solo exhibition of subversion and representation by Molly Jae Vaughan, is showing until Oct 24th at the Fuller Rosen Gallery in Portland, Oregon, United States. All the pieces in this collection are directly influenced by Boucher works from one book of 60 pieces titled The Drawings of François Boucher
- [Fotoclubismo: Modern Photography in Brazil](https://newartexaminer.net/fotoclubismo-modern-photography-in-brazil/) - John Haber More than 50 years ago, a movement in Brazil had a thorough grounding in modern art and design. It featured outsiders to photography, with due emphasis on women, but photography in Europe never came close to its eclecticism and modernity. Fotoclubismo Brazil introduces a collective, but it opens on the theme of solitude.
- [Nudity in a western culture: “Hayley Goes… Naked”](https://newartexaminer.net/nudity-in-a-western-culture-hayley-goes-naked/) - Mary Fletcher In this TV programme Hayley Pearce considers aspects of how the female body is regarded. She tries posing sexily in underwear for money online - and won’t take all her clothes off - fearing future disparagement. Later however she agrees to take part in one of those saucy calendar shoots where middle-aged
- [Landmark - a Sky Arts programme set in the UK](https://newartexaminer.net/landmark-a-sky-arts-programme-set-in-the-uk/) - Mary Fletcher Yet another contest – for public sculpture this time. They spend a long time introducing the judges, then get to the three contestants – but don’t say two of their last names. These surnames do appear on the screen for those who don’t glance away - but this won’t help their fame
- [Volume 36 no 1 September / October 2021](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-36-no-1-september-october-2021/) - Features: Cancelling art: from populists to progressives - Jela Krečič We cannot escape the aesthetics of what we create - Daniel Nanavati Robyn Day Interview with Scott Turri NFTs and conceptualism - Catheryne Kelly Did Duchamp pave the way for Donald Trump? - Miklos Legrady The Moorhouse Fish - Martha Benedict Departments: Editorial Daniel Nanavati,
- [Editorial - Volume 36 no 1 September / October 2021](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-36-no-1-september-october-2021/) - From the moment we are born we begin to interact with the world around us. How we handle those interactions is the birth of ethics. So, too, the moment we commit ourselves to artistic expression we are communicating to the rest of the world and in all communication there is an element of political expression.
- [Cancelling Art: From Populists to Progressives](https://newartexaminer.net/cancelling-art-from-populists-to-progressives/) - Jela Krečič According to the Slovene philosopher Mladen Dolar, the Covid pandemic acts like a magnifying glass that exposes and magnifies the more dire antagonisms in contemporary societies, from rising social inequality and the increased exploitation of women to contemporary forms of racism. It’s hard to judge if Covid-19 also amplified latent and already visible
- [When We Create We Cannot Escape The Aesthetics Of What We Create](https://newartexaminer.net/when-we-create-we-cannot-escape-the-aesthetics-of-what-we-create/) - Daniel Nanavati Does high art exist? This is not a question most people consider relevant today. That I consider it relevant is because there is no tribe we know about that has not worshipped images. If the visual experience can lead to devotion and, in the case of outright religious worship, the ignorance of human
- [Interview with Robyn Day](https://newartexaminer.net/interview-with-robyn-day/) - Scott Turri Chicago-based artist Robyn Day uses photography and all of its inherent complexity as a vehicle to explore and engage with queerness: identity, gender, sexuality, culture, and community. The work is conceptually driven and often attempts to subvert or reinforce perceptions about the nature of photography. However, Day is beholden to her craft as
- [Evasion of the Material - NFTs and Conceptualism](https://newartexaminer.net/evasion-of-the-material-nfts-and-conceptualism/) - Catheryne Kelly Last issue saw Al Jirikowic equate the NFT to ‘mental dust’, and as this phenomenon continues it’s high time to lift it’s veil of total intangibility with a brief glance towards Conceptualism. “[P]rofound changes are impending in the ancient craft of the Beautiful” said Paul Valéry, and if I were as gifted a
- [The Moorhouse Fish: Heirlooms and History](https://newartexaminer.net/the-moorhouse-fish-heirlooms-and-history/) - Martha Benedict Mantelpieces are places of memory and connect us to family history through the objects we choose to display there. Growing up I was always fascinated by the unusual stone fish that occupied, rather precariously, the fireplace at home. After a particularly raucous birthday party the fish fell from its perch and its tail
- [A Quantum of Solace: The Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent](https://newartexaminer.net/a-quantum-of-solace-the-museum-of-fine-arts-ghent/) - Sam Vangheluwe A long while ago, as a student at the Antwerp Academy of Fine Arts, I would step out into the street on a Sunday morning and be overcome by silence. As if the whole city was still asleep, or lazing over breakfast. Very few cars about. Starlings chirping. Peace and quiet. From time
- [Breath, Ghosts, Blind](https://newartexaminer.net/breath-ghosts-blind/) - Liviana Martin This venue, once a Pirelli factory, has been converted into a 15,000 square-metre exhibition space, one of the largest in Europe, and consequently has the ambience of a secular cathedral. Here, where until recently locomotives and agricultural machinery were assembled, three works by Maurizio Cattelan are being shown, under the enigmatic but important
- [Picasso Ibero](https://newartexaminer.net/picasso-ibero/) - Gill Fickling I’ve never really liked Picasso. Call me a philistine, call me art-ignorant, but I’ve always found his work cold, detached and cruel. Except for Guernica of course, which reduced me to tears. My antagonism was reinforced on reading the book Life with Picasso by Francoise Gilot, his lover and mother of two of
- [Paula Rego – There are no Words](https://newartexaminer.net/paula-rego-there-are-no-words/) - Catheryne Kelly How do you solve a problem like reviewing Paula Rego? The fact is, I’m at odds with where to start. This is a retrospective that over-delivers, overstimulates, and quite frankly I’ve been given too much to think about. Yet I’d be disappointed with anything less. Her work minnows in and out of fantasy
- [The Masterpiece Delusion](https://newartexaminer.net/the-masterpiece-delusion/) - Laura Gascoigne Thank God for books. When shut off from real life, you can see it reflected in novels. But how accurate is the reflection? Does the mirror distort? In month 10 of the no-longer-new-abnormal I sat down with a stack of novels about artists. Some I’d read before, others were new, chief among them
- [The Mountain Lake Symposium and Workshop: Art in Locale](https://newartexaminer.net/the-mountain-lake-symposium-and-workshop-art-in-locale/) - Margaret Richardson Nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains, away from urban art centers, a “radically subversive” program began in 1980 with the goal of cultivating a “meaningful context or ‘culture’ for art”. The Mountain Lake Symposium and Workshop provided a serious but friendly forum for artists, critics, and academic and local participants. Eschewing the concerns
- [Peter Fox - Art Exhibition at Redwing Gallery, Penzance](https://newartexaminer.net/peter-fox-art-exhibition-at-redwing-gallery-penzance/) - Mary Fletcher There are 11 new paintings in this show. Peter Fox has been able to work during lockdown, relishing the quiet and the increased birdsong. Birds feature largely in these works, plus the enigmatic bird-headed goddess figure he first drew years back, whose origins probably lie in Vinca northern European culture from a
- [LIES, LIARS AND UNDERGRADUATES: The Most Interesting Article You Will Ever Read](https://newartexaminer.net/lies-liars-and-undergraduates-the-most-interesting-article-you-will-ever-read/) - Scott Winfield Sublett My dear, darling Pendery Weekes recently stepped down as Managing Editor of The New Art Examiner. She wanted more time for her unusual habit of swimming year-round in the freezing ocean off Cornwall, wearing only a bathing suit and a smile. My new boss, Pendery said, would be Daniel Nanavati, the European
- [Crafting Time: Nate Young and Mika Horibuchi at the Richard H. Driehaus Museum ](https://newartexaminer.net/crafting-time-nate-young-and-mika-horibuchi-at-the-richard-h-driehaus-museum/) - Steve Carrelli In his 2013 book Visual Time, art historian Keith Moxey writes, “Visual objects disturb and disrupt chronology rather than organize it.” He argues that works of art must be understood in terms of two temporal axes: heterochrony and anachrony. Heterochrony can be understood as the awareness that there are multiple narratives that exist
- [Thailand Vignettes of an Artist](https://newartexaminer.net/thailand-vignettes-of-an-artist/) - Kathryn Kucera At about 2AM one morning in late December of 1990 my flight from Tokyo descended into Bangkok. I’d been dozing but roused suddenly with mounting anxiety and butterflies in my belly. What if he wasn’t there to meet me? The required procedures to enter Thailand were much simpler then than they would become,
- [Volume 35 no 6 July/August 2021](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-35-no-6-july-august-2021/) - Iain Baxter& & the Amper& - Miklos Legrady Katherine Anne Porter and the Spanish flu - Frances Oliver Art for the Blind - Bridget Crowley Eat Bread and Salt and Speak the Truth - Al Jirikowic Editorial Daniel Nanavati, Cornwall, UK Speakeasy John Link Poem: Where leaps the flame - Shänne Sands Film: Sex, Pills
- [Editorial: Volume 35 no. 6 July/August 2021](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-9/) - Vale Every so often, even in sadness, it is the pleasure of an editor to thank colleagues for all their hard work and their wisdom. In May this year we said farewell to John Link, a contributing editor and long time writer for the New Art Examiner. His quality of mind is rarely equalled and
- [Speakeasy - Art, like life, is not fair](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-art-like-life-is-not-fair/) - John Link ‘Regional artist’. Being called one is not much of a compliment. Still, it is better than being called provincial or minor. All three words mean about the same thing when they refer to artists. They mean being less than the best. Regional refers to being out of it, being cut off from the
- [Sex, Pills and Crazy Women in American Movies](https://newartexaminer.net/sex-pills-and-crazy-women-in-american-movies/) - Scott Winfield Sublett Apart from Covid vaccines, the big pharmaceutical story in the US these days is the saga of Purdue Pharma, which has filed for bankruptcy and sooner or later will pay an enormous settlement to compensate for their wildly addictive pill OxyContin. It’s basically opium, peddled by street-level dealers in lab coats known
- [Katherine Anne Porter and the Spanish Flu](https://newartexaminer.net/katherine-anne-porter-and-the-spanish-flu/) - Frances Oliver We can have no idea what masterpiece, if any, will emerge from experiences of the Covid-19 pandemic. We do know that the ‘Spanish’ influenza of 1918 produced at least one classic, Katherine Anne Porter’s short story, Pale Horse, Pale Rider. The Spanish flu, another species-jumping virus, probably actually originated in America. Unlike with
- [Art for the Blind](https://newartexaminer.net/art-for-the-blind/) - Bridget Crowley Although it’s now 20 years since the introduction of audio-description of painting and sculpture in art galleries, this is still often the first question sighted people ask when I tell them that’s what I do. Before we go into the how, when and where, here are a few answers to the question from
- [Eat Bread and Salt and Speak the Truth](https://newartexaminer.net/eat-bread-and-salt-and-speak-the-truth/) - [Eat Bread and Salt and Speak the Truth (Хлеб-соль ешь, а правду-матку режь – old Russian proverb)] Al Jirikowic More often than not, critical analysis of much modern or postmodern art is stymied by its simplicity of appearance. Critically explained: the more seemingly simple or basically apparent the art is, the bigger the modernist or
- [Day of the Tentacle: Yayoi Kusama at Martin Gropius Bau](https://newartexaminer.net/day-of-the-tentacle-yayoi-kusama-at-martin-gropius-bau/) - Christian Hain The retrospective of Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama at Gropius Bau starts in the employees’ parking lot (they do still have one, despite an outspoken political agenda that doesn’t exactly approve of private transport), where we find some trees transformed into a smurf-like village, or fly agaric-styled art objects. “Hard wood, wearing a (white
- [Displaced](https://newartexaminer.net/displaced/) - Eleonora Schianchi Entering MAST, one has the impression of being teleported into another dimension, a feeling which might well be shared by anyone seeing this space for the first time. The modern and shiny building, designed by STUDIO LABICS (Rome) in 2005, is the las t thing you would expect in an historical and very
- [Pierre Alechinsky: Carta Canta](https://newartexaminer.net/pierre-alechinsky-carta-canta/) - Sam Vangheluwe To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. Samuel Beckett Belgium is a beautiful city, in the words of the previous POTUS, Brussels, alas, is a hellhole. In these times of division, polarisation and discord, nationally and internationally, we Belgians shrug our schizophrenic shoulders and
- [The History You Save May Be Your Own](https://newartexaminer.net/the-history-you-save-may-be-your-own/) - Aleksander Hudzik What do you know about socialist realism? Perhaps that it was a weird aberration in art during the Cold War era, when nebbish Soviet artists were trying to depict life in a heavy handed manner like the sculptures of Kim Jong-il that adorn every square in Pyongyang. There were paintings of workers and
- [Contemporary Art in Galleries in Milan](https://newartexaminer.net/contemporary-art-in-galleries-in-milan/) - Graziella Colombo Museums and exhibitions are open again in Milan. That’s why I’ve recently visited two different shows in two different galleries, trying to understand something more about contemporary art, which is often difficult for me to approach and appreciate to its full value and in its fullest expressive power. Mimmo Paladino is a very
- [A New Look at Italy](https://newartexaminer.net/a-new-look-at-italy/) - Anna Maria Benedetti Painting in late 19th and early 20th-century Europe isn’t only about the avant-garde! In the second half of the 19th century, the impressionists mastered a revolution by eliminating non-naturalist subjects from painting with their ‘retinal painting’ (Duchamp). They eliminated past and future in time, reducing the present to the moment. Reality was
- [Laura Knight - A Celebration](https://newartexaminer.net/laura-knight-a-celebration/) - Mary Fletcher This exhibition covers Laura Knight’s art from her early studies at Nottingham Art College to her work as a war artist. What a remarkable career she had and what a wide range of work. The book published to accompany the show has further pictures and essays and is edited by Elizabeth Knowles. We
- [That Special K.](https://newartexaminer.net/that-special-k/) - Christian Hain There are many ways to write a biography, and different reasons for reading one. At the beginning of his comprehensive work on Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980), Rüdiger Görner, German professor at London University, touches upon the difficulties in painting any ‘true’ portrait in written form, or for that matter a ‘painted’ one.
- [Volume 35 no 5 May / June 2021](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-35-no-5-may-june-2021/) - Features: Cleveland, ohio and the industrial artland Darren Jones Continues His Series On Art Scenes Across America State of Art Steven Litt’s Survey of the Ohio Art Scene Amanda D. King In Conversation With Darren Jones A hot take on ohio With Cleveland Newcomer Tizziana Baldenebro Cultural conflicts in the visual arts David Carrier The
- [Editorial: Volume 35 no 5 May June 2021](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-35-no-5-may-june-2021/) - Daniel Benshana I am planting an orchard. I have been ‘given’ a field by a friend and have 13 trees in it from last year and now he has seen it doing so well we have extended the planting to another 40 or so trees. They will be a mixture of old varieties of fruits
- [Speakeasy : Disney-fying Italian Culture](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-disneyfying-italian-culture/) - Each issue, the New Art Examiner will invite a well-known, or not so well-known, art world personality to write a speakeasy essay on a topic of interest. LIVIANA MARTIN was born in Northern Italy and lives in Milan. She has a degree in philosophy and she taught for many years. She is keen on ancient
- [Cultural Conflicts in the Visual Arts](https://newartexaminer.net/cultural-conflicts-in-the-visual-arts/) - David Carrier What happens when previously separated cultures come in contact? Often, as happened when Europeans invaded the New World from the 16th century, or very recently in the American invasion of Iraq, the militarily stronger culture ruthlessly conquers the weaker one. But frequently, also, the results include international trade. When, starting in 1528, Europeans
- [The Inward Eye](https://newartexaminer.net/the-inward-eye/) - Colin Fell Daffodils have been much on my mind recently. This is natural enough - we’re in the midst of a glorious Cornish spring, made more glorious by the easing of lockdown. And, with the promptness we’re so privileged to enjoy here, the daffs have already been and gone, their moment of splendour in the
- [Scott Turri Talks With Artist John Sims](https://newartexaminer.net/scott-turri-talks-with-artist-john-sims/) - John Sims is like a modern-day quilt-maker who weaves together at times seemingly disparate threads of media and ideas: mathematics, performance, video, music, and text, among other things. His work is layered. Although he often approaches it through a personal lens, from his lived experience navigating the world as a black man, he adroitly addresses
- [Malevich’s Windows to Eternity](https://newartexaminer.net/malevichs-windows-to-eternity/) - Stephen Luecking Popular ideas about the fourth dimension wielded significant influence from two directions on the earliest decades of modern abstraction. The first and most popular direction emerged from burgeoning esoteric beliefs where the fourth dimension served as the habitat for spiritual beings. The second direction resulted from extending spatial relationships in two-and three-dimensions of
- [Street Art, Milan](https://newartexaminer.net/street-art-milan/) - Loretta Pettinato (Translated by Laura Pettinato) Born in New York in 1972 as a rebellious, provocative movement, street art became a fully-fledged artistic movement thanks to the work of Basquiat and Kit Haring, as well as becoming a worldwide phenomenon that can be found in every city. Along with other cities, Milan recognized how much
- [Women of Art](https://newartexaminer.net/women-of-art/) - Loretta Pettinato (Translated by Laura Pettinato) An exhibition called ‘Women of Art. Stories of women from the 1500s to the 1600s’ was due to open on March 2nd 2021 in the Palazzo Reale in Milan, but its inauguration was delayed following the latest lockdown. The end of this exhibition has not been changed and it
- [Artists’ Union of England](https://newartexaminer.net/artists-union-of-england/) - Mary Fletcher The AUE Union was started in 2014. It now has over 500 members and is aiming to be affiliated to the TUC - Trades Union Congress, whose headquarters are in London. It’s therefore a very new and so far a very small trade union. I recently attended the online AGM (Annual General
- [Chaplin’s Comedy The Kid Turns 100](https://newartexaminer.net/chaplins-comedy-the-kid-turns-100/) - Scott Winfield Sublett Screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz said of Charlie Chaplin, “If people don’t sit at Chaplin’s feet, he goes out and stands where they’re sitting.” Of course, Mankiewicz might have been a bit envious. He, after all, wrote only one masterpiece, and that one not entirely solo (despite the confabulations of Mank director David Fincher).
- [In Memoriam - John Link in Art Teaching](https://newartexaminer.net/john-link-in-art-teaching/) - We republish this interview of our friend and colleague John Link, who died on May 1st 2021. John Link, retired Professor of Art, Western Michigan University, painter, and contributor to the New Art Examiner, Interview with Lily Lihting Li Kostrzewa – From Philosophy to Art to Writing: When I was in philosophy, my fellow
- [Cleveland, Ohio, and the American Industrial Artland](https://newartexaminer.net/cleveland-ohio-and-the-american-industrial-artland/) - Darren Jones Cleveland could trademark the metallic gray of its winter skies when the cloud deck merges with phreatic plumes from the fissures of growling steel mills. Such scenes exemplify what remains an extraordinary juncture of nature and human engineering in this city, despite the ravages of the rust belt’s decline. When December casts its
- [State of Art: Visual Arts Prosper in Ohio Cities Despite Conservative Political Climate](https://newartexaminer.net/state-of-art-visual-arts-prosper-in-ohio-cities-despite-conservative-political-climate/) - Steven Litt CLEVELAND, Ohio — Viewed from a distance, the State of Ohio might seem hostile territory for the visual arts, or fine arts of any kind. It’s a blood red conservative state where voters twice picked anti-cultural Donald Trump for president by an eight percent margin, and put in place a Republican-dominated legislature with
- [Cultural Progress and the Aesthetics of the Black Experience: Amanda D. King in Conversation With Darren Jones](https://newartexaminer.net/cultural-progress-and-the-aesthetics-of-the-black-experience-amanda-d-king-in-conversation-with-darren-jones/) - Amanda D. King is a creative strategist, artist, and activist pursuing justice and equity and envisioning possibilities for social transformation through arts and culture. Amanda serves as Creative Director and co-founder of Shooting Without Bullets – a nonprofit creative and social enterprise using cultural production and creative strategies to advance social movement for Black and
- [A Hot Take From a Newbie Who arrived in Cleveland During a Pandemic](https://newartexaminer.net/a-hot-take-from-a-newbie-who-arrived-in-cleveland-during-a-pandemic/) - Tizziana Baldenebro Ohio was, once upon a time, a swing state; a pendulum every four years that foretold the political outcome for the rest of the nation. As the state went, the country went. At least until 2020, when it missed the mark by eight points. But the power of the swing state mythos is
- [Karl Wirsum, A True Legend of the Chicago Art World, Dies at the age of 81  ](https://newartexaminer.net/karl-wirsum-a-true-legend-of-the-chicago-art-world-dies-at-the-age-of-81/) - Michele Feder-Nadoff Karl Wirsum was a child of the south side of Chicago, familiar with all the variants and byways of a large and hectic city - one that he truly appreciated. This backdrop could not help but influence his empathetic, spontaneous and soulful art. After working to develop his own style, he joined five
- [Volume 35 no 4 March - April 2021](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-35-no-4-march-april-2021/) - Humanity lost a year, not its soul A unique series of answers from our writers around the world in response to the Publisher’s question on the pandemic and its challenges How Do You Taste? Darren Jones Future Lovers: The Terrifying Union of Science and Art Minwen Wang UMFA: a more accurate account of shared american
- [Editorial - Volume 35 no 4 March - April 2021](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-35-no-4-march-april-2021/) - Al Jirikowic No art, worth its salt, is ever obvious. This is why art is enthralling, for art, in all its forms, constantly unfolds before us, often mysteriously. Throughout history we have never looked away from art despite everything that has shaken us. Indeed our compulsion for art exists to uncover all our stories. Bewitched
- [Speakeasy - Volume 35 no 4 March - April 2021](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-volume-35-no-4-march-april-2021/) - THE AMERICAN SCHADENFREUDE EPIDEMIC When an evil clown rules your land, you have to expect a certain decline in moral tone, and rest assured that, last year, schadenfreude reached unprecedented peaks in the United States of America. The term appeared in English as early as the mid 1800s, combining the German words for ‘damage’ and
- [Only Connect – E. M. Forster and the Joys of Online Teaching](https://newartexaminer.net/only-connect-e-m-forster-and-the-joys-of-online-teaching/) - Colin Fell In a sealed room, somewhere within the bowels of the earth, a woman named Vashti is lecturing to her unseen listeners. She’s been lecturing from underground most of her life - ‘the clumsy system of public gatherings had been long since abandoned; neither Vashti nor her audience stirred from their rooms…’ While lecturing,
- [Locked Down in California: Notes of a Curmudgeon in Paradise](https://newartexaminer.net/locked-down-in-california-notes-of-a-curmudgeon-in-paradise/) - Scott Winfield Sublett For a lot of us, the big frustration of the pandemic is how it puts the future on hold. For me, that means freeze-drying my long-treasured dream of moving to New York, something people don’t understand because their fantasy, as was mine, is that you get to California and the rest of
- [Epidemics Come and Go](https://newartexaminer.net/epidemics-come-and-go/) - Frances Oliver This is the fourth epidemic which has made abrupt changes in my life (see article in the Jan/Feb edition of the NAE); so perhaps I am less surprised by it, and less affected by lockdowns, than most people. As a writer in lockdown: during the first lockdown I kept a boring daily diary,
- [I, Too, Am a Camera](https://newartexaminer.net/i-too-am-a-camera/) - Josephine Gardiner Once every week, regardless of weather, I can be found sitting on a chair in my tiny granite courtyard with a big bowl of soapy water at my feet. I am surrounded by plastic bags of groceries delivered by the local supermarket. The task is to wash each item before passing it to
- [Continental Tribal Drift](https://newartexaminer.net/continental-tribal-drift/) - Anna Maria Benedetti We are not immortal and we are not even humble. There have been numerous epidemics throughout history: typhus, smallpox, plague, cholera. Viruses mutated and reappeared over time. The only defence was respect for simple rules of daily hygiene, frequent hand washing, keeping a safe distance from others, protecting the nose and mouth,
- [The Guardians of the Earth](https://newartexaminer.net/the-guardians-of-the-earth/) - Liviana Martin In response to the invitation of Julia and Daniel to write a brief account of the pandemic, my reflections centred not on my own moods (sense of loneliness, helplessness, fear of the unknown), which I think are common to most, but on the spread of the virus, which is also linked to environmental
- [Survival During the Pandemic](https://newartexaminer.net/survival-during-the-pandemic/) - James Cassell I’m a creature accustomed to, if not dependent on, routine. In part, I suppose, it’s my nature. It’s how I obtain some stability. I think of myself as high-strung, and I seek a steadiness and a certain predictability and control in some of the basic areas of my life. I make the bed
- [Lockdowns are Green](https://newartexaminer.net/lockdowns-are-green/) - Lynda Green I observed the lockdown last April; it was easy, the weather was outstanding, there was long awaited decorating to be done at home, and finally I had time to put my allotment in order. For a week or two I listened to the news and became increasingly paranoid about getting ill. To the
- [A Year of Doing](https://newartexaminer.net/a-year-of-doing/) - Mary Fletcher How has the past Covid year been? I am surprised how quickly I have got used to such a restricted life. I loved dancing and going to St Ives jazz club, meeting other NAE writers, seeing exhibitions, putting my art into shows, mooching about in shops, wondering if I could visit Greece again.
- [Haiku Reflections](https://newartexaminer.net/haiku-reflections/) - Anthony Viney uninvited guest sleeping in the hall – chased out by soap and water Throughout lockdown I’ve been writing haiku. It’s been rather like having a daily training session (well, more like a couple of times per week if I’m honest) and it has helped trim my somewhat flabby lockdown mind into a rather
- [A Thank You Letter](https://newartexaminer.net/a-thank-you-letter/) - Alexander Stanfield The term ‘unprecedented’ has been thrown around a lot as a means to come-to-terms and describe what we have been dealing with over the past year. While ‘unprecedented’ is extremely applicable, my past year has been sponsored by ‘managing’. Just trying to stay afloat like many others. The need for stability, or to
- [Lockdown Love](https://newartexaminer.net/lockdown-love/) - Gill Fickling I have been in an unrequited love affair for over 30 years. And what better time to indulge my passion – or at least immerse myself in his legacy of genius – than as we enter the sixth week of the third lockdown in the UK in less than 12 months. Our confinement
- [Life is Finite](https://newartexaminer.net/life-is-finite/) - Christian Hain Maybe it’s time to savour the simple fact again - challenging, empowering, terrible, all-encompassing, and indeed: beautiful. A fundamental verity that is one of the most neglected, if not actively suppressed, insights in the modern world. A globalized technocentric society has no place for fragility and contemplation, it seems; the swarm knows no
- [Socially Distanced to All](https://newartexaminer.net/socially-distanced-to-all/) - Susana Gómez Laín For me, the magazine is my actual link to the art world. I am not inspired to do any artistic work and it is difficult and dangerous to gather with other people to do so. So, through the reading of the magazine and the reviews I send, somehow I keep in touch
- [The Sea and Me](https://newartexaminer.net/the-sea-and-me/) - Annie Markovich During this unprecedented crisis and opportunity I enjoy the sea. The sea in Cornwall continues to be a steady ground when distorted thinking looms its ugly head. The water cleans the barnacles of confusion in my mind. Does it sound unrealistic, escapist or selfish? Local Cornish women and men swim in the rain
- [Voices from the Art Front](https://newartexaminer.net/voices-from-the-art-front/) - Carmella Saraceno March of 2020 was the month the world decided the best thing to do was stand still. Artists I know just kept on making art. They are creative and unstoppable. After art school, I moved to NYC and quickly learned to exchange art installation and fabrication skills for an income that would allow
- [Otto Dix: Objective Painter or Accidental Prophet?](https://newartexaminer.net/otto-dix-objective-painter-or-accidental-prophet/) - Darius Magada-Ward Few artists have captured the sheer violence, absurdity, and chaos of the phenomenon of war better than Otto Dix in Der Krieg (1924), his series of etchings visualizing his experience of World War I. This series is unique in terms of just how alien and unrecognizable both the earth and humanity become on
- [How Do You Taste? How the Value of Art is Decided and Defended](https://newartexaminer.net/how-do-you-taste-how-value-is-decided-and-defended-in-the-art-system/) - Darren Jones In the crucible of contemporary art one could be forgiven for thinking that pluralism regarding taste has gone missing. It's as though it's been kidnapped from public access and relocated within the jurisdiction of a minority of stakeholders to control what is (and isn’t) deemed important art. The coup d'état has been so successful
- [Future Lovers: the Terrifying Union of Science and Art](https://newartexaminer.net/future-lovers-the-terrifying-union-of-science-and-art/) - Minwen Wang Scientific progress can be controversial, especially when it comes to our bodies. The genetic modification of organisms, including our future selves, is a particularly sensitive issue that tends to grab headlines. Bio-scientific development can cause public alarm because for many people it strikes at our fundamental assumptions of personhood, religion and ethics. And
- [UMFA’s “Black Refractions”: A More Accurate Account of Our Shared American History](https://newartexaminer.net/umfas-black-refractions-a-more-accurate-account-of-our-shared-american-history/) - Scotti Hill On July 3, 2020, The New York Times reported that the Black Lives Matter protests in response to the May 25th death of George Floyd likely constituted the largest in United States history, garnering a half-million participants in over 500 locations at their peak. The magnitude of these events collided with an America
- [How to Raise the Water Level in a Fish Pond](https://newartexaminer.net/how-to-raise-the-water-level-in-a-fish-pond/) - Aleksander Hudzik It was a warm night in June, 1518, in the modest town called Strasburg, which nowadays sits on the border of Germany and France. There was music and there were people dancing. A woman named Frau Troffea started to dance around sunset, other people joined her and by around midnight there was a
- [Sic Transit English](https://newartexaminer.net/sic-transit-english/) - Frances Oliver So – the meaningless ‘so’ now used to begin statements by anyone questioned on the BBC – I’m going to rant on again about what is happening to the English language. I’ve already written about the absurd twists and turns of politically correct pronoun gender avoidance, which produces gems like: ‘Why would a
- [Edward Carey: The Swallowed Man](https://newartexaminer.net/edward-carey-the-swallowed-man/) - Lynda Green The Swallowed Man is a short novel, easily read in a sitting, and if you are happy to suspend reality and appreciate beautiful writing, then you’ll enjoy it. Sprinkled with charming illustrations by the author, it is the reminiscences of Geppetto, the creator/father of Pinnochio, while he is in the belly of a
- [Helen Gorrill: Women Can’t Paint: Gender, the Glass Ceiling and Values in Contemporary Art](https://newartexaminer.net/helen-gorrill-women-cant-paint-gender-the-glass-ceiling-and-values-in-contemporary-art/) - Mary Fletcher The regrettable title of this book, which I deplore, is taken from a remark by Georg Baselitz. At the start of the first chapter Gorrill refers to “masculinities and femininities in contemporary art” that I see as perpetuating unhelpful stereotypes. There is a continued muddle about these terms in the book, which
- [The Facsimile Diary of Frida Kahlo](https://newartexaminer.net/the-facsimile-diary-of-frida-kahlo/) - Mary Fletcher This is as close as I can get to holding Kahlo’s actual diary. Most of it is written in Spanish in a very legible rounded script, helpfully translated at the back of the book with black and white reproductions of the pages so that you don’t get confused, despite the lack of page
- [The Mole Agent](https://newartexaminer.net/the-mole-agent/) - Gill Fickling Do not watch this film if you are on the verge of committing yourself, or being committed, to an old people’s home. It will make you inclined to fall on your sword instead. That being said, if you feel like a good laugh followed by a good cry, then this is the film
- [Peter Doig Talks to Karl Ove Knausgård About Edvard Munch](https://newartexaminer.net/peter-doig-talks-to-karl-ove-knausgard-about-edvard-munch/) - Mary Fletcher I had not thought there was a connection between the work of Doig and Munch, but it seems Peter Doig consciously gave his picture Echo Lake similarities to the background in Edvard Munch’s Ashes. There is a similar use of swishy shapes of paint and horizontal bands of composition. There’s a similar sort
- [Michael Joo: Sensory Meridian](https://newartexaminer.net/michael-joo-sensory-meridian/) - Phillip Barcio Michael Joo’s latest solo exhibition at Chicago’s Kavi Gupta gallery is perfectly tailored to our time: exclusive and a little alienating, just like pandemic viewing restrictions. Climbing the dimly lit stairway to the second-floor exhibition space by myself, my feelings of strange solitude were amplified by the sounds of soft, incomprehensible whisperings emanating
- [Banksy: The Last Romantic](https://newartexaminer.net/banksy-the-last-romantic/) - Susana Gómez Laín They seek him here, they seek him there Those Frenchies seek him everywhere Is he in heaven or is he in hell? That damned elusive Pimpernel Baroness Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel With him/her/them (we don’t know yet), in a context of pandemia, scandal arrived at the Círculo de Bellas Artes (Fine
- [Men and Women on TV in a Zoom Meeting](https://newartexaminer.net/men-and-women-on-tv-in-a-zoom-meeting/) - Mary Fletcher I am watching Question Time, which during the Covid crisis presents us with a wall of zoomed members of the public. I am trying to draw the speakers. What strikes me is how very different men and women look. The men all wear a uniform of suit, shirt and tie if on the
- [Volume 35 no 3 January - February 2021](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-35-no-3-january-february-2021/) - Otto Dix: Objective Painter or accidental prophet? Darius Magada-Ward Death is Black and White Anthony Viney Don Kimes interviewed by Barbara rose Barbara Rose The marvel-ous future of cinema Scott Winfield Sublett The virtual outdoors Pendery Weekes Four epidemics Frances Oliver Letters Editorial Pendery Weekes, Cornwall Speakeasy Daniel Nanavati: “The Eye That is Not an
- [Editorial - Volume 35 no 3 January - February 2021](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-35-no-3-january-february-2021/) - An Invitation When the roaring twenties finally do arrive, as predicted after the rerun of the Spanish flu era comes to an end, we need to be ready to embrace the changes that will have taken place during our absence from society and make way for new scenarios. It could be positive, and it could
- [Speakeasy: The Eye That is Not an Eye -Volume 35 no 3 January - February 2021](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-the-eye-that-is-not-an-eye-volume-35-no-3-january-february-2021/) - “... I look upon that inward eye That is the bliss of solitude…” A famous quote, though some scholars believe the sentence of which this is a part was actually suggested by Dorothy, not William, Wordsworth. But the inward eye, that part of our brains that plays with images and re-imagines what we have seen,
- [Death is Black and White](https://newartexaminer.net/death-is-black-and-white/) - Anthony Viney If you have ever printed from a black-and-white film negative, you will have experienced seeing a photographic image gradually appear on white paper and, if left in the chemical bath long enough, disappear into darkness. To see something appear out of nothing and evolve towards nothing is to experience transience. Feelings of transience
- [Barbara Rose Talks with Don Kimes](https://newartexaminer.net/barbara-rose-talks-with-don-kimes/) - Republished with permission from Artscope, December 11, 2020 This is the last interview Barbara Rose conducted. I met Don Kimes in the Nineties and have watched his work develop and change over time in response to both personal and artistic challenges. We have had an ongoing dialogue ever since. Recently I saw the work he
- [The Marvel-ous Future of Cinema: How One Corporation’s Pseudo-Mythical Universe Will Control the Rest of History](https://newartexaminer.net/the-marvel-ous-future-of-cinema-how-one-corporations-pseudo-mythical-universe-will-control-the-rest-of-history/) - Scott Winfield Sublett Earlier this year I bought as much as I could afford of pandemic-depressed Disney stock at $101. I’m a university professor, so… not much. But if it gets down to 101 again, which it won’t, buy, buy, buy, because the future is written and Disney owns it. Their domination of world culture
- [The Virtual Outdoors](https://newartexaminer.net/the-virtual-outdoors/) - Pendery Weekes Just as depicted in the virtual life platform Second Life (https://secondlife.com/), launched in 2003 and still going strong, today we too are living our own second lives online, doing just about everything imaginable in front of our screens. In Second Life people can “discover incredible experiences, fascinating people, and vibrant communities in this
- [Four Epidemics](https://newartexaminer.net/four-epidemics/) - Frances Oliver There have been several epidemics in my lifetime – among them SARS, Ebola, AIDS, Swine Flu, Bird Flu – but here I will mention only those that, though they did not make me ill, in one respect or another changed my life. The first was polio. When I was a child there was
- [“Invitadas - Invited”, Miss-steps Taken in Vindication of Women Artists](https://newartexaminer.net/invitadas-invited-miss-steps-taken-in-vindication-of-women-artists/) - Susana Gómez Laín After having my temperature tested, my hands washed in hydro-alcohol and my mask well adjusted I entered, full of joy and hope after a series of lockdowns. The exhibition “Invitadas” (invited) at the Prado Museum is an event procrastinated and yearned for, wrongly expected to be of a radical feminism. It not
- [Amazons of the Avant-garde](https://newartexaminer.net/amazons-of-the-avant-garde/) - Liviana Martin The quote “Women are the vine around which everything revolves” by Leo Tolstoy welcomes us at the entrance. It is the leitmotif of the exhibition, which is divided into two parts. The first concerns the way in which the woman was represented in Russia as an artistic subject, the second exhibits the artists
- [Giambattista Tiepolo: the Painter of Fantasy](https://newartexaminer.net/giambattista-tiepolo-the-painter-of-fantasy/) - Graziella Colombo Giambattista (or Giovan Battista) Tiepolo was born in Venice in 1696 and died in Madrid in 1770. The exhibition of his work in Milan is a large and important show that will last until March 2021, unfortunately presently closed due to coronavirus infections stubbornly remaining at high levels. In the 18th-century Venice, the
- [Grayson Perry: The Vanity of Small Differences](https://newartexaminer.net/grayson-perry-the-vanity-of-small-differences/) - Mary Fletcher These six large tapestries show the Hogarthian progress of a male character on a ‘Class Journey’, using research the artist carried out when he developed his 2012 TV series All in the Best Possible Taste. There were more people in the gallery than I have ever seen there apart from pre-covid-19 opening parties.
- [Volume 35 no 2 November - December 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-35-no-2-november-december-2019/) - Features: Gentlemen prefer blondes who kick ass Scott Winfield Sublett The Julia Stoschek Collection Christian Hain in Berlin On behalf of the planet Patricia Wilson Smith in St Ives AdÚ Gill Fickling in Penzance BAIT Mary Fletcher in St Ives: A Real Joy Lynda Green in Penzance Ukeles and I kill Giants Mary Fletcher in
- [Editorial - Volume 35 no 2 November- December 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-35-no-2-november-december-2019/) - Pendery Weekes, Derek Guthrie, Daniel Nanavati Finally, with the publication of our November/December issue we’ve nearly reached the end of 2020, an ill-fated and turbulent year. It’s been a year that has kept us riveted to the news with its constant updates and restrictions being imposed, lifted and re-imposed in countries all over the world.
- [Speakeasy - Volume 35 no 2 November - December 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-volume-35-no-2-november-december-2019/) - Each issue, the New Art Examiner will invite a well-known, or not so well-known, art world personality to write a speakeasy essay on a topic of interest. Frances Oliver has published seven works of fiction and self-published three memoirs. She was born in Vienna, grew up and married in the US, and has since lived
- [The Etruscans](https://newartexaminer.net/the-etruscans/) - Loretta Pettinato Spring 2020 was an abnormal and far from ideal season. Certain spectral atmospheres resembled Hieronymus Bosch’s paintings, while also being comparable to the pandemics that disrupted societies in the past, such as the 17th-century Black Plague described by Alessandro Manzoni in I Promessi Sposi. We have been isolated, forced to interrupt physical contact,
- [Gentlemen Prefer Blondes Who Kick Ass](https://newartexaminer.net/gentlemen-prefer-blondes-who-kick-ass/) - Scott Winfield Sublett Something happened the other day that made me realize yet again how quickly and completely cinema’s idea of the erotic has changed. A 30-ish science fiction writer of my acquaintance had just watched, on my recommendation because I felt he needed cheering up, Howard Hawks’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, in which Marilyn Monroe
- [Jeremy Shaw Takes the Julia Stoschek Collection Back to the Future](https://newartexaminer.net/jeremy-shaw-takes-the-julia-stoschek-collection-back-to-the-future/) - Christian Hain It’s all very confusing indeed, and I don’t talk about that virus thing, no: even before that started, we were (mildly) shocked by Julia Stoschek’s decision to leave Berlin and take her collection to Düsseldorf, where she’s been operating another space for years. The ensuing media outcry was not limited to the German
- [On Behalf of the Planet](https://newartexaminer.net/on-behalf-of-the-planet/) - Patricia Wilson Smith On 12 September this year painter and performance artist Ken Turner took to the streets of St Ives in Cornwall to express his outrage and concern for the future of humanity and the planet. At a healthy advanced age, Ken’s crusading spirit is, if anything, stronger: his will to be heard more
- [Adú, A Child Migrant’s Harrowing Story, on Netflix](https://newartexaminer.net/adu-a-child-migrants-harrowing-story-on-netflix/) - Gill Fickling For the last months, with lockdown making cinemas out of bounds, the evenings have passed in a fog of mediocre films on Netflix. But one stands out – and continues to haunt me. Adú, a Spanish film directed by Salvador Calvo, left me in awe and in tears. Three parallel stories run
- [BAIT](https://newartexaminer.net/bait/) - Mary Fletcher Why does Mark Jenkin use black and white film which he develops himself? Is it because it looks old or suggests a shoestring budget or for aesthetic reasons? This is a film set in Newlyn, Cornwall - a fishing town where tourism has grown. The Cornish characters have authentic accents and are
- [A Real Joy](https://newartexaminer.net/a-real-joy/) - Lynda Green Take a break from the harsh realities of life as we now know it by treating yourself to two hours of pure escape in the form of the 2019 Italian film Pinocchio. Directed by Matteo Garrone, it is shot in beautiful Tuscany and stars Frederico Ielapi as the most endearing puppet you
- [Mierle Laderman Ukeles: ‘Maintenance/ Survival / and its Relation to Freedom’](https://newartexaminer.net/mierle-laderman-ukeles-maintenance-survival-and-its-relation-to-freedom/) - Mary Fletcher Mierle Laderman Ukeles mentions names familiar from the avant garde of the 1960s – Pollock, Duchamp and Rothko – pointing out that that they didn’t change diapers and that when she had a baby daughter she was suddenly in a world of maintenance, involving both mind-bending boredom and the rediscovery of the world
- [I Kill Giants](https://newartexaminer.net/i-kill-giants/) - Mary Fletcher This film is about Barbara, a young secondary school attender, constructing an elaborate fantasy that helps her deal with an unbearable situation. We see people trying to help her and some girls being nasty to her in the general odious ways of school bullies. I would have liked to have seen the narrative
- [The Maison Wears the Renaissance](https://newartexaminer.net/the-maison-wears-the-renaissance/) - Anita Di Rienzo Garments, from lingerie to overcoats, have always denoted the economic and social status of the wearer, no matter if the latter is tall or short, thin or fat, elegant or lacking in bearing because every dress is a message and every colour a choice. Spokeswoman for this modern truth is Amanda Presley,
- [So Long As We Still Live - The 9th Young Triennale at Orońsko](https://newartexaminer.net/so-long-as-we-still-live-the-9th-young-triennale-at-oronsko/) - Katie Zazenski On a gigantic, anthropomorphized sun-like circle, made of peach satin and suspended on the back wall of the exhibition hall, is the declaration Wierzę w Bezinteresowność Sztuki (I believe in the selflessness of art). Shirts and pants arranged in the form of two angel-like figures are surrounded by hand-stitched text bubbles. Strongly reminiscent
- [Let the World Follow, Let Imagination Lead](https://newartexaminer.net/let-the-world-follow-let-imagination-lead/) - Ken Turner I want to change the world, I fail all the time Alfredo Jarr It’s funny when you create an image on a canvas and it looks back at you. Funny in the sense of being something other, a thing of difference and strangeness to one’s own idea of life, how we see and
- [Fugue State](https://newartexaminer.net/fugue-state/) - Al Jirikowic ‘Dissociative fugue’ is a type of amnesia that is caused by an extreme psychological trauma instead of physical trauma, illness, or other medical condition. It's severe, and considered rare. If we review a few articles of recent Art News, clearly the main theme revolves around activities that provide for the Covid19 closed down
- [The Subject is the Object, the Legacies of Minimalism](https://newartexaminer.net/7147-2/) - Kathryn Hixson From the Archives: This piece first appeared in the New Art Examiner in May 1991 with Derek Guthrie as Publisher and Howard Yana-Shapiro as Acting Publisher. Kathryn Hixson was a freelance writer living in Chicago contributing to Arts and The Journal of Art. Though American art produced in the 1980s and early 1990s
- [Art Nouveau in Milan](https://newartexaminer.net/art-nouveau-in-milan/) - Graziella Colombo Milan is still a city made of stone and iron, stucco and bronze, stained glass, mosaics and ceramics. It is the Milan of Liberty, the instantly recognisable Art Nouveau style, innovative in the use of materials, which became popular at the beginning of the 20th century. Milan is the result of the
- [The Wounds of History](https://newartexaminer.net/the-wounds-of-history/) - Liviana Martin Città di Castello, a town in the province of Perugia, has one of the largest collections of works by Alberto Burri (1915-1995). With its vast rooms, Palazzo Albizzini houses 129 works by this maestro of informal art and tireless experimenter who was capable of giving nobility and artistic form to the poorest
- [An Elegant Stench](https://newartexaminer.net/an-elegant-stench/) - Aleksander Hudzik Perhaps one of the most overused and detached from its original meaning is the philosophical adage that states: ‘the limits of my language are the limits of my world’. Let’s risk using this phrase to recapture its meaning in a way that its author, philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, wouldn’t be happy about. Linguistic difficulties
- [Ernest Griset](https://newartexaminer.net/ernest-griset/) - Daniel Nanavati In July 1877 several obituary notices were published about Ernest Griset. The Publishers Record stated: “Griset was very happy in illustrating the Darwinian change of an animal into a man, and of combining men and animals, something after the manner of Grandville. He was quite French in his manner, though he had lived
- [BOOK REVIEW – Ludwig Bemelmans](https://newartexaminer.net/book-review-ludwig-bemelmans/) - Frances Oliver The Covid lockdown has sent me back to old favourite books, and I have just revisited two by Ludwig Bemelmans, one from my parents’ art book collection, My Life in Art, and a battered autobiography, Life Class, from mine. Ludwig Bemelmans (1898–1962), born Austro-Hungarian, later American, was a writer and painter renowned chiefly
- [Art and Vandals: ‘The Falling Angel’](https://newartexaminer.net/art-and-vandals-the-falling-angel/) - Susana Gómez Laín Lately, the coronavirus world pandemic and social riots of all kinds have been the excuse for too many vandals to behead, daub, overturn, vilify, revile, insult, degrade – I run out of words and synonyms - many statues and busts are erected to commemorate the glory of some historical characters of all
- [Volume 35 no 1 September / October 2020 - The Attentive Artist](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-35-no-1-september-october-2020-the-attentive-artist/) - Thirty Three Arch Bridge (c1602, Isfahan, Iran) Thanks to the patronage of Shah Abbas 1, a period began in which richness of details, magnificence of colours and compositional imaginativeness found expression in complex buildings and above all urban development on a huge but serene scale of calm grandeur. In the magnificence of projects, their calibrated
- [Volume 35 no 1 September / October 2020](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-35-no-1-september-october-2020/) - Features: 6 An American Child and the Victorian Radicals - James Cassell 9 Intimate Art - Daniel Nanavati 11 Utah can be the Art Scene of the West - Alexander Stanfield 13 In response to Darren Jones on the Whitney Biennial - Al Jirikowic 15 Chairs, Tables and Sex - Frances Oliver 16 Defund the
- [Volume 35 no 1 September / October 2020: Editorial - When Politics and Sculpture Collide](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-35-no-1-september-october-2020-editorial-when-politics-and-sculpture-collide/) - Margaret Lanterman Art as political and social comment has a very long and effective history, but the artist’s intent and the message of the work has often been abused for political ends. This repurposing can happen well before the art is installed, or long after. Public sculpture monuments are not a simple thing to discuss
- [Speakeasy: How Artists get on in the World](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-how-artists-get-on-in-the-world/) - Years ago I started to keep a note on the details in artists’ biographies recording who their parents were, their wealth, etc. Most were well off and many had a parent or spouse who was already an artist. Others married their success. Anna Boghiguian, who had a big solo show at Tate St Ives, was
- [An American Child of the 1960s Revisits England’s Victorian Radicals](https://newartexaminer.net/an-american-child-of-the-1960s-revisits-englands-victorian-radicals/) - James Cassell From the Yale Center for British Art Yale University in New Haven holds the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom. The museum’s founder and chief benefactor, Paul Mellon, a 1929 Yale alumnus, had gold-certified ties to England. First, his mother was English and many of his childhood summers were spent
- [Intimate Art](https://newartexaminer.net/intimate-art/) - by Daniel Nanavati Let’s talk sex in the art world. Not the male predilection for the female body, from painting to having sex with models, but as a bona fide trade that defies our society’s efforts to create a meritocracy. I thought of this piece when reading Mary Fletcher’s Speakeasy, which appears in this issue,
- [Utah Can Be the Arts Center of the West, But It’s Not There Yet](https://newartexaminer.net/utah-can-be-the-arts-center-of-the-west-but-its-not-there-yet/) - Alexander Stanfield Utah isn’t known for its arts scene – aside from a couple of collectives, a handful of museums, and an occasional festival, Utah lacks much of the appeal held by the art juggernauts in the States. Unlike those heavy hitters, tourist art is a big player in Utah’s art market; the prairie/mountain landscapes
- [In Response to Darren Jones, “Is it Time to End the Whitney Biennial”?](https://newartexaminer.net/in-response-to-darren-jones-is-it-time-to-end-the-whitney-biennial/) - Al Jirikowic I think there are many facets to the question Darren poses – but off hand my response is YES, end the Biennial – but with a great caveat. A caveat which inspires me to think we must question the real purpose of the Whitney, MOMA, the Guggenheim et al, with respect to the
- [Chairs, Tables and Sex](https://newartexaminer.net/chairs-tables-and-sex/) - Frances Oliver As I begin to read a review* in my favourite magazine, The New York Review of Books, I am caught up short by the following: “… Gessen’s credentials as an observer of autocracy are impeccable. Aged fifty-three, they (Gessen identifies as binary) spent their childhood …” Who are they? Oh of course –
- [Defund the Police, Refund the Arts](https://newartexaminer.net/defund-the-police-refund-the-arts/) - Viktor Witkowski I call the United States my home. Poland is my native land and Germany my homeland. In the current political situation in the U.S., where one political party has abdicated responsibility, I find myself looking to Europe for answers and possible solutions. In the USA the pandemic and its volatile virus have been
- [The Presence of Painting](https://newartexaminer.net/the-presence-of-painting/) - Steven Carrelli A year ago this month my wife Louise and I sat at the kitchen table of our friends Adam and Charlene Fung in Fort Worth, Texas, and we played a game called Pandemic. It is a cooperative game in which each player has a different specialty, and their task is to work together
- [The Origins of Art](https://newartexaminer.net/the-origins-of-art/) - Anthony Viney Why is visual art produced by people and not normally by animals? (We know that elephants and chimpanzees can and do create interesting art in captivity but not, as far as we know, in the wild.) When did human beings start to create art, and what environmental, physical and neurological changes happened to
- [Mix and Match](https://newartexaminer.net/mix-and-match/) - Margaret Richardson VA Made: ‘Mediation Across Media’ at the Branch Museum of Architecture and Design in Richmond, Virginia (July 17 - September 13, 2020) offers a unique opportunity to realize relationships between divergent media and expand one’s perspective of ‘things’. Co-organized by Howard Risatti and Steven Glass, this ambitious exhibition features works circa 1955-2019, from
- [Last of the Monster Roster](https://newartexaminer.net/last-of-the-monster-roster/) - Michele Feder-Nadoff Theodore (Ted) Halkin (1924-2020) Chicago artist, well-loved husband, father, professor, and friend, died on August 11, 2020 at the age of 96. Ted was associated with the 1950s group of Chicago artists known as the Monster Roster. Like many in this group, he was a WWII veteran and is also considered one of
- [The Bahnhof is an Installation in Itself](https://newartexaminer.net/the-bahnhof-is-an-installation-in-itself/) - by Christian Hain Quite unexpectedly, a visitor’s first thought upon entering Katharina Grosse’s single–work show at Hamburger Bahnhof Museum might be: ‘Underwhelming’. That’s remarkable, because the German artist is known - and very well known, being represented by some of the best multinational powerhouse galleries - for ‘in your face’ artworks that are as powerful
- [Inge Morath: Photographer](https://newartexaminer.net/inge-morath-photographer/) - by Graziella Colombo A hundred and fifty shots by Inge Morath, all in rigorous black and white, are exhibited at the Diocesan Museum in Milan and will remain there until November 1, 2020. It’s a vast retrospective, enriched with original documents, dedicated to the first woman photographer admitted to the Magnum Agency. She joined Magnum
- [Venice - Not only the Biennale](https://newartexaminer.net/venice-not-only-the-biennale/) - by Liviana Martin I spent a weekend in Venice after the lockdown to rediscover art galleries and artists’ studios that are finally reopening, or are under refurbishment. I visited the historic and prestigious Contini Gallery; founded by Stefano Contini in 1979, it has three offices in Venice and one in Cortina d’Ampezzo. Over the
- [Looking Out Over the Cornish Riviera](https://newartexaminer.net/looking-out-over-the-cornish-riviera/) - by Pendery Weekes Once again Monsieur Marcel Grenouille from Nantes has done his good deed for the day and has included an unknown artist in the summer Art Festival 2020 at Port Pierre Canto Marina in Cannes. This year the unknown is Freya Stephan with her painting, Looking Out Over the Cornish Riviera. It was
- [Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii – Photographer and Explorer](https://newartexaminer.net/sergei-prokudin-gorskii-photographer-and-explorer/) - by Colin Fell In the chaos of 1918, a few months after the Bolshevik revolution which would transform Russia, a middle aged man boarded a train bound for Norway, unaware that he would never again see his beloved motherland. Although he had left behind him his money and property, he wasn’t travelling light – with
- [Home is Where the Art is (UK TV BBC1)](https://newartexaminer.net/home-is-where-the-art-is-uk-tv-bbc1/) - by Mary Fletcher Three artists go round the potential client’s house, as they put it, ‘snooping’. They meet the buyers and pitch for a commission. One is thrown out. The remaining two make some art. The buyers choose between the results. Most of the art is absolutely dreadful and so is the rest of the
- [Bette Davis and the Consummately Camp Epidemiology of Jezebel](https://newartexaminer.net/bette-davis-and-the-consummately-camp-epidemiology-of-jezebel/) - by Scott Winfield Sublett A reliable escape from the current horror show of life in these United States is the streaming of old movies, and a zeitgeisty choice is the 1938 Bette Davis vehicle Jezebel, a mesmerizing melodrama that climaxes with an epidemic. No, really - you want to see this epidemic. Jezebel was Jack
- [Alan Emerson Hicks at the Center on Halstead](https://newartexaminer.net/alan-emerson-hicks-at-the-center-on-halstead/) - by Stephen Luecking Alan Emerson Hicks salvages plastic parts in bulk quantities and then assembles these into both two-dimensional art and sculptures. These colorful leftovers from the manufacture of various common objects become art of whimsy and fancy, often with a buoyant intelligence and depth. Hicks has realized those depths at his recent exhibit at
- [The Pandemic](https://newartexaminer.net/poem-lockdown-is-a-running-stream/) - by William Foster Lockdown is a running stream Trapped by a binding dam Lockdown is vulnerable and exposed Like sitting ducks on an open pond We wait and wait and wait Lockdown looms over us Lifelike Staring at the world with sullen eyes Life now like a trapped animal In a cage ricocheting against itself
- [Utah is Every State: Visibility in an Unseeing American Art System](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-introduction-a-cartographic-analysis-of-art-in-utah/) - Each issue, the New Art Examiner will invite an art world personality to write a speakeasy essay on a topic of interest. Darren Jones is a Scottish art critic based in the United States. In 2020 his work was selected for Honorable Mention at the Toni Beauchamp Prize for Critical Art Writing; in 2018 he
- [The Changing Landscape of Utah Art](https://newartexaminer.net/the-changing-landscape-of-utah-art/) - By Scotti Hill in Utah As a state, Utah conjures two predominant associations: Mormonism and mountains. Maybe parks and monuments too. But Salt Lake City, one of the youngest and fastest–growing metro areas in the nation, is today animated by a vibrant counterculture, overflowing with coffee shops, microbreweries, and community murals. Utah boasts a thriving
- [Contemporary Art and Ambition in the American West](https://newartexaminer.net/contemporary-art-and-ambition-in-the-american-west/) - by Darren Jones, Contributing Editor, in Salt Lake City Utah is a romantic wanderer’s grail: its chromatic spectrum, the metaphysical power of its topographies and its geopolitical location combine to make it the nexus of lore and industry which defines the Western United States. Utah’s history has often set epic human endeavor against celestial grandeur,
- [Peaks and Valleys: The Rise of Utah’s Alternative Art Platforms](https://newartexaminer.net/peaks-and-valleys-the-rise-of-utahs-alternative-art-platforms/) - By Christopher Lynn in Utah Geologically, the state of Utah is a panoply of strata, formations, and colors. From the sterile expanses of the Bonneville Salt Flats, to the soaring peaks of the Wasatch Mountain Range, to the otherworldly red rock deserts of the south, Utah is constantly and slowly changing. Wind and water contour
- [The Canonisation of Surrealism in the United States pt 2](https://newartexaminer.net/the-canonisation-of-surrealism-in-the-united-states-pt-2/) - by Sandra Zalman in USA Historicizing Dada and Surrealism As Barr contemplated his retirement as Director of Collections at MoMA, he chose a young art historian, William Rubin, who was then working on a major study of Dada and Surrealism, to be his successor. In 1966, Rubin was hired as a guest curator for the
- [She BAM! Interview with Laetitia Gorsy](https://newartexaminer.net/she-bam-interview-with-laetitia-gorsy/) - by Viktor Witkowski in Berlin In 2018, Laetitia Gorsy opened up her gallery She BAM! in the Spinnerei, located in the East German city of Leipzig. Over three decades, the Spinnerei - a former late 19th-century cotton factory - has become a hub for artists, galleries, residencies, other cultural institutions and ventures attracting tens of
- [Who was Olympia?](https://newartexaminer.net/who-was-olympia/) - by Vaughan Allen An instantly recognisable woman’s face appeared in two notorious paintings by 19th-century French artist Edouard Manet – but who was she? In Le Déjeuner sur L’Herbe (The Luncheon on the Grass, 1862-3) a naked woman nonchalantly disports herself next to two men: the artist’s future brother-in-law Ferdinand Leenhoff, and a hybrid of
- [On Olympia](https://newartexaminer.net/on-olympia/) - by Josephine Gardiner in Cornwall The reason why Manet’s painting of Victorine Meurent in Olympia outraged the gallery-going public of 1865 was that it appeared to show a prostitute: the artist included many items which, apparently, were associated with prostitution in mid 19th-century Paris, though their significance would be lost on the modern viewer. Worse,
- [The Mindless Image Making of A.I.](https://newartexaminer.net/the-mindless-image-making-of-a-i/) - by Stephen Luecking in Chicago There is a romantic notion that art is the last bastion of truly human expression. Consequently, news of inroads of artificial intelligence into art invariably generate apprehensions of AI’s deleterious effect on all things human. At the center of that phobia is the algorithm. Somehow this seemingly mysterious entity has
- [Reviewing the Reviewer](https://newartexaminer.net/reviewing-the-reviewer/) - A Review of Peter Schjeldahl Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light, 100 Art Writings 1988-2018 by Victoria Howard in Cornwall Jarrett Earnest has compiled 100 of the art writings of Peter Schjeldahl, the art critic on The New Yorker. I imagine Earnest and Schjeldahl chose together which pieces would go in the final version. Earnest’s other contribution
- [From Digital to Material](https://newartexaminer.net/from-digital-to-material/) - The Curious Case of the Nativity with St Francis and St Lawrence by Caravaggio by Anita Di Rienzo in Milan In 1936 Walter Benjamin published The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, a short essay on the reproducibility of artistic artefacts through the technological innovations of the 20th century and the consequent
- [All Our Difficult Moments, or Finger–Painting from the 1400s](https://newartexaminer.net/all-our-difficult-moments-or-finger-painting-from-the-1400s/) - by Anna Maria Benedetti in Milan Before flying to the Metropolitan Museum in New York and then to the Louvre, the only painting by Leonardo in the Vatican collections or anywhere else in Rome was exhibited for three months in 2019 at the Braccio di Carlo Magno in St Peter’s Square. The image of San
- [The Story of Women](https://newartexaminer.net/the-story-of-women/) - by Loretta Pettinato in Brescia Translated by Laura Pettinato Starting from January 2020, various Italian cities began promoting different cultural initiatives which revolve around the female universe, to pay tribute to women. Inside the Martinengo Palace in Brescia an exhibition has been organized with artwork from 1500 to 1900, entitled Women in Art. There are
- [K - A Triptych on Power](https://newartexaminer.net/k-a-triptych-on-power/) - by Liviana Martin in Milan Before being closed for Covid19, for a few days the Prada Foundation in Milan celebrated the genius of Kafka with an exhibition conceived as a triptych that includes a film, a soundtrack and an installation. In the novels that make up the Trilogy of Solitude (The Trial, Amerika, The Castle),
- [Keith Piper: The Perfect City (2007), 12 mins, Vimeo](https://newartexaminer.net/keith-piper-the-perfect-city-2007-12-mins-vimeo/) - by Mary Fletcher in Cornwall This video work was first shown as a two-screen installation in PM Gallery London, funded by Film London. The version on Vimeo is a compelling short narrative by the artist with a complex series of images. There is the paper model of the design he is making of an archetypal
- [The Great Exhibition of 2020](https://newartexaminer.net/the-great-exhibition-of-2020/) - by Pendery Weekes in Cornwall With shops locked down and transformed into gallery spaces from one day to the next, the Great Exhibition of 2020 surpassed expositions of all time for its extraordinary and extensive size in square kilometres, the largest international exhibition ever opened. Notwithstanding the great expense incurred by this Herculean exhibition, sadly
- [Fictitious Landscapes - 原本在是次展覧展出的駐港藝術家陸浩明](https://newartexaminer.net/fictitious-landscapes/) - by Ivy Leung in Hong Kong Due to the ravages of Covid-19, the Art Basel Hong Kong 2020 held in Hong Kong every March was cancelled. The works of Hong Kong-based artist Andrew Luk (b.1988) and the post-war master Chu Teh-Chun (1920-2014), originally planned to be exhibited in Art Basel, are in the de Sarthe
- [Slavery Refined for Liberals](https://newartexaminer.net/slavery-refined-for-liberals/) - by Annie Markovich When it was possible to visit the Tate in person, toward the end of February, all the press packs for Fons Americanus were gone. A double bill with Olafur Eliasson’s In Real Life drew crowds, and on a Friday night Tate Turbine was packed, hopping with a dance club atmosphere. Massive halls,
- [Volume 34 no 5 May / June 2020](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-34-no-5-may-june-2020/) - ARTICLES: THE ART OF THE NAKED APE Miklos Legrady, Toronto Editor LEONARDO DA VINCI MUSEUM, MILAN Anna Maria Benedetti EVERY JOKE HIDES A TRUTH Al Jirikowic on the movie Joker ISAAC LEVITAN, RUSSIAN MASTER Colin Fell, our new writer in Penzance DEPARTMENTS: 2 LETTERS 4 EDITORIAL BY Pendery Weekes 5 SPEAKEASY BY Jack Balas
- [Editorial - Volume 34 no 5 May / June 2020](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-34-no-5-may-june-2020/) - By Pendery Weekes This issue of the New Art Examiner is unique. Nearly all of us around the world have been under some form of lock-down. Some of us have been confined to our homes, others are allowed to go out for essential food shopping, to pick up medicines at the pharmacy, or to do
- [SPEAKEASY - A proposal to support artists from auctions](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-a-proposal-to-support-artists-from-auctions/) - NEWS FLASH: SOTHEBY'S AND CHRISTIE'S (ET AL.) ANNOUNCE IMMEDIATE WORLDWIDE PRICE CAP OF $1M* FOR ALL WORKS OF ART, FOR ALL ERAS AND FOR ALL TIME. (*realized gain above original purchase price) Ah, what if? Think about it: an absolute cap of one million dollars (US) in a seller’s profit for any and all works
- [The Artwork of The Naked Ape](https://newartexaminer.net/the-artwork-of-the-naked-ape/) - by Miklos Legrady, Toronto Editor Michel Foucault says “in every society the production of discourse is at once controlled, selected, organized and distributed” (The Discourse on Language, Dec. 2, 1970). American sociologist Herbert J. Gans writes of “gatekeepers”. Repeated complaints from peers tell us that over the last decades, academics restricted art to intellectual
- [Leonardo da Vinci](https://newartexaminer.net/leonardo-da-vinci/) - by Anna Maria Benedetti in Milan On the first floor of what was once the Convent of the Humiliated, there is a permanent exhibition dedicated to Leonardo da Vinci. The presentation of this new space has recently ended after numerous interventions by authorities from the cultural, artistic and political world. The galleries are in the
- [Every Joke Hides a Truth](https://newartexaminer.net/every-joke-hides-a-truth/) - by Al Jirikowic, Washington DC Editor Joker, the latest film by Todd Phillips, is a work of art. All the characters carry modern American ‘allegorical weight’. They are metaphorical constructs. I saw compounded layers of inherent mental-social problems, the deft compilation of ‘mental glazes’ layered, as a fine Renaissance painting presents itself, as the actors
- [Isaac Levitan, the Russian Master](https://newartexaminer.net/isaac-levitan-the-russian-master/) - by Colin Fell in Cornwall Before me on my desk as I write is a thin sheet of orange plastic. It is the outline of what was, to a child growing up in England at the height of the Cold War, the known world of Europe. In our geography lessons we would place this template
- [Tragédie Française](https://newartexaminer.net/tragedie-francaise/) - by Frances Oliver I wrote recently about a just republished book from my parents’ art book collection, Saul Steinberg’s Labyrinth. Another of their books I treasure, a very different book that some might find almost unbearable to look at, is Frans Masereel’s Danse Macabre, the drawings that are his own 20th-century version of the plague-inspired
- [Hidden Within](https://newartexaminer.net/hidden-within/) - by Anita Di Rienzo, Milan. Ancient paintings are often referred to as ‘pieces of history’, a definition which explains how a work of art acquires greater meaning, showing how we are able to historicise and exchange information through paintings. What is a painting in the end if not the only language common to all,
- [The Canonisation of Surrealism in the United States part (1 of 2)](https://newartexaminer.net/the-canonisation-of-surrealism-in-the-united-states-part-1-of-2/) - Sandra Zalman (reprinted with permission) Sandra Zalman is Associate Professor and Program Director of Art History at the University of Houston, where she teaches classes on modern and contemporary art, museums, and curatorial issues Her book Consuming Surrealism in American Culture: Dissident Modernism, won the 2016 SECAC Award for Excellence in Research and Publication
- [Making Art, Negotiating Space, and Finding Comfort in the Age of Covid-19](https://newartexaminer.net/making-art-negotiating-space-and-finding-comfort-in-the-age-of-covid-19/) - Katie Zazenski from Warsaw By the second week of March 2020, systems across the US began grinding to a halt, ushering in the great online migration. Much of the rest of the affected world had already begun this process, provoked by the coronavirus pandemic, which, alarming health concerns aside, has produced waves of logistical confusion
- [A Significant Fresh Start is Coming our Way](https://newartexaminer.net/a-significant-fresh-start-is-coming-our-way/) - Ben Russo in Holland Infection, virus, asymptomatic, remote, and assembly are continuously heard in official communications, by the media, and in our everyday dialogue, placing them among the most sought-after and fashionable words to be used at the moment. In a not so distant past, as heard in Europe and other parts of the
- [Leon Golub: A Country No Longer United](https://newartexaminer.net/leon-golub-a-country-no-longer-united/) - Viktor Witkowski Leon Golub would certainly find many reasons and occasions to make paintings of our current time. He would not feel elevated about that prospect in any way, but he would understand and accept the responsibility to find ways for painting to engage its viewers beyond pictorial references and formalist nodes to past as
- [Bidden to the light](https://newartexaminer.net/bidden-to-the-light/) - Liviana Martin The first exhibition in Italy dedicated to Georges de La Tour: 15 paintings out of 40 of certain attribution, compared with masters of his time, such as Gerrit van Honthorst, Paulus Bor, Trophime Bigot, Frans Hals Let’s imagine that a dark room is illuminated by a dim candlelight and that from the dark
- [The Role of A Post–COVID Museum](https://newartexaminer.net/the-role-of-a-post-covid-museum/) - Alexander Stanfield, West Coast Editor (USA) If I were to ask you, what is a museum, no matter what your answer is, the more pressing inquiry is what is the function of a museum? What role or responsibility does a museum have to the community it engages with mentally or emotionally? The actual definition of
- [Interview with the artist Donna Nadeau](https://newartexaminer.net/interview-with-the-artist-donna-nadeau/) - (with European Editor Daniel Nanavati, conducted over Skype) You obviously always wanted to be an artist? DN: Yes. When I was in high school, I graduated in the 70s, back then I was told that there wasn’t very much money and we had one boy and three girls. So if someone was going to
- [A brilliant madness](https://newartexaminer.net/a-brilliant-madness/) - Loretta Pettinato (Translated by Laura Pettinato) The artist Emilio Vedova, born in 1919, was able to renovate the artistic language of his time thanks to his brilliant madness and extraordinary instincts. Palazzo Reale celebrated the centenary of his birth by setting up a retrospective of his art which, through constant research and experimentation, morphed from
- [Bodies and gods](https://newartexaminer.net/bodies-and-gods/) - by Mary Fletcher Evelyn Williams Evelyn Williams died in 2012, having completed a body of work said to be hard to categorise and having left a Trust to help women artists. I was told at Anima Mundi that the director, Joseph Clark, found a painting by her in a charity shop in Wadebridge and
- [A Realistic Manifesto at the Tate, St Ives](https://newartexaminer.net/a-realistic-manifesto-at-the-tate-st-ives/) - by Mary Fletcher On the way in through Gallery One there is a beautiful golden coloured Gabo made of bronze, looking a bit too large for its corner, and apparently at one stage it was in the main show. It is simple – geometric metal formed into a curvilinear form, constructed using machinery to achieve
- [David Hosking](https://newartexaminer.net/david-hosking/) - Lynda Green David Hosking, an old friend and artist based in Porthleven, died recently. I was deeply saddened and worried for his wife, they were a devoted couple. His pictures were bright, cheerful, stylised scenes, many of them seascapes. Vaguely cubist, a little Paul Klee, but essentially true to his own self, they were not
- [Un-/Veiled: Art In the Time of Corona / De/Maskiert: Die Kunst in den Zeiten des Corona. Eine Christo & Jeanne-Claude Retrospektive am Palais Populaire, Berlin](https://newartexaminer.net/un-veiled-art-in-the-time-of-corona-a-christo-jeanne-claude-retrospective-at-palais-populaire-berlin/) - by Christian Hain (This article was written before the news of Christo's death) Berlin galleries are open again under certain restrictions due to the on-going “virus crisis”. Wearing a face mask is obligatory, and patrons need to book a timeslot online for their visit. While most institutions and commercial galleries have opted for a soft
- [Volume 34 no 4 March-April 2020](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-34-no-march-april-2020/) - Features: 7 No Art Superstars from Israel - Daniel Nanavati, Tel Aviv 10 The reality of Gabo does not match the expectation - Ken Turner, St Ives 13 Sculpting mathematics - Stephen Luecking, Chicago 18 Scouting the blogs - Miklos Legrady, Toronto Departments: 2 Letters 4 Editorial by Daniel Nanavati 6 Speakeasy by Gill Fickling
- [Editorial Volume 34 no 4 March - April 2020](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-34-no-4-march-april-2020/) - There are some paintings you look at and you wonder who the people were, you muse about the time and place, the fashion, the thinking of the characters and you inspect as far as you are able the skill of the artist. But you have to take another step in your mind to consider philosophical
- [Speakeasy volume 34 no 4 March/April 2020](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-volume-34-no-4-march-april-2020/) - I watched in horror as a nurse passed a wooden ladle full of food through the bars of Julio’s cell. Naked, wild-haired and eyed, 21-year-old Julio pressed himself up to the other side of the bars and opened his mouth wide to accommodate the huge spoon. Having spent the last 14 years of his young
- [No art superstars from Israel](https://newartexaminer.net/no-art-superstars-from-israel/) - Given the chance to visit the Tel Aviv Museum of Art and to consider the work and place of contemporary Israeli artists, my mind was filled with expectation. Surely the people who had produced Camille Pisarro and Marc Chagall, rumours about Rembrandt’s Jewish ancestry, Mark Rothko, Amedeo Modigliani, Leon Golub, Naum Gabo, Lucian Freud, Sonia
- [The reality of Gabo doesn't match the expectation](https://newartexaminer.net/the-reality-of-gabo-doesnt-match-the-expectation/) - What I would see and hoped to see was the unexpected and unfathomable. I was on a journey. First to the grandeur and weight against the land of sand and rocks of the sea on Porthmeor. Then to the concrete face of the Tate gallery where I was to liberate my perceptions of life through
- [Sculpting Mathematics](https://newartexaminer.net/sculpting-mathematics/) - Mathematics has had a profound effect in shaping modern art: not in its ability to generate attractive patterns but in exposing the artists to spatial possibilities not easily observed in their physical world. One such spatial possibility is the fourth dimension, which is, for the most part, inaccessible to human perception. The question of whether
- [Girl's World](https://newartexaminer.net/girls-world/) - Take a second look. The exhibit is a nuanced Janus presentation of girlhood well worth the visit. Together, two artists break taboos and give us a revealing look at the state of contemporary girlhood. These friends have made a thorough study of childhood and undoubtedly remember their own as they show us some surprising interpretations
- [Empathy Fatigue](https://newartexaminer.net/empathy-fatigue/) - Empathy Fatigue at Andrew Rafacz raises some interesting questions. There are so many things to be fatigued about. Our ex-governor just returned home to Chicago from prison where he served a partial sentence for odious crimes, commuted by our current president. There is little surprise in one thug having empathy for another, but the existence
- [New York feels empty now](https://newartexaminer.net/new-york-feels-empty-now/) - It's 1995. I’m with my brother in Soho; I live five minutes away on Stanton St; he's visiting from California. We're walking past Broome Street warehouses washed by winter sun, that cold yellow light on white painted brick. We visit one gallery after another. George says it feels like post-apocalyptic times. Money's gone, the markets
- [A brief history of permanence](https://newartexaminer.net/a-brief-history-of-permanence/) - Antonio Canova and Bertel Thorvaldsen, the two sculptors currently on show in Milan, share the the desire - together with the ability - to capture ideals in marble, to make beauty permanent. When I left the gallery I found myself spontaneously comparing this search for infinity with various forms of contemporary art - its transience,
- [Pandemic Programming: Have You Had Enough of Virtual Exhibitions?](https://newartexaminer.net/pandemic-programming-have-you-had-enough-of-virtual-exhibitions/) - As with every aspect of life today, Covid-19 has drastically altered how the art world does business. Back in March, when federal and state governments forced art institutions to shut their doors to the public, it was surprising how quickly museums and galleries embraced the wholesale move to digitization. While internet-based creative production is nothing
- [In Search of a Visual Reward](https://newartexaminer.net/in-search-of-a-visual-reward/) - Writing about art is an art in itself. I join in with the cliché, ‘I don’t know much about art but I know what I like.’ For years I assumed that it’s in the seeing that believing comes. Now I feel it’s become the other way round, as in religion where believing affects the seeing,
- [We all suffer from psychoanalysis](https://newartexaminer.net/we-all-suffer-from-psychoanalysis/) - The Exchange’s part of this show had a recording of Grace Pailthorpe explaining in detail one of Mednikoff’s paintings, using Freudian and Kleinian ideas about everything relating to his experience as a baby, his earliest supposed feelings about his mother, his faeces etc. She speaks with a remarkable certainty about the meaning of each element
- [Grace Hartigan: Reluctant Feminist](https://newartexaminer.net/grace-hartigan-reluctant-feminist/) - Critical reappraisals of women artists continue unabated, as they legitimately challenge historical omissions and, in some cases, neglect. In this environment the American University Museum in Washington DC mounted, in fall 2019, an exhibit of so-called ‘second generation’ Abstract Expressionist artists, Grace Hartigan and Helene Herzbrun. (This review concerns Hartigan only.) It would be hard
- [Fish for Art](https://newartexaminer.net/fish-for-art/) - Haarlem, a small medieval Dutch city with more than seven and half centuries of history, can be found between Amsterdam and the sandy beaches of the North Sea. For most of its existence, Haarlem, like many similar municipalities scattered throughout the Netherlands, was a trading post for goods and services in its province. Haarlem was
- [Raphael in Milan](https://newartexaminer.net/raphael-in-milan/) - Five hundred years ago on Good Friday, 6 April 1520, Raffaello Sanzio, known as Raphael, died in Rome, leaving the world in sorrow. This year Italy celebrates this great painter and architect, master of beauty and perfection. Raphael, son of the court painter Giovanni Santi, was born and trained in Urbino, a small, picturesque town
- [Words lead to art in Lake Lugano](https://newartexaminer.net/words-lead-to-art-in-lake-lugano/) - I was walking along Lake Lugano when two words on a sign caught my attention: Venice and Mušič. One reminds me of a magical city, the other intrigues me. I enter the doorway underneath these words and find myself in the rooms of a Foundation where a number of small paintings are on display: some
- [Brueghal the Elder: the family man](https://newartexaminer.net/brueghal-the-elder-the-family-man/) - This exhibition is fortunate in its location: the 19th-century italianate Palacio de Gaviria, which is at heart of the old Austrias neighbourhood in Madrid - the most historic part of the city, close to the famous Puerta del Sol and Plaza Mayor squares. I’m mentioning these surroundings because I think in the visual experience of
- [Saul Steinberg’s The Labyrinth](https://newartexaminer.net/saul-steinbergs-the-labyrinth/) - Among my parents’ art books was a big book of drawings I loved as a child and now have and love still: Saul Steinberg’s The Labyrinth. It has just been republished by the New York Review of Books. Saul Steinberg (1914-1999) was from a Romanian Jewish family. He studied architecture in Milan and in 1958
- [Vito, Video, and You](https://newartexaminer.net/vito-video-and-you/) - Vito Acconci is a name you should know. A pioneer of conceptual art, his career lasted over 50 years and encompassed poetry, video, performance, installation, design, and architecture. As a trailblazer of video art, during the 1960s and 1970s he used a new creative medium to produce unprecedented works. Acconci understood the one-on-one interaction of
- [‘The Man from Laramie’ (1955) directed by Anthony Mann](https://newartexaminer.net/the-man-from-laramie-1955-directed-by-anthony-mann/) - Which young woman wouldn’t like James Stewart to stroll into her store with a delivery in a small town where there’s no one to keep law and order and men have to be men in the archetypal glamorous fighting for honour and justice way that this hero embodies? The wide open country is a dangerous
- [Joker is number 9](https://newartexaminer.net/joker-is-number-9/) - Synopsis: Quentin Tarantino is one of my personal idols, but with his latest he let me down. The comix genre on the big screen wasn’t my cup of tea. To begin with I studied filmmaking at Harvard in the academic year 1994-95 under the tutelage of the renowned Yugoslav (quite an anachronism at the
- [News Flash](https://newartexaminer.net/news-flash/) - We are pleased to announce that Josephine Gardiner has become the new Devon and Cornwall Editor. 10/02/2020 Important message from our writer in Hong Kong: "Recently, I think you may heard that the Novel Coronavirus Infectious Disease is now seriously affecting Hong Kong. I had planned to visit some exhibitions and write a new review
- [Volume 34 no 3 January - February 2020](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-34-no-3-january-february-2020/) - Articles: The Art of Extinction Rebellion: Josephine Gardiner from the UK Rebellion in Hong Kong Art: Leung Suk Ching I Left my Heart in Leipzig: Viktor Witkowski, USA If it Works, don’t Fix it: Frances OIiver, UK Fervid Art from the Edge: Jane Addams Allen, New York Scouting the Blogs: Miklos Legrady, Toronto Brzezanska 's
- [Editorial: Volume 34 no 3 January - February 2020](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-34-no-3-january-february-2020/) - Jeff Koons is not a name to toy with. When he was asked to create a memorial to the victims of terrorism in Paris one may assume the French authorities had lost their minds asking an aesthetic dedicated to Disneyfying the cities of America, to suddenly find the soulfulness of tragedy within humanity and make it
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-22/) - Each issue the New Art Examiner will invite a well-known, or not so well-known, art world personality to write a speakeasy essay on a topic of interest. Richard Siegesmund is Professor of Art and Design Education at the School of Art, Northern Illinois University. He has served as a Fulbright Scholar to the National College
- [The Art of Extinction Rebellion](https://newartexaminer.net/the-art-of-extinction-rebellion/) - On August 11, 2019, on Porthmeor beach, St Ives, Cornwall, crowds of holidaymakers are doing what holidaymakers have always done on blue and sunny Sundays at the peak of the season. Unannounced and seemingly out of nowhere, lines of bizarre silent figures appear, each swathed from head to foot in flowing red draperies, their faces
- [Rebellion in Hong Kong Art - 不可抗力 - 香港刺點畫廊](https://newartexaminer.net/rebellion-in-hong-kong-art/) - Ho Siu Nam exhibited his latest photography series “The White of the Tree” (2018). The work records the face of the super typhoon Mangkhut that hit Hong Kong the same year. The strongest tropical cyclone since the 1980s caused extensive damage to Hong Kong. Thousands of tree branches broke and were uprooted. The artist captured
- [I Left My Heart in Leipzig](https://newartexaminer.net/i-left-my-heart-in-leipzig/) - After three months at an artist residency in Leipzig, I am now back in the Vermont woods. With temperatures plummeting, another storm now on the horizon, I keep thinking of my last days in Leipzig. Since I visited this city for the first time in the winter of 2018, I have fallen for it. There
- [If It Works, Don’t Fix It](https://newartexaminer.net/if-it-works-dont-fix-it/) - I love the Cornish Riviera Sleeper, the night train that runs six nights a week between Penzance and London Paddington Station. The beds are comfortable, the very pleasant lounge car offers free hot drinks and biscuits, the staff are uniformly helpful, kind, friendly and polite. I love this train so much that I was
- [Fervid Art from Life on the Edge (1986)](https://newartexaminer.net/fervid-art-from-life-on-the-edge-1986/) - SUMMARY: The Museum of Modern Art’s “Berlinart: 1961-1987” is marred both by serious omissions and the inclusion of too many artists. Nevertheless, the show is important and worth seeing because the art produced in that unique city reflects the role of political, social and cultural issues in the development of art in the 20th century.
- [Artemisia Gentileschi: the painting of the 17th century](https://newartexaminer.net/artemisia-gentileschi-the-painting-of-the-17th-century/) - At Christmas the Diocesan Museum of Milan traditionally exhibits a masterpiece, and this year the choice has fallen on The Adoration of the Magi by Artemisia Gentileschi. The painting comes from the Cathedral of Pozzuoli, near Naples. Born in Rome in 1593, the daughter of the painter Orazio, she became acquainted with the Rome art
- [Giorgio de Chirico](https://newartexaminer.net/giorgio-de-chirico/) - Among the many Italian artists who lived in the past century, the painter Giorgio de Chirico was undoubtedly one who always managed to stir up emotions and astonishment, as well as much criticism. In order to celebrate this 20th-century master, Palazzo Reale organized a retrospective exhibition which includes hundreds of artworks, including juvenile paintings, portraits
- [The Pre-Raphaelite Sisters](https://newartexaminer.net/the-pre-raphaelite-sisters/) - During a recent visit to the National Portrait Gallery in London I saw an exhibition showcasing 12 women who form part of what the organisers of this show call the hidden Pre-Raphaelite Movement. It is curated by Dr Jan Marsh, art historian and writer, who has a particular interest in 19th and early 20th-century painting
- [Aaron Broadhurst - Art at Redwing Gallery, Penzance - November 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/aaron-broadhurst-art-at-redwing-gallery-penzance-november-2019/) - These paintings are boldly outlined pop-art style images, easily recognisable with flat contrasting colours. They are unusual at the moment, especially in Penzance - not evoking the atmospheric landscape, not gestural or abstract, not lusciously painterly. There's a portrait of his wife Nicole, very like her despite its simplifications - arresting in its impact. There's
- [Protected by Alarms](https://newartexaminer.net/protected-by-alarms/) - Lesley Hale, who is involved with the project to invest in community housing in the building that is being used for this show, had the very bright idea of suggesting it to Joseph Clarke of Anima Mundi. He has taken the opportunity to show 19 of his stable of artists in this alternative place, a
- [Two houses; one built on sand](https://newartexaminer.net/two-houses-one-built-on-sand/) - At Penlee House an interesting show explained the founding of the Penwith Society and included documents such as one where Ben Nicholson defends modern art as a new language. Also included were the controversial minutes of the Penwith Society when three categories of art were instituted: traditional, abstract and craft. Centre stage as visitors entered was
- [India in Venice](https://newartexaminer.net/india-in-venice/) - Are all the senses actively taking part in the fruition of an aesthetic experience so that we can be said to ‘benefit’ from a work of art? The almost compulsive institutionalising of art objects into museums has weakened the cultural relationship between the viewer and the work of art: the eyes have become the privileged
- [4 into 1: Turner Prize](https://newartexaminer.net/4-into-1-turner-prize/) - The four artists had not met before June 2019, but then decided to declare themselves a collective and were allowed to accept the prize for the four of them. Tai Shane wore a pendant at the presentation that said 'Tories Out' just before the December election. The other three comprised Oscar Murillo, Helen Cammock and
- [White House Painter](https://newartexaminer.net/white-house-painter/) - REACH is the name of a $250m expansion to the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts that opened in Washington, D.C. in September 2019. Sprawling south from the stately main hall is a new campus focused around a series of minimal concrete pavilions that appear discrete at first but are connected underground. The
- [Wear your manifesto with pride](https://newartexaminer.net/wear-your-manifesto-with-pride/) - Gee whiz. There’s one manifesto that I’m a huge admirer of: Roxy Music’s album from 1979. An unenthused Greil Marcus found okay “moments” that are better than many records, but still found they “…add up to little” (he always liked Eno better.) I think it’s funky, sleek, listenable power pop. It has narrative peaks and
- [Trouble in Painter's Paradise](https://newartexaminer.net/trouble-in-painters-paradise/) - Few 20th-century painters carved a niche for their craft like Paul Gauguin. His portraiture is some of the most recognisable work in modern art. From 7th October 2019 to 26th January 2020, the National Gallery in London has on display a large representation of Gauguin’s short career as a painter featuring a collection of portraiture
- [Truman Capote](https://newartexaminer.net/truman-capote/) - Truman Capote has long been one of my most revered writers, so when we popped into a book shop in Chapel Street, Penzance and there, face on, in the middle of a display shelf, was Truman Capote’s book, Answered Prayers, I hesitated but moments. Answered Prayers is not a novel, it is three random chapters of
- [Brzeżańska’s Stories from Earth](https://newartexaminer.net/brzezanskas-stories-from-earth/) - Agnieszka Brzeżańska’s World National Park is akin to that first moment after waking from an intense dream. Brzeżańska’s collective works—paintings, drawings, collage, some sound and video—suggest a story of earthly, human existence through time. They are stories of mark-making, of record-keeping, of illustrating ideas and dreams and stories, both real and invented. The first room
- [Elkins on Art Criticism](https://newartexaminer.net/elkins-on-art-criticism/) - How do we judge art and what is the role of the art critic? This article compares James Elkins’ (2003) views on art criticism, with those of others and my own. I am an amateur collector and a psychologist. James Elkins (2003) claims that art criticism is produced and ignored in equal measure. It is
- [Volume 34 no 3 January - February 2020: Letters](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-34-no-3-january-february-2020-letters/) - Editorial 33.6 Dear Editor, Are you suggesting that American philosophers no longer exist? What about David Abram, philosopher, ecologist and performance artist? Marilyn McCord Adams, who recently died? Owen Flanagan with his work on the philosophy of the mind? David Carrier, American philosopher and also art critic? Have you heard of Professor Michael Slote, professor
- [The Abuse of Language in Art](https://newartexaminer.net/the-rape-of-words-in-art/) - Darren Jones A picture is not worth a thousand words. Nor do actions speak louder than words. Words are actions. To form a word—whether written or spoken—involves muscle, movement and energy. A word is the definition of an action. Words are the most accessible and precious tool that humankind has. Everyone has equal access to
- [A Fraught Biennial: The Whitney Museum of Some American Art](https://newartexaminer.net/is-it-time-to-end-the-whitney-biennial/) - A month before the 2019 Whitney Biennial had concluded, the museum announced its curators for the 2021 Biennial. That was a well-oiled machine grinding into action, but it snatched any remaining thunder from this year’s Biennial which was already limping to a miserable end after being hijacked by protestors and artists demonstrating against one of
- [Volume 34 no.2 November/December 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-34-no-2-november-december-2019/) - In this issue: Speakeasy with Annie Markovich Lynda Green on appreciating Edward Hopper Jane Addams Allen and Derek Guthrie from Chicago Tribune on Edward Hopper's legacy Al Jirikowic, Washington D.C. Editor, looking at Edward Hopper Margaret Lanterman and Phillip Barcio review Expo Chicago 2019 The Legacy of Apathy - a talk given by Derek Guthrie
- [Editorial Volume 34 no.2 November/December 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-34-no-2-november-december-2019/) - Apathy Are you one of the many visitors on our planet who suffers from apathy, without even knowing what this popular malady is? Do you drag yourself around, day after day, going to bed fighting sleepless nights, while searching for meaning in your life? Sounds like something out of the preacher on horseback’s message in
- [Speakeasy Volume 34 no.2 November/December 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-volume-34-no-2-november-december-2019/) - Why Speakeasy? Believe it or not, there was space for a new feature in the early days of the NAE. Jane Allen & Derek Guthrie had the idea to open up the pages to different voices of the artworld, preferably unknown and known personalities. Jane asked me for a suggestion. We had a brainstorm
- [Living with Hopper](https://newartexaminer.net/living-with-hopper/) - Edward Hopper has been one of my favourite artists since I started taking an interest in art. Along the wall leading to the cafeteria at school, we had a frieze of Seurat’s pointillist painting, ‘A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. Queuing for lunch I lazily examined it and, knowing nothing of
- [Two Exhibits Tied to Tradition](https://newartexaminer.net/two-exhibits-tied-to-tradition/) - Chicago Tribune: Sunday 3rd December 1972 Jane Addams Allen & Derek Guthrie were the art correspondents for the Chicago Tribune for nearly two years. It was only when one of their articles was pulled from the galleys that Jane suggested they publish themselves and start the New Art Examiner in 1974. Their thirst for freedom
- [A slight look into Edward Hopper](https://newartexaminer.net/a-slight-look-into-edward-hopper/) - I think we now have a certain advantage of “time” in respect to our viewing of Edward Hopper’s work. It is how he came into his “own” that I wish to discuss. I am taken by the life of Hopper’s “own”, a “resplendent” throughout his life’s work. Hopper is usually discussed for his take on
- [Underlying Questions Abound at Chicago Art Expo 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/underlying-questions-abound-at-chicago-art-expo-2019/) - Each fall we look forward to Art Expo, and every time it has a new personality. This is what you would expect, as one of the prominent purposes of art is to reflect the current cultural milieu. This makes attendance at the Expo all the more interesting and enjoyable. Last year ‘social conscience’ and ‘interactive
- [EXPO Chicago 2019 Sets the Bar for Autumn Fair Season](https://newartexaminer.net/expo-chicago-2019-sets-the-bar-for-autumn-fair-season/) - EXPO Chicago Director Tony Karman has finally made the leap from organizing a Chicago art fair to facilitating a Chicago Art Week. This year, his main event coincided with the first ever NADA (New Art Dealers Alliance) fair in Chicago, along with dozens of museum and gallery openings around the city and the opening
- [The Legacy of Apathy–Derek Guthrie in DC](https://newartexaminer.net/the-legacy-of-apathy-derek-guthrie-in-dc/) - The New Art Examiner is difficult to explain, as it does not fit into convenient categories. I refer to our Statement of Purpose, printed in every issue since the first one. These profound words were written by a forgotten hero, Edward Fry, the Curator and Art Historian who defied the Trustees of the Guggenheim Museum
- ['Time' to Add a Little 'Life' To Art](https://newartexaminer.net/5759-2/) - In 1936 Henry Luce kick-started the field of photojournalism with the launch of Life Magazine, which by 1940 became the leading magazine in the nation. Those same few years saw another visual revolution that rankled Luce. With the leading lights of European art arriving in the US to escape the growing influence of fascism in
- [A Resounding Beast at the Prado](https://newartexaminer.net/a-resounding-beast-at-the-prado/) - When I entered the Prado Museum to see the contemporary Giacometti exhibition, I felt echoes of the exhibition in Paris, the Autumn Salle 1905, that launched the Fauvist movement, nicknamed by art critic Louis Vauxcelles as “Donatello among the beasts”- referring to those new bold paintings full of challenging colours placed near a classical Renaissance
- [Otobong Nkanga and Mikhail Karikis at Tate St Ives](https://newartexaminer.net/otobong-nkanga-and-mikhail-karikis-at-tate-st-ives/) - My heart sinks as I walk into the preview. It’s a big room and the work doesn’t really visually dominate it. It reminds me of a town planning exhibit. Lots of photos, information, diagrams. The themes are very worthy, mining, colonialism, exploitation. There are some impressive tapestries in glowing colours with some glitter woven in
- [The Comic Abyss](https://newartexaminer.net/the-comic-abyss/) - I was invited to the live screening of Phoebe Waller-Bridges’ one woman show, ‘Fleabag’ (loosely based on her series). I knew nothing of Waller-Bridges, except that she wrote the brilliant script for the first series of ‘Killing Eve’. So I knew she could write…. I kept telling myself this through the virtual monologue, delivered in
- [Aliens in our Own World](https://newartexaminer.net/aliens-in-our-own-world/) - Walking inside the casual maze of rooms, each hosting an individual sound and video work, separated by a double layer of plastic noise-reduction curtains and heavy, black velvet fabric; the body becomes fiercely present. The works here are framed thematically by the concept of alienation—contemporary discord between the body and mind and our human needs not
- [Flower Power is the Push to Procreate Beauty](https://newartexaminer.net/flower-power-is-the-push-to-procreate-beauty/) - This exhibition was organized by the Archives of American Art in collaboration with Smithsonian Gardens. The labels were written by archivists, horticulturalists, artists, curators, educators and gardeners to articulate the many facets of flora and adds to the richness of interpretation found here. The exhibition is in a small room by comparison to the rest
- [The Adaptive Artist - Lee Krasner](https://newartexaminer.net/the-adaptive-artist-lee-krasner/) - “At seventy-five, Krasner is finally getting her due.” These words were written by art critic Robert Hughes in his 1990 Times article about Krasner’s first retrospective at the Houston Museum of Fine Arts. Krasner had been a practising artist since the 1930s, so why weren’t more art institutions jumping at the opportunity to display the
- [EXCLUSIVE DISASTERS – A Website](https://newartexaminer.net/exclusive-disasters-a-website/) - Author’s note for EXCLUSIVE DISASTERS My late husband remarked, already decades ago, that you can no longer write satire as humanity satirizes itself. Still, the temptation remains to comment on our increasingly degenerate and chaotic culture in that particular form, and though nothing could top the truth of Pendery Weekes’ article on embryo jewellery I
- [Reale Light, Milan](https://newartexaminer.net/reale-light-milan/) - From July 29th to September 29th, the Palazzo Reale has been hosting the “Light Project” exhibition, which is the very first retrospective dedicated to Nanda Vigo, a multifaceted artist and architect from Milan, who was involved in multiple projects ranging from design to architecture and art. She has exhibited her work across the world, from
- [Trash People in Matera](https://newartexaminer.net/trash-people-in-matera/) - In the evening, Matera is like a Christmas creche; when the sun sets and many small lights come on in the “Sassi”, cave dwellings that have existed since the Paleolithic period. The effect is striking. Matera, in the Basilicata region (proclaimed European Capital of Culture for 2019) has been renewed today. It was included
- [Honeyland – Documentary](https://newartexaminer.net/honeyland-documentary/) - It’s rare for me to leave a cinema in stunned silence. But “Honeyland”, a documentary by two Macedonian film-makers that has garnered multiple Sundance awards left me muted by a cocktail of overwhelming emotions - crippling melancholy at the stark hardship of some people’s lives: profound awe at the sheer beauty of the images, and
- [Letters](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-5/) - Museum of Modern Women I completely agree with you Kathryn about “the complex and interconnected narrative of female experience”, which by far surpasses the superficial male experience. In that “these bodies are also full of desire, power, and humanity” is what our fundamental core message is here, something all women can well relate to. I
- [Looking Beyond the Contemporary Artist](https://newartexaminer.net/looking-beyond-the-contemporary-artist/) - Country lane hedges, cut and hewn by flailing machines, are ignorantly denuded of their rich habitat. A mis-managed rationalization carved through the remnants of nature. We disregard the natural abundance that is given without financial remuneration? What are we afraid of? Is it that we want a more convenient society that in smoothing (h)edges allows
- [Imagined Emptiness](https://newartexaminer.net/imagined-emptiness/) - unsignificantly off the coast there wasa splash quite unnoticed this was Icarus drowning (William Carlos Williams, from Landscape With the Fall of Icarus) The presence of an abandoned pier and oil rigs on the way to the gravel parking lot renders the sudden starkness of the sight all the more striking. Strangely
- [Lost in Translation](https://newartexaminer.net/lost-in-translation/) - 7 August Urbania’s cultural roots are deep. The Ducal Palace was built as a summer retreat for the Duke of Urbino, Federico da Montefeltro, in the late 1400’s. The Duke of Urbino brought art and culture to Urbania, and this small medieval town remains a centre for the production of desirable ceramics. Sabina Trifilo’s apartment
- [Matthias Grünewald’s Pain and Suffering - 德國文藝復興畫家 - 格呂內瓦爾德: 殘酷背後的救贖](https://newartexaminer.net/matthias-grunewalds-pain-and-suffering-德國文藝復興畫家-格呂內瓦爾德-殘酷/) - German Painter Matthias Grünewald (1470-1528) is one of the most amazing German Renaissance painters. He is very studious and well-informed and always shows compassion for others. At the rise of the Reformation Movement people were deeply dissatisfied with the poverty of their lives and the restraint of religion. He was concerned about the people and
- [Volume 34 no 1 September - October 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-34-no-1-september-october-2019/) - In this issue: Features: Museum of Modern Women - Kathryn Zazenski from Warsaw Oh Chicago, my Chicago - Maggie Leininger on Comfort Station After the Art Fair Bubble Bursts - Phil Barcio on the Chicago Expo Artist Miklos Legrady on Art Education Belated Tribute to a Gifted Painter - Jane Addams Allen on French Impressionist
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-21/) - Most of my life was spent in Italy surrounded by Giotto’s frescoes, paintings by Piero della Francesco, Caravaggio, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, archaeological ruins and works by numerous modern to contemporary artists such as Boccioni, Balla, Severini, Morandi, De Chirico, Schifano, Burri, Guttuso, and countless others. This can’t but influence someone’s cultural makeup and imaginarium. Italy
- [Editorial Volume 33 no 6 September - October 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-33-no-6-september-october-2019/) - One can fall in love with a magazine. With a passion for its attempt to trust its writers, edit lightly to allow for varied opinion, and its invaluable outlook inherited from the twentieth century pragmatic philosophers in Chicago. A time when America had philosophers everyone with an interest in American power and how it would
- [Museum of Modern Women](https://newartexaminer.net/museum-of-modern-women/) - PAINT, ALSO KNOWN AS BLOOD: WOMEN, AFFECT, AND DESIRE IN CONTEMPORARY PAINTING - Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw 7 June - 11 August, 2019 It’s t he pleasures of painting. The poses of pleasures. The privilege of being looked at. The ploys of seduction. The light of the night. It’s nothing personal. It’s plain delight
- [O Chicago, My Chicago](https://newartexaminer.net/o-chicago-my-chicago/) - Chicago, like most large cities, is a melting pot of cultures, languages, and rhythms. It is not a city necessarily known for the elite galleries and star-studded cultural events of New York or Los Angeles. The glamour festooned events commonly associated with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, for example, are not a part of the
- [After the Bubble Bursts](https://newartexaminer.net/after-the-bubble-bursts/) - Chicago EXPOses itself Google the phrase “too many art fairs,” and you’ll see a consensus is building about an impending “art fair bubble.” Dozens of recent articles contemplate the glut, not just in art magazines, but in publications like Forbes, Bloomberg, The Economist, and The New York Times. When Artnet News published “the Definitive Calendar
- [Belated Tribute to a Gifted Painter](https://newartexaminer.net/belated-tribute-to-a-gifted-painter/) - SUMMARY: Long neglected, French Impressionist Berthe Morisot finally is getting recognition in a touring retrospective, now in Washington. The exhibition traces the painter’s development as an Impressionist and includes less successful experiments with the dissolution of form. An innate sadness permeates much of her work, which Is outstanding for its exploration of light, color and
- [Joseph Beuys](https://newartexaminer.net/joseph-beuys/) - Joseph Beuys, April 7, 2018 – July 2020, Art Gallery of Ontario “Such retroactive and remote anointing is far more difficult in the context of contemporary art, which for the past century has often been the product of speech acts. I am an artist because I say I am an artist. This is art because
- [The Whitney's Collection: Selections from 1900 – 1965](https://newartexaminer.net/the-whitneys-collection-selections-from-1900-1965/) - Five years in, The Whitney has become thoroughly at home in its spacious new digs and primo downtown locale. This is the second substantial collection re-installation since the new building’s inaugural extravaganza. This rotation and attention to expanded contexts for a few renowned works that have remained on view in shifted juxtapositions is notable. The
- [A Ferro e Fuoco](https://newartexaminer.net/a-ferro-e-fuoco/) - Retrospective dedicated to Jannis Kounellis, Ca 'Corner della Regina, Venice, 11 May / 24 November 2019, curated by Germano Celant As soon as I entered the vast hall on the first noble floor of Ca 'Corner della Regina (headquarters of the Fondazione Prada Venezia), I was struck by an array of hats, shoes, dark coats:
- [Magnum's First](https://newartexaminer.net/magnums-first/) - Diocesan Museum, Milan, May 9 - October 6, 2019 It's truly inexplicable how the first exhibition of the Magnum photo agency, which was presented in five German cities between 1956 and 1957, has been forgotten for fifty years. The artwork was found by sheer chance only in 2006 inside two boxes which contained, in addition
- [Genderless Faces](https://newartexaminer.net/genderless-faces/) - ‘Themself’, new portrait paintings by Sarah Ball, at Anima Mundi, St Ives, 26 July – 6 Sept 2019 Entering the gallery and confronted immediately by the arresting portrait of ‘Izzy’, I was half-prepared for a dazzling exhibition of beautifully-painted portraits, accompanied by intriguing back stories. Sarah Ball’s practice relies on gathering found images from
- [Unusual Forms](https://newartexaminer.net/unusual-forms/) - Leach Pottery and Anima Mundi in St Ives, 29 June - 11 August 2019 Andile Dyalvane has been in residence at the Leach Pottery in St.Ives,, Cornwall, UK and his work is seen there before he returns to South Africa. He was at the private view, resplendent and expansive, shaking hands with everyone and wearing
- [Drawn to Life](https://newartexaminer.net/drawn-to-life/) - Drawn to Life An Exhibition of a Life Drawing Class - Redwing Gallery, Penzance 29 May - 12 June, 2019 It’s no secret that behind every successful artist there are hours of hidden practice and bins full of frustrations that never see the light of day. I reluctantly climbed the stairs to the Drawn to
- [Domestic Bliss](https://newartexaminer.net/domestic-bliss/) - Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, 8 March - 31 December 2020 When did the curator’s imperatives gain supremacy over the artist’s agenda? In the case of Glasgow’s Gallery of Modern Art, the current exhibition ‘Domestic Bliss’ is the brainchild of a creative in-house curator with no budget. Katie Bruce raids the gallery’s collection to produce
- [Lo Fi Glamour](https://newartexaminer.net/lo-fi-glamour/) - My wife and I are driving down Yonge Street on a midsummer’s trip to Toronto in our almond colored, Honda Civic hatchback (our first vehicle) with the windows rolled down blasting out Kool Thing on our cassette deck as we meander to our campsite on the edge of town. The blood surging through my
- [Royal Passes](https://newartexaminer.net/royal-passes/) - The majority of artists in the exhibition ‘City Prince/sses work out of Tehran, Mexico City, Manila, Lagos or Dhaka. Aside from a few exceptions, Western cultural capitals like Berlin, Paris, London or New York are only mentioned in passing. This is refreshing, since the geographic diversity of artists exhibiting in major contemporary institutions in Europe
- [Unpeopled Paintings](https://newartexaminer.net/unpeopled-paintings/) - In most of Harald Sohlberg’s paintings there are no people. It took me a while to realise this, because signs of recent human domestic activity are everywhere – modest white houses glimpsed through encroaching forest, telegraph poles on empty roads, tables set for summer drinks on lakeside balconies, wintry streets of rough wooden buildings, defiant
- [Joining Nature’s GANG](https://newartexaminer.net/joining-natures-gang/) - Studio Gang is a Chicago architecture firm notable for their practice of drawing inspiration from a site’s natural context, which departed from a previous trend to drop a building into a site unaware of that context. The firm’s founder and principal architect, Jeanne Gang, appeared on Time magazine’s list of 100 most influential people for 2019 and previously
- [Letters](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-4/) - Open Letter to James Green and the Newlyn Orion Trustees Thank you, Sian, for your answer, as once again we receive a refusal from Newlyn Art Gallery in Newlyn, Cornwall in the UK, to stock the New Art Examiner. I consider this unwise and inappropriate but adequate considering the status of the Newlyn Orion and
- [Volume 33 no 6 July / August 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-33-no-6-july-august-2019/) - Ken Turner on New Ways Of Seeing, evaluating John Berger Daniel Nanavati on the 58th Venice Biennale Norbert Marszalek interviews Derek Guthrie Hybrid Sculpture, Disciplined Form by Jane Addams Allen Hockney in Washington - Annie Markovich and Derek Guthrie Cuban art today – Lily Lihting Dodin in Venice – Victoria Howard Sokurov and Rembrandt in
- [Frank Bowling, Tate Britain](https://newartexaminer.net/frank-bowling-tate-britain/) - At 24, Bowling wanted to “paint his people”. However painting people was not his forte. Whilst the curves of the room in “Mirror” 1966 are superb in their perspective and placing, the Baconesque figures descending the spiral staircase are poorly drawn. He copies a photograph of a Mary Quant attired model in “Cover Girl”, but
- [Da Vinci's Visions](https://newartexaminer.net/da-vincis-visions/) - The active mind explores what is unknown and undecided and is prepared to abandon what it was taught as fact in light of new knowledge. The beauty of the human mind is its logic which mirrors the logic of nature, what we now call the physical laws of nature. Da Vinci investigated everything. Looked for
- [荷兰前卫服装设计师给大溪流美术馆带来一场科技的震撼 文: 李立婷](https://newartexaminer.net/荷兰前卫服装设计师给大溪流美术馆带来一场科技/) - 当我们想到科技的创新，可能会立刻联想到电脑，汽车，手机等智能产品，结果我发现原来服装设计展览也可以给人们带来科技的震撼。33岁的荷兰服装设计师 Iris Van Herpen (爱丽丝.凡.哈本) 就是这么一个有才华的艺术家， 将服装，雕刻，和科技研究连接一身，展现在大溪流美术馆，这个美术馆位于美国密西根州的第2大城的大溪流市 (Grand Rapids, Michigan)
- [Cultural Conspiracy](https://newartexaminer.net/cultural-conspiracy/) - “The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling power of our country… It is they who pull the wires which control the public mind.” Edward
- [History According to  Daad](https://newartexaminer.net/history-according-to-daad/) - Deep Sounding – History as Multiple Narratives is a group exhibition centered on the subjectivity and magnitude (or lack thereof) of historical narrative. In German, the word geschichte represents both ‘history’ and ‘story,’ the point on which the exhibition text is focused. There’s a push and pull here between works that are driven aesthetically and
- [Venice 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/venice-2019/) - The 2019 Biennale of Venice, with its successful and less successful artworks, undoubtedly achieved its aim of involving viewers by provoking our senses, challenging us with difficult installations, testing our intelligence and sometimes even bringing patience to a limit. In the French, Venetian, Philippines and Italian pavilions, to name just a few, one feels disoriented.
- [BA Show Falmouth, May 2019](https://newartexaminer.net/ba-show-falmouth-may-2019/) - There is work from about 86 students in the catalogue, which is without page numbers. I take an hour and a half to see it plus a performance after lunch. No prices are next to the works. I start to notice what there isn't; no overt politics, scarcely a mention of feminism, no climate change,
- [Not There Yet](https://newartexaminer.net/not-there-yet/) - ‘Cinema Between Two Worlds’ is a painting about six feet high, the subject being some people in a cinema, although the film screen looks more like a painting or a shot of a painting in the film. It is painted fluently, the seats look plush, it is a cinema with small tables between seats, and
- [The Genius of Pablo Picasso](https://newartexaminer.net/the-genius-of-pablo-picasso/) - Jane Allen and Derek Guthrie Chicago Tribune 15th April 1973, written overnight on the news of Picasso’s death. In Picasso the 20th century has lost one of its most cherished symbols of freedom. He proved the exception to every rule, and we thought until a short week ago that he might even elude the law
- [Impression of a Boot](https://newartexaminer.net/impression-of-a-boot/) - Cherry red leather, seventeen holes, mismatched laces (one silk, one cotton) and many decades before Dr Marten’s became the punk sole of choice. Broadly, the exhibition retells the history of an artist, who has become an icon, but behind the act of presentation (slightly too much ‘ambience’ for me) the objects disclosed something profoundly humane.
- [Wings to fly](https://newartexaminer.net/wings-to-fly/) - I would have liked to write this review without knowing so much about Kahlo. she came from a well-off family, popular and involved in the Mexican society of the time, despite the many upheavals of the Revolution. She was the much beloved daughter of a renowned photographer of German descent who, despite her gender
- [In Conversation with curator Circe Henestrosa](https://newartexaminer.net/circe-henestrosa-co-curator-of-londons-victoria-alberts-exhibition-making-herself-up-talks-to-our-european-editor-daniel-nanavati-on-13th-june-2018/) - DN: I would like to talk about her influences. Now we can't differentiate her from Mexico obviously, but do you see a lot of Freud coming through from her surrealist idea? Breton said she was a natural surrealist. CH: Yes, her surrealism ... she kind of didn't align with the idea because she didn't feel
- [Dreaming with the Ancestors. Mexican Archaeology in Frida Kahlo’s Art and Life](https://newartexaminer.net/dreaming-with-the-ancestors-mexican-archaeology-in-frida-kahlos-art-and-life/) - In the collateral exhibition “The dream of the Ancestors” at the MUDEC - Museo delle Culture in Milan the artistic imagination of Frida Kahlo is revived through sculptures, moulded figurines and ceramics from the pre-Columbian civilization of Mexico. In search of her roots and the roots of her art in the Mesoamerican indigenous culture, the
- [The Pains of Young Frida](https://newartexaminer.net/the-pains-of-young-frida/) - From the Casa Azul in Mexico City, where the artist Frida Kahlo lived for many years with her husband Diego Rivera, new documents have recently emerged that had been hidden away for decades in cases and trunks. The discovery of this archive material sheds new light on the painter and has inspired, among other things,
- [Frida Kahlo Self Made Feminist](https://newartexaminer.net/frida-kahlo-self-made-feminist/) - The heroine of women painters, who championed the use of folk symbols to illustrate and elucidate self, surrealist painter, and merger of social realism and confrontational renaissance portraiture, is highly relevant to the present art scene. In painted self-portraits she surrounds her image with symbols of Mexican folklore and culture as in My Grandparents, My
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-17/) - The cod often casts an eye on our behaviour with our propensity to take paths that lead to misery, both politically and aesthetically. So, in this instance, I feel that it’s my duty to let the cod speak directly. “To put it bluntly, how is it that you haven’t sorted out the idea of your
- [Volume 32 no 6 July / August 2018 Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-32-no-6-july-august-2018-editorial/) - Annie Markovich, Assistant Publisher Cages, prisons and walls are odd themes for an editorial. Each possesses subtle differences in meaning and while many innocent people are behind bars, there are many more in the wide world who have made their own “big houses.” The “big house” is hood (ghetto) slang for prison. In the
- [Letters Volume 32 no 6 July/August 2018](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-volume-32-no-6-july-august-2018/) - Still a No-fly Zone (March/April 2018) Francis, This beautiful article shouldn’t stop here; it needs to be read by a larger public, not just by 12,000 paltry readers a month that you have here. All New Yorkers, all Americans and people overseas should be able to read what Frances Oliver wrote, as everyone was touched
- [Why The Whitney Museum’s Summer of Wojnarowicz is a Winter of Discontent](https://newartexaminer.net/the-whitney-museums-summer-of-wojnarowicz-is-a-winter-of-discontent/) - Perhaps it was inevitable that the Whitney Museum’s David Wojnarowicz retrospective "History Keeps me Awake at Night" would be underwhelming, despite comprising over a hundred and forty pieces. Over ten years of consideration, months of marketing, concurrent exhibitions (at P.P.O.W. and Mamdouha Bobst galleries), and much gilded coverage, have built an epic situation. This all
- [The Joy of Painting](https://newartexaminer.net/the-joy-of-painting/) - Not many art lovers know Darby Bannard, even though he lived a long time and accomplished many things. In the late fifties, Bannard and his friend Frank Stella inspired themselves to make pictures that were very direct, to the point not many recognized them as “paintings” until almost 10 years later. In a letter to
- [Volume 32 no 5 May / June 2018](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-32-no-5-may-june-2018/) - The cultural context and significance of ‘Black Panther Theology in art Life in the Margins, meeting Anna Zissermann An Appreciation of Franz Marc Washington DC news Anne Truitt: an act of resistance A home for artists in Venice Master of the Line, Toulouse Lautrec by Jane Addams Allen The shop window renaissance in Italy Reviews from: Milan,
- [Camille Paglia’s Glittering Images](https://newartexaminer.net/camille-paglias-glittering-images/) - At a first glance Glittering Images, starting from Egyptian art, going on through the centuries with major focus on twentieth century art and George Lucas’ Star War’s appears to be a useful introduction and overview to art history for first year university students. The book is printed on high quality art paper in an elegant
- [The Emotions of Colour An Appreciation of Franz Marc](https://newartexaminer.net/the-emotions-of-colour-an-appreciation-of-franz-marc/) - Franz Marc was born in Munich in 1880. He died near Verdun in 1916, legally murdered in what was called The War To End All Wars. A war which slaughtered over a million men. Marc’s father was a representational animal painter. His son took the language of animal imagery to new symbolic heights. In 1901,
- [Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings](https://newartexaminer.net/virginia-woolf-an-exhibition-inspired-by-her-writings/) - Tate St.Ives until April 29th 2018. Curated by Laura Smith. As I walk around enjoying a lot of the paintings, it slowly dawns on me that they are all by women. As it’s so rare to encounter over 200 works by women in a space and none by men, I wonder why the Tate does
- [Tim Shaw and the Side of Life I Don’t Want to See](https://newartexaminer.net/tim-shaw-and-the-side-of-life-i-dont-want-to-see/) - Tim Shaw, “What Remains” at The Exchange Gallery, Penzance (10 Feb-12 May 2018) I was left shell-shocked, speechless for a few minutes; I felt blocked. This was the powerful and unexpected effect that Tim Shaw’s exhibition had on me at The Exchange in Penzance. No evading reality here, no joy or soothing landscapes. What a
- ['Hummadruz', Newlyn Art Gallery, March 3 to June 2nd 2018](https://newartexaminer.net/hummadruz-newlyn-art-gallery-march-3-to-june-2nd-2018/) - Curated by Field Notes - Cat Bagg and Rosie Thomson-Glover. ‘Hummadruz’ refers to a humming sound heard by some visitors to ancient sites such as reported by Andy Norfolk in the periodical Meyli Mamvro as he and two friends experienced it at Zennor quoit, not far from Newlyn Gallery. My companion reacted to this by
- [Cézanne and the End of Art](https://newartexaminer.net/cezanne-and-the-end-of-art/) - Ordinarily one does not finish a book because it is good. Usually, one tires with the monotony of its language and casts it mightily aside. This is not the case with Donald Kuspit’s The End of Art. I am taking a break from it because it is too good, it scares me. The book is
- [A Home for Artists – The Foundations in Venice](https://newartexaminer.net/a-home-for-artists-the-foundations-in-venice/) - Nobel Prize winner Iosif Brodsky of Venice , “This city improves the appearance of time, embellishes the future and reveals in its palaces the most beautiful design that time has left on earth” (Watermark or Fondamenta degli incurabili in Italian). But, if the beauty of its buildings is in some ways unsustainable for the
- [Anne Truitt - An Act of Resistance](https://newartexaminer.net/anne-truitt-an-act-of-resistance/) - The mid 1960s saw an array of overlapping art styles vying for dominance, from Warhol’s Pop icons to Lewitt’s Conceptual work and Judd’s cool Minimalism. Exhibitions attempting to define these movements were often organized by their canonical male figures and even institutional surveys that aimed at enshrining the avant-garde rarely included women. With few exceptions,
- [The Shop Window Renaissance](https://newartexaminer.net/the-shop-window-renaissance/) - How is it that the Italian shop windows are amongst the most beautiful in the world? A less important aspect of the shopping experience in some countries, in Italy window design is an essential element of the merchandising package, just like the wrappings of a present or the bag that is used to carry away
- [Jackie Saccoccio “Spectral Hole” Solo Exhibition](https://newartexaminer.net/jackie-saccoccio-spectral-hole-solo-exhibition/) - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL December 15 -January 27 I first encountered Jackie Saccoccio’s work in person at Corbett vs Dempsey in Chicago. I had stumbled upon her online a few years earlier and was instantly hooked. The vibrant colors, the all over painting technique that seemed to lead the eye on a very deliberate
- [Master of the Line](https://newartexaminer.net/master-of-the-line/) - SUMMARY: A new exhibition of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec’s works at New York’s Museum of Modern Art makes it clear that for Lautrec, the color lithograph, not the painting, was the ultimate work of art. The “how" of the artist’s intense printmaking method is explained by a series of exhibits showing his step-by-step process from rapid
- [Life in the Margins](https://newartexaminer.net/life-in-the-margins/) - It’s time that the extraordinary life and work of Anya Berger was acknowledged First published 27 February on http://frieze.com Anna Zissermann was born in Manchuria in 1923. In different countries, under different names, she shaped the horizons of the English-speaking left on issues of race, gender and class, and it’s time this was recognized.
- [Theology in Art](https://newartexaminer.net/theology-in-art/) - The Old Gods “These two disciplines used to be inextricably connected … Artists were theologians, students of God who sought to convey his beauty and truth using material means ...” (Victoria Emily Jones) “Throughout history, the arts in all their forms have mirrored cultural change and even injected prophetic voices into our theological understanding.” (The
- [The Cultural Context and Significance of the movie ‘Black Panther’](https://newartexaminer.net/the-cultural-context-and-significance-of-the-movie-black-panther/) - You know the drill. You buy the tickets, get the popcorn, settle into your seat, resist the previews — you’re seeing a Hollywood movie. But something interesting has been happening in Hollywood over the past 10 years or so. In the wake of cinematic aberrations such as The Help and The Longest Yard, a new
- [Speakeasy volume 32 no 5 May / June 2018](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-volume-32-no-5-may-june-2018/) - Seize The Means Of Creating Culture Former Green Party Vice Presidential candidate Ajamu Baraka recently made the observation, "From Wakanda with its 'Black identity extremist' and nice CIA agent to Hoover's FBI as noble and honest institution, the 'American' people are propagandized to their very bones. Critical thinking is replaced by fear, mindlessness and the
- [volume 32 no 5 May / June 2018 Letters](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-32-no-5-may-june-2018-letters/) - Perplexed Poetry Editor, Call me the Devil’s Advocate I am perplexed. I had understood that the NAE was dedicated to opposing all that is deliberately misleading in the Art world and fighting against all that is overblown and pretentious and yet, in this recent issue, my senses are assaulted by an article, with poem attached,
- [Editorial Volume 32 no. 5 May June 2018](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-32-no-5-may-june-2018/) - I write from Washington DC as the New Art Examiner opens a new chapter in the most powerful city in the world. Unlike most capital cities, Washington DC does not have a lively art scene. Political considerations dominate. American politics is in turmoil and the news media every day is breaking news of the deepening
- [Volume 32 no 4 March / April 2018](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-32-no-4-march-april-2018/) - Dreams Denied,Defied and now Defined - striving for fame by European editor Daniel Nanavati Interview with Jo Clarke about curating in St Ives in the past 20 years, with Derek Guthrie Sol LeWitt Demystified by Toronto editor Miklos Legrady Jane Addams Allen on Georgia O'Keeffe in 1986 Carol Levin’s Battleground Horse by Carol M Dupré
- [Natalia Hamon ‘Bridges’ at Daisy Laing in Penzance](https://newartexaminer.net/natalia-hamon-bridges-at-daisy-laing-in-penzance/) - This exhibition was in sharp contrast to many such exhibitions held in Metropolitan galleries, where an artificial atmosphere and air of pseudo-sophistication of aesthetic interest and social prestige, often prevails. This small exhibition, in Penzance in southwest Cornwall, of ten paintings of bridges on paper in an upstairs gallery, was vital and alive. The gallery
- [Art Extravaganza](https://newartexaminer.net/art-extravaganza/) - THE ACORN Theatre in Penzance recently hosted arts magazine the New Art Examiner’s Art Extravaganza. A satirical piece of theatre and overt, hard hitting protest on the culture of art politics and its corrupt influence on the Cornwall art scene, particularly in Newlyn, Penzance and St Ives. The Acorn Theatre being once a Methodist Church
- [ArtWallop](https://newartexaminer.net/artwallop/) - A beverage that is highly sought after and extremely expensive? A derogatory term for said beverage? Being beaten on the bottom with a canvas? You choose. No, I mean it, you really do choose. In this most eccentric of exhibitions now showing at The New, New Gallery, St Ives, you can, quite literally choose your
- [Revoliutsiia! Demonstratsiia! Soviet Art Put to the Test](https://newartexaminer.net/revoliutsiia-demonstratsiia-soviet-art-put-to-the-test/) - The Art Institute of Chicago’s grand celebration of pre-Stalinist Soviet art, kicked off this past autumn, 100 years -- almost to the day-- after the October Revolution of 1917. Touted as the largest exhibit to commemorate the centennial of the founding of the Soviet state, this beautifully mounted exhibit sprawled throughout the museum’s Regenstein Hall
- [Open Call For Idiots](https://newartexaminer.net/open-call-for-idiots/) - It does not happen all the time but it should not happen at all. It is despicable. It is called plagiarism and should be considered a prisonable offence. I know that almost everything that we can imagine has been done before in one way or another and that it is very difficult to do something
- [Michael Ryan at Marx Cafe](https://newartexaminer.net/michael-ryan-at-marx-cafe/) - Michael Ryan’s photos are almost too private to be seen. However, luckily for us, they were in a recent exhibition of his work in Marx Tavern in Mount Pleasant in Washington D.C. Ryan’s work is very inside himself, in a dark room. He makes photos rather than shooting them. It is almost as each picture
- [Souvenir of Luca Vitone](https://newartexaminer.net/souvenir-of-luca-vitone/) - Entering the PAC of Milan (Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea) for the retrospective of Luca Vitone (the Genoese artist, who lives in Berlin, has exhibited in various international galleries and at the Venice Biennale), the visitor is immediately struck by a kind of commemorative plaque of an eye inside a triangle. The title, “Souvenir d’Italie (Lapide)”, ironically represents
- [Still A No-Fly Zone](https://newartexaminer.net/still-a-no-fly-zone/) - Back in New York for a visit after four years away, I was taken to see the Oculus, Ground Zero's most distinctive new building. The World Trade Center transportation hub designed by Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. This colossal building is a colossal waste of a colossal sum of money; four billion dollars. I cannot describe
- [Haylee Ebersole at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts](https://newartexaminer.net/haylee-ebersole-at-the-pittsburgh-center-for-the-arts/) - In continuation of a long standing tradition the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, known for its support and promotion of regional contemporary art, selected Haylee Ebersole, from a group of nominated artists, for the emerging artist of the year for 2017. Her work appears on the second floor in the back three exhibition spaces of
- [Carol Levin’s Battleground Horse](https://newartexaminer.net/carol-levins-battleground-horse/) - Without doubt the most exquisite exhibit that ever went up on gallery walls was a few years ago in the Selden Gallery in Norfolk Virginia. A photo of the piece here highlights its sheer agony and sheer beauty. The Battleground Horse by Carol Levin, along with approximately ten other pieces of sculpture, was both here
- [The Human Face of an American Icon](https://newartexaminer.net/the-human-face-of-an-american-icon/) - Jane Addams Allen 1987 SUMMARY: Georgia O’Keeffe cultivated an image as hard and austere as the bones and mountains that were her favorite subjects. But a National Gallery of Art exhibition featuring rarely seen works and many of O’Keeffe’s personal letters offers another view and makes clear that she was an intensely alive artist, passionate
- [Derek Guthrie in conversation with Jo Clarke](https://newartexaminer.net/derek-guthrie-in-conversation-with-jo-clarke/) - Derek Guthrie: When did you open Goldfish? Joseph Clarke: I started in 2003. DG: What inspired you to open a commercial gallery in Cornwall? Because you must have known it was going to be very difficult. JC: I didn’t really consider whether it be difficult or not it was just a case of looking to
- [Gaining Recognition: The Dream Denied and now Defined](https://newartexaminer.net/gaining-recognition-the-dream-denied-and-now-defined/) - Argument: The corruption that infects the art world is not one of the heart, but one of control. The liberal condition has become one that hides decision making and takes constructive criticism as an attack. The malaise in the community arises from accepting that, because there are more choices and more artists, the culture is
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-16/) - The Problematics of Black Representation Interviewer: Do you consider yourself a painter or a black painter? Basquiat: Oh I use lots of colors not just black. I’m not a betting man, but I’ll wager $10 that 15 years ago the average MFA student would have been hard pressed to name 10 African-American artists contemporary or
- [Letters](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-2/) - Codswallop Dear Editor Cheers to Ken Turner for his courageous performance in St. Ives, Codwallop reviewed in the last issue. While raising awareness around town pulling a fish in a wagon, Turner asks questions to the public and to the cod. Where is the art critical dialogue? What’s going on in the art world today?
- [A PETITION TO REVERSE ELISABETH MURDOCH'S APPOINTMENT TO ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND](https://newartexaminer.net/a-petition-to-reverse-elisabeth-murdochs-appointment-to-arts-council-england/) - A PETITION TO REVERSE ELISABETH MURDOCH'S APPOINTMENT TO ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND Sir Nicholas Serota Chair of Arts Council England Arts Council England 21 Bloomsbury Street London WC1B 3HF ACE decision to appoint Elisabeth Murdoch to National Council Dear Sir Nicholas Serota, Artists’ Union England calls on Arts Council England, to reverse the decision to appoint
- [Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-3/) - As the economy recedes, and as the political crisis deepens, the USA is a land of apprehension. A long way from the post-war boom. That time witnessed the triumph of American abstract art. Art follows the money. Embedded in millennial thinking is the Van Gogh syndrome and also the less spectacular introvert voice of Paul
- [Volume 32 no 3 Jan/Feb 2018](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-32-no-3-jan-feb-2018/) - In this issue: Daniel Nanavati on how to use humour to close down the politically correct debate Dhyano Angius, performance artist and philosopher, has the SPEAKEASY. Chris Cutrone, School of the Art Institute, on why the Millennial Left is dead. Derek Guthrie on why he left Chicago (interview with Paul Germanos) Miklos Legrady on the
- [St Ives Artists - A Biography of Place and Time. Michael Bird](https://newartexaminer.net/st-ives-artists-a-biography-of-place-and-time-michael-bird/) - BOOK REVIEW: St Ives Artists is written like a story – a novel about artists. From the loving words about the Frosts' journey down to St Ives by train, to the tale of the influence of France on Ben Nicholson. There are vital pieces of information that are given but not resolved – the fact
- [New, New Tate St Ives, so good they built it twice.](https://newartexaminer.net/new-new-tate-st-ives-so-good-they-built-it-twice/) - I have seen the New Tate St Ives in all its glory. And I do really mean glory. From the moment I went through the main door I felt a completely different atmosphere in the gallery. It seemed much more open and warm, colourful and inclusive and, happily, it appears not to have dumbed down
- [Rebecca Warren ‘All That Heaven Allows’](https://newartexaminer.net/rebecca-warren-all-that-heaven-allows/) - Rebecca Warren is the first artist to show in the new gallery at the Tate St Ives. Her work reminded me of bronzes made in the Bronze Age by the Nuraghic people in Sardinia. Not of their beautifully made, detailed yet simple forms of warriors and boats that are displayed so well in Caglieri Archaeological
- [Sven Berlin at Belgrave, St Ives](https://newartexaminer.net/sven-berlin-at-belgrave-st-ives/) - Sven Berlin Polymath Begrave Gallery 7-30 October 2017 This show is mainly of his later works with one or two earlier pieces. They run through sculpture, paintings, drawings which, apart from the last, all show the same weakness. Sven Berlin was eventually run out of St Ives in his gypsy caravan, seeking a life in
- [40th Anniversary at the Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh](https://newartexaminer.net/40th-anniversary-at-the-mattress-factory-pittburgh/) - Hard to believe but the Mattress Factory, known as one of the premier venues for installation art, has been in existence for 40 years. During this time, it has attracted and encouraged well known global players, a wide array of artists at various stages of career development and emerging, Pittsburgh based, artists. Six artists have been
- [Neil Goodman Twists and Turns](https://newartexaminer.net/neil-goodman-twists-and-turns/) - Carl Hammer Gallery Neil Goodman’s new work reinforces his status as one of Chicago’s premier sculptors. Each comprises a single bronze shape repeated a number of times under strict rules of symmetry. His shapes for the most part suggest elongated tools, linear with blades at one end similar to an axe or a spade. Each
- [Anne Lindberg at Carrie Secrets Gallery](https://newartexaminer.net/anne-lindberg-at-carrie-secrets-gallery/) - Anne Lindberg’s work is just fabulous. I’ve done lots and lots of work in colored pencil over the years and know the material very well, They way she uses materials is just amazing. Her technique is stunning. The very large scale drawings around 80x60 inches are made by her walking down the length of the
- [Society Diluted by Art](https://newartexaminer.net/society-diluted-by-art/) - Mr. X, who up until now has been an unknown artist from Salzgitter in Germany, staged a major environment for his neighbors by leaving all the taps of the kitchen sink, bath tub and toilet of his apartment running non-stop for an entire year. The event became a live performance in October 2017 when he
- [The Framing of Black Identity](https://newartexaminer.net/the-framing-of-black-identity/) - Martin Puryear Parasol Unit, London.18th September – 6th December 2017 Intricate discussions about methods of woodworking and formal decisions about sculpture characterised Martin Puryear’s lectures in the early 1980’s in Chicago. He didn’t at that time overtly ’play the race card’ but you could see plain as day he was a Black man talking about
- [An Altar from Vannucci](https://newartexaminer.net/an-altar-from-vannucci/) - The city has many cultural and artistic events aimed at pleasing a variety of tastes from the most refined to the coarsest. In Milan, especially after the Expo, there has been a greater flow of foreign visitors. Numerous exhibitions have been organized at various levels of quality, with many responding to a market economy. The
- [Fashionably Recycled](https://newartexaminer.net/fashionably-recycled/) - This is a photograph of a bike sharing graveyard in China taken from a drone, which has assumed its own beauty. This leads to the consideration in an indirect way of the fashion attire represented in racing cyclists. Maria Teresa Castelli of Studio Taste in Italy has become a leading designer for racing cyclists, which
- [The Expanded Print at Western Michigan University](https://newartexaminer.net/the-expanded-print-at-western-michigan-university/) - I did not go there looking for Titian and I didn’t find him. Instead I saw an intelligently curated show that presented some of the best printmaking of our time, interesting support pieces, and a model that sheds light on the American art scene since we declared ourselves non-inferior to Europe (c. 1962). If the
- [Notes on the Dallas Art Scene](https://newartexaminer.net/notes-on-the-dallas-art-scene/) - Dallas is a mythical concept. It is America in ways that New York, Chicago or Los Angeles are no longer. It is further from convention, and wrapped within its locality and character in a manner that causes other cities to seem timid in their skins. Dallas embodies its country’s most dynamic hallmarks—economic growth, technological advancement
- [Tim Shaw talks to Derek Guthrie](https://newartexaminer.net/tim-shaw-talks-to-derek-guthrie/) - DG: So, when did you come down to Cornwall? TS: I ... I moved here September 1985 ... DG: Yes TS: I was a first-year undergraduate at Falmouth School of Art DG: So you came down here to be an art student at Falmouth. TS: That's right, yes DG: ... and you hadn't been at
- [Why I Left Chicago](https://newartexaminer.net/why-i-left-chicago-2/) - PG: How old are you? Where are you from? When did you come here? Is Chicago one of many stops on your journey? I had lived in London. Cornwall, Paris, and India exploring the art world in my youth. I was looking to experience the quality and dynamic of American life. I watched from
- [The Millennial Left is Dead](https://newartexaminer.net/the-millennial-left-is-dead/) - They had friends, they had enemies, they fought, and exactly through this they demonstrated their right to exist. (“Art and Politics in Our Epoch,” letter of January 29, 1938) The more daring the pioneers show in their ideas and actions, the more bitterly they oppose themselves to established authority which rests on a conservative “mass
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-15/) - If I was asked the question, “What do you think about the Art Market?” I would answer with exactly the same words Ghandi used, when he was asked about the Western Civilization: ‘I think that would be a good idea.’ As I look out there, I can’t see such a thing as an Art Market.
- [Letters](https://newartexaminer.net/letters/) - Prologue A post-modern agenda challenging the ontological status of aesthetic value countered the qualitative visual arts by purporting a nonsensical aesthetic, sensory and cultural consumption. It focused on nonsensical concepts and processes regarding media adaptation, compositional values, inter-arts collaboration, societal implications and 21st century digital/analog application. The attached poem, Unforms Dancing, addresses this dualistic dilemma
- [Editorial](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-2/) - Humour can often get a message over more readily than any amount of serious work. Though sensibilities change. Things that were jokes in the 1970s are viewed with disbelief for their sheer political incorrectness today. Conversely, some people look at the horrors of an Hieronymus Bosch with a wry smile so we should not be
- [Volume 32 no.2 November/December 2017](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-32-no-2-november-december-2017-2/) - In This Issue: SPEAKEASY by BERT BISCOE, talks about the relationship between critics and artists. DANIEL NANAVATI, the UK Editor, takes a look at Dwight MacDonald’s seminal essay from 1962, in Against the American Grain, on Masscult and Midcult. J’Accuse Falmouth University We reprint TIM SHAW’S explosive letter of November 2016. The Shocking truth FREA LOCKLEY,
- [Bee in my Bonnet: The Kurt Jackson Foundation Gallery](https://newartexaminer.net/bee-in-my-bonnet-the-kurt-jackson-foundation-gallery/) - The impressive conversion of a sizeable industrial building overlooking, with large picture windows, the Tregeseal valley, was completed in late 2016. Opening with the Jackson Foundations first exhibition, in this new building, entitled “Following the Surfer”. After a six month running period the second and current installation continuing until Sept 2017 is insect themed. Publicised
- [The Nail In the Coffin](https://newartexaminer.net/the-nail-in-the-coffin/) - “Codswallop” is a performance piece created by the Cornish veteran artist Ken Turner, inspired by the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes. At the St Ives Festival in September 2017 he placed a large, fresh cod onto a trolley and pulled the vehicle through the streets of St Ives challenging people to discuss their lack of sensibility
- [Hadi Tabatabai:Transitional Spaces](https://newartexaminer.net/hadi-tabatabaitransitional-spaces/) - The solo exhibition Hadi Tabatabai:Transitional Spaces is co-presented by the wats:ON? Festival and curated by Spike Wolff. The festival, an annual event, celebrates and honors the life and work of Jill Watson, a CMU alumna. Watson, who was killed in a plane crash in 1996, was a well-known Pittsburgh architect and was recognized for her
- [Fern Shaffer at 116 Gallery](https://newartexaminer.net/fern-shaffer-at-116-gallery/) - Fern Shaffer has been working as an artist for over 40 years, exhibiting performances, paintings and photographs as both shaman and teacher. In this not so quiet space of a gallery, Gallery 116, located in St. Charles, Illinois, Shaffer paints the common plants including Cannabis, Artemisia, Dandelion, Digitalis, Lungwort, Ginkgo and Gopherspurge. Large representations of
- [Nathaniel Mary Quinn at Rhona Hoffman Gallery](https://newartexaminer.net/nathaniel-mary-quinn-at-rhona-hoffman-gallery/) - Nathaniel Mary Quinn’s exhibit at Rhona Hoffman’s West Loop gallery is truly wonderful. The portraits in the show consist of collages and hand drawn elements, creating fractured faces and bodies. I really love the way the work mixes collage with drawn and painted areas. The fractured areas of the faces sometimes appear to be applied
- [‘Wheres the glitch fam?’](https://newartexaminer.net/wheres-the-glitch-fam/) - As circumstance breeds response so computers and the Internet bred glitch or as Jon.Cates of SAIC would call it ‘Dirty New Media’. In an increasingly computerized and data-centric society it would seem inevitable that the fetishization of error as a response to technology and its colonization of both our public and private lives is the
- [Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History](https://newartexaminer.net/markus-lupertz-threads-of-history/) - The arrival of Markus Lupertz to Washington D.C. was a watershed moment for the artists of Washington D.C. but, alas, another visit to the Road Show D.C. came and went, in passive silence. Although two of Washington’s most noted museums featured their main stages for such a World renown figure in European art,[ a feat in
- [Architecture Towards Political Crises: The 1937 Paris International Exposition in Context](https://newartexaminer.net/architecture-towards-political-crises-the-1937-paris-international-exposition-in-context/) - The 1937 Exposition Internationale des Arts et Techniques dans la Vie Moderne (‘International Exposition of Art and Technology in Modern Life’) was held in Paris: the French capital’s sixth and latest International Exposition, after fairs held in 1855, 1867, 1878, 1889, and 1900. It took place between 25 May and 25 November, centred upon the
- [An investigation has revealed how one British university spends its money. And it’s absolutely shocking](https://newartexaminer.net/an-investigation-has-revealed-how-one-british-university-spends-its-money-and-its-absolutely-shocking/) - First published in The Canary 17th September 2017 There has been widespread criticism of high earnings by university vice-chancellors (VC). Because it comes at a time when students are facing growing levels of debt. But there are deeper issues in some HE institutions. And some university lecturers, many who have voiced criticism, have left or
- [A sign of the times: growth, but at what cost?](https://newartexaminer.net/a-sign-of-the-times-growth-but-at-what-cost/) - A sign of the times: growth, but at what cost? I am a professional sculptor who has lived and worked in Cornwall for many years. My relationship with the university goes back 30 years to when I was a sculpture student at Falmouth School of Art between 1984 and 1989. During the 1990s and until
- [Hannah Perry Saucier: The Chip.  Matthew Rachman Gallery](https://newartexaminer.net/hannah-perry-saucier-the-chip-matthew-rachman-gallery/) - Hannah Perry Saucier’s recent show at the Matthew Rachman Gallery “The Chip” is an interesting one. She is showing two different series of paintings one series called “Mindscape" is fairly interesting bold colors and kind of hip Mid-Century vibe, like a blue record cover meets Stuart Davis thing, I really enjoyed them. I loved the
- [Every Man has the Right to be Stupid](https://newartexaminer.net/every-man-has-a-right-to-be-stupid/) - “Every man has the right to be stupid, but Comrade Macdonald abuses the privilege. (attrib to Leon. Trotsky when talking about Dwight MacDonald and often quoted thereafter by MacDonald.)” Mascult and Midcult in "Essays Against the American Grain, Essays on the Effects of Mass Culture" is a classic essay by the American philosopher and political
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-14/) - Creativity as a human endeavour rarely occurs in a vacuum. It is an impulse which compels a person to act. Failure to act can have consequences, some of which can amount to some semblance of pain. I recently helped to raise money to purchase a picture by Richard Pentreath of the C19th Zennor poet, Henry
- [Letters Volume 32 no.2 November/December 2017](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-volume-32-no-2-november-december-2017/) - The Attack on Derek Guthrie Dear Daniel, Who is Joe? When I taught logic I recommended students master the informal fallacies because they are likely to persuade more people than sound reasoning. Cynical, I suppose, but also the way things are. Honest argument is not very popular. Joe says you and Derek are “rusty” and
- [Editorial Volume 32 no.2 November/December 2017](https://newartexaminer.net/editorial-volume-32-no-2-november-december-2017/) - The shared symbolic order that defined much of art throughout human history had a lot to do ( some may say everything ) with theology. From Astarte the many breasted fertility goddess of clay, to the Parthenon through to the Sistine Chapel, endless icons and intricate designs in places of worship were the desires of
- [Destabilizing Marcel Duchamp](https://newartexaminer.net/destabilizing-marcel-duchamp/) - The hero as a cautionary tale. Duchamp is not the man we know, that persona is a cultural construct. Duchamp’s ideas could not be based on a deep philosophical understanding of art because the science was missing in his time, a science asserting today a biological necessity to the sensual art he rejected. Surprisingly enough,
- [Amy Casey: Zg Gallery](https://newartexaminer.net/amy-casey-zg-gallery/) - I recently headed down to the River North Gallery district to checkout the Gregory Jacobsen show “Balm of Body, Spice of Flesh” which is a pretty cool show well done and interesting; however when I looked into what was hanging in the office gallery my heart stopped for a second. It was work by Cleveland
- [ŠTO TE NEMA_ (Why Are You Not Here?) – July 11th, Daley Plaza Chicago 2017 Aida Šehović](https://newartexaminer.net/sto-te-nema_-why-are-you-not-here-july-11th-daley-plaza-chicago-2017-aida-sehovic/) - ŠTO TE NEMA (Why Are You Not Here?) – July 11th, Daley Plaza Chicago 2017 Aida Šehović An installation / performance created to commemorate the murders of over 8,902 men, women and children in the Bosnian/Herzgovina War of 1992-1995. How to talk about genocide? How do we heal form genocide? How do we fight against
- [Keeping an Eye Open - Book Review](https://newartexaminer.net/keeping-an-eye-open-book-review/) - “How far does an artist’s individuality develop as a result of pursuing and refining the strengths of his or her talent, and how much from avoiding the weaknesses?” Julian Barnes has written many articles about artists he admires or from whom he has received deep visual experiences. In this volume these previously published essays are
- [Rosemary Feit Covey](https://newartexaminer.net/rosemary-feit-covey/) - Rosemary Feit Covey’s graphic, linear,prints on show at the Morton Fine Art are a confrontation with her demons and anxieties, very finely tuned, One cut begets the next in a hopeful trance. As she is working, she challenges herself to go on trusting the dervish, knowing full well her cutting tool may slip and her
- [Disenchanted](https://newartexaminer.net/disenchanted/) - I happened to be, for the second time in my life, in beautiful Cornwall and happened to visit the current exhibition at Penwith Gallery in St. Ives. I could have turned away and not written this but I have a need to share my opinion with others. “Art must discard nothing or no one, like
- [Answering the Wrong Questions](https://newartexaminer.net/answering-the-wrong-questions/) - “What Is This Place?” At the Newlyn Art Gallery - 22 April – 15th July An exhibition of paintings by eight artists Whenever I walk into the Newlyn Gallery I am reminded of my first, and the gallery’s first, performance art piece, entitled Doubtless in 1994 put together by myself, Alaric Sumner, Rory McDermott, David Kemp,
- [Derain, Balthus, Giacometti; An artistic friendship](https://newartexaminer.net/derain-balthus-giacometti-an-artistic-friendship/) - Le Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville in Paris 2 June to 29 October 2017 This exhibition comprises some 350 works (including sculptures, prints, letters and photographs)which evolved from the friendship between these three artists. This friendship is demonstrated in their joint fascination for classical Italian masters, formal clarity, portraiture and experimentation with both still
- [The Last Bohemia](https://newartexaminer.net/the-last-bohemia/) - Terry Frost at the Belgrave, St Ives This exhibition of Terry Frost: A Book of Ideas with 32 works on paper from his scrapbook has an importance Terry Frost is a major painter from the post-war era when the St Ives school established itself as a major force in contemporary art. St Ives was the
- [Today's Robots are Tomorrow's Artists](https://newartexaminer.net/todays-robots-are-tomorrows-artists/) - In an attempt to bridge the gap, breakdown barriers and perhaps change culturally ingrained perceptions created by literature and the film industry about how humans and robots interact, artists Mathias Gommel, Marinta Haitz, and Jan Zapper of robotlab, have set up a sophisticated play date between humans and robots, in order to ease the transition
- [Modernism, Postmodernism, Remoderism](https://newartexaminer.net/modernism-postmodernism-remoderism/) - Stuckism is not about being stuck in the past but about taking a different fork in the road. It’s been called Re-modernism in the Stuckist Manifesto, and takes the stand that Modernism started off well, but took a wrong turn and disappeared into pure idea like a puff of smoke. So we’re going back to
- [Why I Left Chicago](https://newartexaminer.net/why-i-left-chicago/) - Paul Germanos: How old are you? Where are you from? When did you come here? Is Chicago one of many stops on your journey? Mark Staff Brandl: I just turned 60! I am an artist of the venticento, was born, mid novecento, in 1955 in Peoria and went to high school in Pekin, Illinois. I
- [Declaration of the Independence of Mind](https://newartexaminer.net/declaration-of-the-independence-of-mind/) - Brain workers, comrades, scattered throughout the world, kept apart for five years by the armies, the censorship and the mutual hatred of the warring nations, now that barriers are falling and frontiers are being reopened, we issue to you a call to reconstitute our brotherly union, but to make of it a new union more
- [How to Act Ethically in Art](https://newartexaminer.net/how-to-act-ethically-in-art/) - Don’t fuck the curator. Or the artist, the gallerist, the writer, or their editor. Unless, of course, you really want to. And, it almost goes without saying, they also really want to. But it’s best avoided, really, as the power dynamics are messy. But so is love. So is desire. So, it turns out, is
- [New Growth Needed from the Decay](https://newartexaminer.net/new-growth-needed-from-the-decay/) - The market driven art establishment and its complicit media are a catastrophe for the arts. That annoying hum you hear in the background, is being provided by the arts for the powers that be, and it is not just a hum. I have come to realize that the equivalent of the current state of the
- [Jimi Dams' Letter](https://newartexaminer.net/jimi-dams-letter/) - Dear friends, As of August 4th, Envoy Enterprises will close its gallery space. While we will continue to exist, the time has come to take a step back and change the formula. The reason for my decision is simple…. it is not fun anymore. In my opinion the art industry has developed into an uninteresting,
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-13/) - The Art World As I Have Experienced It My journey into the arts has its beginnings in reading and watching documentaries on art history. In college I read every book and watched ever video i could find concerning art and its history. I wanted to learn everything I could. The art world I had envisioned
- [Letters - Volume 32 no. 1 September/October 2017](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-volume-32-no-1-septemberoctober-2017/) - Dear Editor, The Post Office box we rented six months ago will expire at end of July. Do you want to renew it for Derek? If not, I need to return the keys. You have one and I have one. Can I come by to pick it up next week or do you want to
- [The Plight of the Image](https://newartexaminer.net/the-plight-of-the-image/) - Susan Sontag wrote in 'On Photography', that everything today exists to end in a photograph. John Berger in Ways of Seeing told us that reproduction had reinforced an agreed canon of images and given us the expectation of what we see and its worth before we see it. Giacometti in his thinned out, sculptured busts
- [Volume 32 No 1 September / October 2017](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-32-no-1-september-october-2017/) - In this issue: Jimi Dams on the failed business model of the art fair. Miklos Legrady gives us Marcel Duchamp in his own words. Charles Thomson describes Remodernism Paul Germanos interviews Mark Staff Brandl in his Why I Left Chicago series We commence a new occasional series on manifestos that enlivened intellectual discussion
- [The Japanese House](https://newartexaminer.net/the-japanese-house/) - The Japanese House: Architecture and Life after 1945, 23 March 2017 - 25 June 2017 Barbican Centre, London. In contrast to the sad home of Philip Larkin’s poem, which “stays as it is left, shaped to the comfort of the last to go”, the Japanese house, as perfectly demonstrated by this exhibition, is an ever–changing
- [A studio by the Sea](https://newartexaminer.net/a-studio-by-the-sea/) - The Studio and the Sea, Jessica Warboys Tate, St Ives – 31st March - 3rd September 2017 The Tate St Ives has always harboured a dilemma; how to live up to its remit to have a permanent exhibition of local artists from the St Ives Movement inside its walls. It has never solved this dilemma
- [A YEAR AT CAPE CORNWALL](https://newartexaminer.net/a-year-at-cape-cornwall/) - A YEAR AT CAPE CORNWALL: Neil Pinkett's Show at Cornwall Contemporary Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall, UK May 2017. It is the privilege of the artist to create a world that no-one has ever seen before. If the work is weak we are not convinced, it is arbitrary, trivial. If the artist is good, however, there is that
- [Death Expected](https://newartexaminer.net/death-expected/) - To decipher Paula Ballo Dailey one must immediately understand she was terminally ill. From her diagnosis of cancer until her death in 2016, a mere two months passed. She had started on some of her work and consequently finished it within that time frame with great help from caretaker and artist husband, Brian. Paula had
- [Michael Williams AT THE CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ARTS](https://newartexaminer.net/michael-williams-at-the-carnegie-museum-of-arts/) - Throughout the history of painting mimicry has been an ever present strategy, from sourcing the natural world to the mechanical properties of photography. Now trending is computer as muse: either as a tool for the process of painting, ink jet output as the painting, or a combination of both. For Michael Williams’ first solo museum
- [You'll Know It When You See It](https://newartexaminer.net/youll-know-it-when-you-see-it/) - The title of this comment “defines” art well enough, especially when the folly of trying to define it formally raises its perplexing head. When Marcel Duchamp is given credit, as he so often is, for making the definition of art an important issue, I roll my eyes. How is it we recognize the animal images
- [A VERY MODERN MANIFESTO – GOYA 1792](https://newartexaminer.net/a-very-modern-manifesto-goya-1792/) - An Unknown Treasure It is little known that the Spanish enlighted-romantic master painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) wrote to inform Academics of his suggestions for a new curriculum, training students of the Arts. it was, in effect, a manifesto establishing the core need for freedom of expression in one’s Art. At the time
- [An Incomplete Project? Art and Politics in the new Millennium](https://newartexaminer.net/an-incomplete-project-art-and-politics-in-the-new-millennium/) - What was postmodernism? – Habermas’s critique Postmodernism challenged the institutionalized modernism of the mid-20th century, offering more radical forms of social discontents and cultural practice. It meant unmasking the values of progress as involving ideologies of the political status-quo, the problems of which were manifest to a new generation in the 1960s. But, more recently,
- [Thoughts on a Personal Manifesto](https://newartexaminer.net/thoughts-on-a-personal-manifesto/) - Transcendence, transcendent, and transcendental are words that refer to an object (or a property of an object) as being comparatively beyond that of other objects. Such objects (or properties) transcend other objects (or properties) in some way. transcendent |tranˈsendɘnt| Adj. beyond or above the range of normal or merely physical human experience : the search
- [A Useful Guide to Modernism in Art](https://newartexaminer.net/a-useful-guide-to-modernism-in-art/) - We have learned to whittle the Eden Tree to the shape of a surplice-peg, We have learned to bottle our parents twain in the yolk of an addled egg, We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart; But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old:
- [Art and Critical Theory: Five Course Objectives and Explanatory Commentary](https://newartexaminer.net/art-and-critical-theory-five-course-objectives-and-explanatory-commentary/) - This article is an explanatory essay written, in the fall of 2016, for a graduate art theory course in which some students were subject to what I call the “tyranny of relevance.” Two particularly militant students insisted that a historical approach to art theory had no value because it was an exercise in oppression that
- [Death of Damien Hirst in Venice](https://newartexaminer.net/death-of-damien-hirst-in-venice/) - “Money complicates everything. I have a genuine belief that art is a more powerful currency than money – thats the romantic feeling that an artist has. But you start to have this sneaking feeling that money is more powerful.” (Damien Hirst) “Becoming a brand name is an important part of life. Its the world we
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-12/) - To think that Washington D.C. is a major progenitor of the visual arts would be an incorrect assumption. Of course we are an art center and an international confluence of art passing into America from a global context – yes, given our embassies and museums and galleries and schools and of course, the Federal Government
- [Letters to the Editor](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-to-the-editor/) - Winners Get Grants, Losers Don’t Dear Editor, “... like any juried or selection process, there’s people who can be perceived as winners and people who can be perceived as losers.” So says the executive director of a prominent D.C. non-profit arts organization in a recent article in The Washington City Paper. He’s right. There simply
- [Chicago can be Reborn from Community](https://newartexaminer.net/chicago-can-be-reborn-from-community/) - The New Art Examiner was created as a resistance to censorship and the control of the Chicago art elite. It has a policy of zero tolerance for such activities. Chicago has never forgiven this act of independence, because it has its own hometown paranoia, which revolves around the application of power. Smoke and mirrors is
- [Chicago can be Reborn from Community](https://newartexaminer.net/chicago-can-be-reborn-from-community-2/) - The New Art Examiner was created as a resistance to censorship and the control of the Chicago art elite. It has a policy of zero tolerance for such activities. Chicago has never forgiven this act of independence, because it has its own hometown paranoia, which revolves around the application of power. Smoke and mirrors is
- [Galleries Representing Felix Gonzalez-Torres are Airbrushing HIV/AIDS Out of His Work: It Needs to Stop.](https://newartexaminer.net/galleries-are-airbrushing-hivaids-out-of-felix-gonzalez-torress-work/) - This article was first published by artslant May 2017 There is no artist more synonymous with the poignancy, wistfulness and desolation of art made within the crucible of the HIV/AIDS crisis than Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957–1996). Within the maelstrom of that government-sponsored holocaust, his experience of it, and its effects on his communities, he created
- [Volume 31 no 6 July / August 2017](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-31-no-6-july-august-2017/) - Death of Damien Hirst in Venice - by Daniel Nanavati A New and Better Curriculum for Art Students - by Jorge Miguel Benitez Understanding Modernism, Part 1 - by Charles Thomson A Very Modern Manifesto Goya 1792 - by Susanna Gómez Lain, Madrid editor Thoughts on a Personal Manifesto - by Tom Nakashima An Incomplete Project,
- [Speakeasy - Volume 36 no 1 September / October 2021](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-volume-36-no-1-september-october-2021/) - Modernism, Formalistic Abstraction’s Lost Sibling An article, titled “Controversy vs Quality”, was featured prominently in the May 21 issue of the Wall Street Journal, and was fairly typical of its kind, in that it was an appeal to do away with the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) as we know it. The pretext
- [The Birth of Purity](https://newartexaminer.net/the-birth-of-purity/) - Here is an artist dealing with the free-for-all that is the postmodern enterprise and digging deep to reconcile some of its thoughts with those of (almost) art's archaeological history. The themes of womanhood, birth and creative nature run through her work like a river, an analogy she would probably relish. The Terracotta style colours redolent
- [After 40 years Sowing Seeds in Academia](https://newartexaminer.net/after-40-years-sowing-seeds-in-academia/) - - a special art exhibition at RCVA, WMU, Kalamazoo, Michigan Richmond Center of Visual Arts (RCVA) is a designated space for academia, community artists and international artists to exhibit. A beautiful 5,000 sq feet exhibition space founded in 2007 on the campus of Western Michigan University within the city of Kalamazoo, Michigan. I was
- [The Lost Wonders of an Archive](https://newartexaminer.net/the-lost-wonders-of-an-archive/) - The artist Jason Lilley talks about his work on the Penwith Gallery Archive From an early age I have developed a keen fascination with the art and artists of Cornwall, especially those of St.Ives. In 2013 I was made a member of the Penwith Society of Arts who own, and exhibit at, the Penwith Gallery.
- [The Last Rose of a St Ives Summer](https://newartexaminer.net/the-last-rose-of-a-st-ives-summer/) - DG: So when did you first come to Cornwall? RH: I came - um - in 1960 first on a visit. DG: Yes: RH With Roger. I did come without Roger in ‘59 with - er - with a friend, a painter friend called Stella Sargant but we didn’t stay for long but my first
- [A Brush with John Berger, Hiroshima and the Kitchen Sink](https://newartexaminer.net/a-brush-with-john-berger-hiroshima-and-the-kitchen-sink/) - Meeting John Berger was not a problem; we lived in the same street in Hampstead. So one day I went across the street to show him some drawings of mine. We were exactly the same age, and it was in the year 1954. Nine years earlier the H-bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima: ten years
- [The Relevance of Critical Theory to Art Today](https://newartexaminer.net/the-relevance-of-critical-theory-to-art-today/) - The scholar of Benjamin’s and Adorno’s work, Susan Buck-Morss provided a pithy formulation for defining the tasks of both art and criticism in the modern era: “[Artists’] work is to sustain the critical moment of aesthetic experience; our job as critics is to recognize this.” Two aspects of Buck-Morss’s formulation of the work of artists
- [The Will to Ignorance: The Role of Academia in the Postmodern Debacle](https://newartexaminer.net/the-will-to-ignorance-the-role-of-academia-in-the-postmodern-debacle/) - The Avant-Garde and the Delusion of American Exceptionalism The Third Essay on the Limits of Postmodernism after November 2016 In the late nineteenth century, Friedrich Nietzsche asked and answered a question that still haunts the developed world: “‘What is the task of higher education?’ — To turn a man into a machine.” (Twilight of the Idols,
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-11/) - Each issue the New Art Examiner will invite a well-known, or not-so-well-known, art world personality to write a speakeasy essay on a topic of interest – whatever it may be. 1. Several of the women in my family seem to have a sour tooth. I learned this when my aunt confided in me some
- [Letters Volume 31 no 5 May / June 2017](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-volume-31-no-5-may-june-2017-2/) - Dear Editor, A New Statesman article last year reported that ‘The Creative Industries Federation, a membership organisation that represents the views of the UK creative industries, states that 96 per cent of its member’s support remaining in the EU…’ A major reason for this was Creative Europe, a €1.46 billion fund set up by the
- [Chicago is still 'theatrically corrupt'](https://newartexaminer.net/chicago-is-still-theatrically-corrupt/) - Dear Reader, A word of explanation is required to accompany our decision to publish the cover. Our Declaration of Independence. The Art world is composed of many bubbles and we all exist inside our own bubble. Including the New Art Examiner which is a journal of critical opinion. After the recent election in the US
- [WARNING TO READERS](https://newartexaminer.net/warning-to-readers/) - The Chicago Cabal have published have published an unauthorized edition of the New Art Examiner.We have received much advice from different sources this is illegal. a serious infringement of Intellectual property rights. Friends and readers do not be confused. Check out the name of the publisher before purchasing. THE OFFICAL VERSION LISTS DEREK GUTHRIE AS
- [Alex Katz, “Gathering” at the Guggenheim](https://newartexaminer.net/alex-katz-gathering-at-the-guggenheim/) - Mark Bloch The show, called “Gathering” takes its name from a 1951 poem by Alex Katz’s friend James Schuyler who wrote of gathering together beautiful flowers before they die and of gathering together one’s creative community. The curator Katherine Brinson has used the unidirectional architecture of the Guggenheim Museum to convey a visual chronology
- [Volume 31 no. 5 May / June 2017](https://newartexaminer.net/volume-31-no-5-may-june-2017/) - LETTERS p4 OP-ED - Our Cover Explained by DEREK GUTHRIE p2 SPEAKEASY Rachel Shteir our flâneur p9 THE WILL TO IGNORANCE by JORGE MIGUEL BENITEZ p11 JOHN BERGER a personal memory by KEN TURNER p18 ROSE HILTON last of the St Ives School interviewed by DEREK GUTHRIE p19 THE RELEVANCE OF CRITICAL THEORY TO ART
- [Letters Volume 31 no 5 May / June 2017](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-volume-31-no-5-may-june-2017/) - Dear Editor, A New Statesman article last year reported that ‘The Creative Industries Federation, a membership organisation that represents the views of the UK creative industries, states that 96 per cent of its member’s support remaining in the EU…’ A major reason for this was Creative Europe, a €1.46 billion fund set up by the
- [Letters Volume 30 no 6 August / September 2016](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-volume-30-no-6-august-september-2016/) - Dear Tom, All of us at the Block are very appreciative of the coverage you facilitated for our exhibition on Charlotte Moorman in your March / April Issue. Rachael Schwabe’s insightful article captured the ambitious scope of the show, and the compelling questions we wished to raise. We were thrilled to hear of your work
- [Letters Volume 30 no 2 October / November 2015](https://newartexaminer.net/letters-volume-30-no-2-october-november-2015/) - Dear Editor, Although I found the content of NAE of June 1st serious and weighty, it was mainly depressing in terms of the present state of our culture; based as it was on yesterday's well worn philosophies and art practices, most of which are already much written about and known. It focused on presenting us
- [The Arts Club of Chicago at 100: Arts and Culture 1916-2016](https://newartexaminer.net/the-arts-club-of-chicago-at-100-arts-and-culture-1916-2016/) - “The Arts Club of Chicago at 100: Arts and Culture 1916-2016” is not a particularly inviting title but the book itself is. Part institutional biography, part historical reflection, the book offers a thorough—if not particularly critical—history of an esteemed cultural body, its reinventions through the years, and its lasting legacy in Chicago’s art world. The
- [Before Pictures](https://newartexaminer.net/before-pictures/) - Douglas Crimp is an important figure in the development of postmodern art theory. He influenced a group of such 1970s artists as Robert Longo, Philip Smith and Cindy Sherman, whom he dubbed the “Pictures Generation.” Crimp made his mark curating a small show in 1977, titled “Pictures” at New York’s Artists Space gallery that has
- [“Yves Klein at the Tate Liverpool”](https://newartexaminer.net/yves-klein-at-the-tate-liverpool/) - Upon entering the exhibition space one is immediately struck by the uniqueness of what is being shown. The fabled trademarked IKB (International Klein Blue) is present in abundance. I am told by the attendant that, of the Monochromes 1955 -1961 – rectangular tablets of varying size, support thickness and surface texture, in clear Perspex box
- [“Unreal Realms”](https://newartexaminer.net/unreal-realms/) - Five Outsider Artists at Intuit Gallery Since his work was revealed to the public in the early seventies and rose to worldly acclaim shortly thereafter, Henry Darger has become the rule by which outsider art is measured. “Unreal Realms,” on view at Intuit Gallery, presents a selection of works by five artists, including Darger, and
- [“There was a whole collection made: Photography from Lester and Betty Guttman”](https://newartexaminer.net/there-was-a-whole-collection-made-photography-from-lester-and-betty-guttman/) - Any time a large donation from a private collection is made to a muse- um one has to question the impact that has on programming and the overall freedom the curators have in incorporating the new works into their exhibition plans. Obviously, it is a good thing to be gifted artwork but whose agenda comes
- [“Kemang Wa Lehulere: In All My Wildest Dreams”](https://newartexaminer.net/kemang-wa-lehulere-in-all-my-wildest-dreams/) - Clearly the large paned glass windows that rise up from the floor of the Art Institute’s Modern Wing make the front of galleries 182-184 feel like a retail space. Artists who have exhibited here in the past have highlighted this affect, Lucy McKenzie being a prime example. In the current exhibition, South African artist Kemang
- [Has The Arts Council Betrayed Its Origins?](https://newartexaminer.net/has-the-arts-council-betrayed-its-origins/) - As Nicholas Serota assumes control of the Arts Council as well as the Tate, we examine the history of this body and test its current policies against its founding principles Serota takes over at the Arts Council this month, 47 years after being employed as a regional arts officer, in what was his first job
- [The Avant-Garde and the Delusion of American Exceptionalism, “Blood-drenched Brushes and Golden Easels”](https://newartexaminer.net/the-avant-garde-and-the-delusion-of-american-exceptionalism-blood-drenched-brushes-and-golden-easels/) - Three Essays on the Limits of Postmodernism after November 2016 Second Essay: “Blood-drenched Brushes and Golden Easels” Does the art world bear any responsibility for the rise of right-wing nationalism? Prior to Brexit and the 2016 American presidential election, the question could be dismissed with postmodern nonchalance. It can no longer be avoided, especially if
- [Energy in Motion](https://newartexaminer.net/energy-in-motion/) - Stephen F. Eisenman sees Causal Connection Between The "Anthropocene" and Abstract Expressionism The decade and a half between 1945 to 1960, the heyday of Abstract Expressionism, may turn out to be the most consequential in the history of the planet. That’s when the human impact on nature became so great that the survival of life itself
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-10/) - Neoliberalism as an economic ideology is based on promoting “rational self-interest” through policies such as pivatisation, deregulation, globalisation and tax cuts, in which we now see the widest gulf between rich and poor in modern history. Culture and the arts have not been spared- artists have steadily fallen into the trap that has meant that
- [Art in Our Time and Political Milieu](https://newartexaminer.net/art-in-our-time-and-political-milieu/) - We each pay the price for the times we live in, but what crazy and discomforting times these are. To the arts falls the task of reflecting our times in meaningful and insightful ways. Good luck with that, Vincent. We struggle as individuals in a world where honesty, truth and justice have lost all meaning.
- [Judging Art in a post-modern world](https://newartexaminer.net/judging-art-in-a-post-modern-world/) - If skill is a thing of the past – or at the least has become disassociated from the artist – and there are no standards by which to judge works, where are we left? Too much philosophising can lead thinkers into blind alleys and back tracking is as hard a task as breaking new ground
- [Trouble In Mind](https://newartexaminer.net/trouble-in-mind/) - Please meet the two men who want to take over the New Art Examiner: Received April 17th 2017 from Michael Ramstedt: "Seduced By Poison" I truly hope everyone enjoys this read. In their own way. I know its REALLY long . . . (So it might take Derek a couple of weeks to get through
- [COMING in the next issue Volume 31 no.4 May / June 2017](https://newartexaminer.net/1264-2/) - In the May issue: THE RELEVANCE OF CRITICAL THEORY CHRIS CUTRONE Chris Cutrone (Adjunct Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism, School of the Art Institute of Chicago . A BRUSH WITH JOHN BERGER, HIROSHIMA AND THE KITCHEN SINK KEN TURNER remembers his personal meetings with John Berger over Hiroshima., the Kitchen Sink Painters and
- [Volume 31 no 4 March / April 2017](https://newartexaminer.net/march-april-2017/) - Op Ed BRUCE THORN: Art in Our Time and Political Milieu Speakeasy STEPHEN FELMINHAM: Art is Our Weapon Energy in Motion STEPHEN EISENMAN reviews “Abstract Expressionism” at London’s Royal Academy of Art “Blood-drenched Brushes and Golden Easels” JORGE MIGUEL BENITEZ’S second essay of his trilogy: The Avant-Garde and the Delusion of American Exceptionalism Has the Arts
- [Rhona Hoffman 40 years Part 2: Gender, Race, Identity](https://newartexaminer.net/rhona-hoffman-40-years-part-2-gender-race-identity/) - How to represent forty years of a gallery and the artists it has represented and shown? Rhona Hoffman Gallery is celebrating its forty years through three exhibitions of artists the gallery has shown over the years. Rhona Hoffman 40 years Part 2: Gender. Race. Identity showcases fifty pieces from eighteen artists, each with one to four pieces. At first Part 2 of this forty-year celebration
- [Procession: The Art of Norman Lewis](https://newartexaminer.net/procession-the-art-of-norman-lewis/) - Chicago Cultural Center (September 17, 2016–January 8, 2017) As I ascended the majestic staircase of the Cultural Center, I wasn’t prepared for what I was to find. I am familiar with Norman Lewis’ contemporaries, such as Willem de Kooning and Jackson Pollock. But Lewis’ abstract expressionism was unknown to me. At the start of the exhibition, we see a painting, “The Woman
- [Parade Excerpts at Corbett vs. Dempsey](https://newartexaminer.net/parade-excerpts-at-corbett-vs-dempsey/) - Review of Cauleen Smith (October 21–December 3, 2016) “CONDUCT YOUR BLOOMING.” Large fabric letters in a quilter’s assortment of blues and pinks are stitched by hand onto a black, sequined banner. At twelve and a half feet long and bisecting a corner of the room, Cauleen Smith’s banner takes over the “East Wing” of Corbett vs. Dempsey.
- [Young Dutch Fashion Designer Conquers the GRAM](https://newartexaminer.net/young-dutch-fashion-designer-conquers-the-gram/) - Many times when looking for the latest innovation we seek scientists, engineers and technology. But what if I told you that there is a fashion designer who is combining art with technological innovation, collaborating with other artists, scientists, and architects, and is one of the premier design houses in the world? Iris van Herpen, the young, 33 year-old Dutch woman is proving
- [The Avant-Garde and the Delusion of American Exceptionalism](https://newartexaminer.net/the-avant-garde-and-the-delusion-of-american-exceptionalism/) - Three Essays on the Limits of Postmodernism after November 2016 Volume 31 no.3 : The Illusion of Progress Why the election results should not have been surprising Future Issues: Volume 31 no.4: Blood-drenched Brushes and Golden Easels: An analysis of what Derek Guthrie calls the “Americanization of the avant-garde” Volume 31 no.5: The Will to Ignorance:
- [Painters’ Painters](https://newartexaminer.net/painters-painters/) - Artists of Today who Inspire Artists of Tomorrow Saatchi Gallery, London, UK (November 30, 2016–February 28th 2017) Works by Richard Aldrich, David Brian Smith, Dexter Dalwood, Raffi Kalenderian, Ansel Krut, Martin Maloney, Bjarne Melgaard, Ryan Mosley and David Salle I anticipated this exhibition with mixed feelings. I wonder are these artists all they’re cracked up to be,
- [When God Was a Woman](https://newartexaminer.net/when-god-was-a-woman/) - Musings on the Art of Monica Sjöö (1938–2005) The works of Monica Sjöö, Swedish born artist a radical feminist, explore themes of feminine power and socio-ecological responsibility. Highly influential in the Goddess Movement, some of her early works, which sit on the distaff side of politics and religious faith, were banned. “God Giving Birth” (1968)
- [Romantic Realities](https://newartexaminer.net/romantic-realities/) - Speculative Realism and British Romanticism by Evan Gottlieb Edinburgh University Press 2016 Speculative Realism was born in 2007 at a conference in Goldsmith College, the same college that gave us the YBA. Gottleib wishes to ally to a grouping of speculative realist philosophers the names of the Romantic poets as a counter-balance to Kant and
- [Remembering David Bowie at St Germans](https://newartexaminer.net/remembering-david-bowie-at-st-germans/) - Yesterday, on the train from Penzance to Paddington, as I passed the tiny station of St Germans, I looked back, and high over the the estuary bathed in the searing dawn light, was a perfect rainbow stretching over the rolling green lawns of Port Eliot, ancestral home of the Earls of St Germans. Port Eliot
- [For Whom (and What) Does an Artist Truly Perform?](https://newartexaminer.net/for-whom-and-what-does-an-artist-truly-perform/) - What does artist Ai Weiwei’s complex identity as an activist mean for artists campaigning on human rights There were two years, 2011 and 2015, that well-known Chinese contemporary artist, Ai Weiwei, appeared near the top of Art Review’s “Power 100,” a ranking of the most influential people in the contemporary art world. Both years happened to coincide with events connected
- [Lies, Damn Lies and Serota at the BBC](https://newartexaminer.net/lies-damn-lies-and-serota-at-the-bbc/) - Sir Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate Gallery, has used the platform of the BBC in a blatant attempt to deceive the nation. Either that or he is genuinely deluded himself. Both options render him unfit for major public office. He was confronted on Radio 4 programme The Reunion: Tate Modern on September 23rd by Sue MacGregor, regarding the
- [Who Runs Our Major Museums and Why Are They So Silent?](https://newartexaminer.net/who-runs-our-major-museums-and-why-are-they-so-silent/) - Like the heads of major corporations such as Google or General Motors, being a museum director is an equally prestigious post and equally shrouded in secrecy. He or she may be a quasi-public figure who attends exhibition openings and dinners, hobnobs with art collectors and donors and signs appeal letters. But who are they as
- [The Broad Has a Problem: Provincialism](https://newartexaminer.net/the-broad-has-a-problem-provincialism/) - The provincialism of collectors and cura- tors of contemporary art is a signal fact of our culture. The geographical exclusivity, class narrowness, formal predictability, and political innocuousness of the art on view at even the newest museums and galleries of contemporary art is testimony to this fact. Two cases in point: The “New Contemporary” galleries
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-9/) - A Ghost Ship of Tragedy and Crisis The horrific “Ghost Ship” fire in Oakland’s Fruitvale neighborhood on Dec. 2, 2016 was a tragedy waiting to happen. At least 36 young lives ended in a brief moment. Any of these victims could have been my own children or friends. We will never know the rewards
- [Taking On a New Role](https://newartexaminer.net/taking-on-a-new-role/) - My association with the New Art Examiner dates from 1980. I walked into its offices at 230 East Ohio to offer my services as a writer. I wanted to put my journalism background to use studying what is termed “The Art World.” And co- editor, Derek Guthrie (along with Jane Addams Allen) had just the
- [Assessing NAE’s Growth in 2016](https://newartexaminer.net/assessing-naes-growth-in-2016/) - I write this Publisher’s Editorial towards the end of December 2016 looking forward to escaping the cold of Chicago and to seek a kinder environment in Cornwall UK, and also to work with the UK team. Chicago is not known for its generosity of spirit. It is a hard culture. Yet the New Art Examiner
- [The Rise of the NAE Howler](https://newartexaminer.net/the-rise-of-the-nae-howler/) - As the New Art Examiner (NAE) continues to revitalize, plans are being made to introduce a sister publication called the Howler. A projected launch is scheduled for the spring of 2017. The Howler will be a substantial print-run publication for the mass-market, free of charge. This is contrary to the NAE that is a limited
- [The Dilemma of Patronage](https://newartexaminer.net/the-dilemma-of-patronage/) - Let us understand what has been happening in our societies for the past fifty years. The decision to try to end the poverty status of many artists and support them with tax payers grants was, at its outset, a noble move. Patronage has always been a two edged sword and for every patron prepared to
- [A Northern School Revisited](https://newartexaminer.net/a-northern-school-revisited/) - Liverpool, Manchester, and Birmingham are great 19th century English cities brought forth by the proceeds of manufacturing by the Industrial Revolution. British Society changed which naturally evolved a new patronage for the arts. The story of this book then, “A Northern School Revisited” (published in 2015 by ClarkArt Ltd) by Peter Davis, is a most welcome revisiting of a narrative art practice from that
- [Soul Bros in Art](https://newartexaminer.net/soul-bros-in-art/) - A review of Salvador Dali & Andy Warhol by Torsten Otte (Scheidegger & Spiess, 2015) Who knew that Salvador Dali and Andy Warhol were art bros? When they met and hung out in the mid-60s and ‘70s, Dali’s star was fading while Warhol’s was shooting up to the heavens. Yet, on reflection, their association makes perfect sense. Both were
- [Chicago Artist’s Visceral Sculptural Sense](https://newartexaminer.net/chicago-artists-visceral-sculptural-sense/) - Review of the book “Rene Romero Schuler: Paintings and Sculpture (2016) Whether working 2-dimensionally in paint or fabricating 3-dimensionally, René Romero Schuler is a sculptor. In her work, there is a visceral sense of material scraped, carved, and incised by hand. Her painting largely eschews brushes and is constructed with trowels and knives. Her sculpture— composed in a variety of media
- [“CAPITAL—DEBT, TERRITORY, UTOPIA”](https://newartexaminer.net/capital-debt-territory-utopia/) - An exhibition at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. 2 July to 6 November 2016 'Capital - Debt; Territory; Utopia' is an exhibition as vast and diverse as its grand title. Vast and diverse, but not daunting. Collected into a slightly too confined space, the huge canvas of this show draws you down a corridor of
- [“Heaven and hell” a review on El Bosco exhibition for the V Centenary  in Museo del Prado, Madrid](https://newartexaminer.net/heaven-and-hell-a-review-on-el-bosco-exhibition-for-the-v-centenary-in-museo-del-prado-madrid/) - After being extended for two weeks more, due to people’s demand you are still on time not to miss the exhibition commemorating the fifth anniversary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch (born Van Aken), colloquially called in Spain “El Bosco”. It only takes sixteen euros and two hours waiting on a queue to be transported
- [A Room of Surreal Mindscapes](https://newartexaminer.net/a-room-of-surreal-mindscapes/) - Camille Iemmolo and Jon Langford Exhibit: The Lonely Stage Thomas Masters Gallery, September. 9–23, 2016 Strolling along North Avenue one sunny September afternoon, I entered Thomas Masters Gallery on a whim. As I entered the back room, I was transfixed by the sight of a stage at the front of the room and artworks lining the three adjacent walls. This all-encompassing
- [“Politics, Rhetoric, Pop”](https://newartexaminer.net/politics-rhetoric-pop/) - For many of those engaged in Chicago’s art community, the work of the Imagists or the Hairy Who collective is a prominent milestone in the city’s artistic legacy. For others, this work plays second fiddle to the art historical moment happening in New York around the same time. Some arguments have been made that collectors of Hairy Who continue to promote the work in an effort
- [New Lines in Chelsea?](https://newartexaminer.net/new-lines-in-chelsea/) - On a recent visit to Manhattan, I looked in on a half-dozen Chelsea galleries. It seems that there is a mini-trend regarding the use of line as a dominant element in the works of four of the artists whose work I saw: Walter Darby Bannard at Berry Campbell, Jeff Elrod at Luhring Augustine, Charles Hewitt at Jim Kempner Fine Arts, and Oscar
- [Some Thoughts on Expo Chicago](https://newartexaminer.net/some-thoughts-on-expo-chicago/) - This autumn traditionally starts a new season in the art world, commencing with EXPO Chicago during a period of tumultuous politics and social activism. This turmoil is leading to more revelations of spiraling greed. The art world has long been inside this grip of greed and we are exhausted at the revelations that the world is still in no shortage of greed.
- [Team Art and Allen Vandever Host a Talk with Derek Guthrie](https://newartexaminer.net/team-art-and-allen-vandever-host-a-talk-with-derek-guthrie/) - Team Art, a collective of artists, invited Derek Guthrie, publisher of the New Art Examiner (NAE) to speak to the group about the NAE and the NAE’s revival on October 13th at the studio of Lynn Tsan. Allen Vandever of Team Art moderated. Guthrie gave a brief history of the magazine that he and his late wife, Jane Allen Adams
- [Johannesburg—A City in the Making](https://newartexaminer.net/johannesburg-a-city-in-the-making/) - Johannesburg is a city in the making, with all the crime, good intentions and missed opportunities that that entails. But being just 130 years old this year and still in the throws of independence, it gives us a window into how important symbols are to a country, and how those symbols are chosen and how those
- [Two Pioneering Institutions of Modern Art at 100 - The Arts Club](https://newartexaminer.net/two-pioneering-institutions-of-modern-art-at-100-the-arts-club/) - The Arts Club of Chicago and the Renaissance Society celebrated their Centennial Anniversary this year and last, respectively. Each was formed in the wake of the infamous Armory Show of 1913 to show support for Art to counter the withering criticism of that show and many of its displayed works. That did not mean these
- [A Small Picture of the Big Picture](https://newartexaminer.net/a-small-picture-of-the-big-picture/) - Description of the title illustration The illustration comprises of elements picked out from the article, and from there using it as a springboard, namely a mention of the words/name ‘carrot’, Madonnas, Satanic Mills and Nicholas Serota. I selected resonant words that could be richly illustrated. As a lover of puns, I hatched the moniker
- [The Importance of Being Earnest](https://newartexaminer.net/the-importance-of-being-earnest/) - While on the bus, Dynamic Energy by Douglas Gruizenga caught my eye. Gruizenga is a sculptor based in Interlochen, Michigan. Part of the 15th annual Chicago Sculpture Exhibit, his piece sits in a scruffy little parklet at the corner of Clark and Aldine streets. This giant cog wheel of welded aluminum boldly celebrates the machine age, recalling the engineering optimism of
- [Slow Painting](https://newartexaminer.net/941-2/) - “Slow Painting” was on view at the Richard Gray Gallery from July 14 through September 10. The Chicago art scene has a little Shangri-la called the Richard Gray Gallery, a legend in the American art scene. “Slow Painting” by Chicago Artist John Santoro fits well into this gallery’s standard of elegance and integrity. His paintings revisit the issues of French
- [Camera Wields Power to Mediate/Manipulate](https://newartexaminer.net/camera-wields-power-to-mediatemanipulate/) - “Witness” is on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art from now though February 19, 2017. “The Making of a Fugitive” is on view through December 4, 2016. A majority of the world’s population not only has access to the internet but also owns smart phones, according to Pew Research. This rapid expansion of technology generated a social space we are
- [Life’s Struggles and Black Rage: The Fire Then and Now](https://newartexaminer.net/lifes-struggles-and-black-rage-the-fire-then-and-now/) - Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem was on exhibit at the Art Institute from May 21 to August 28, 2016 Invisible Man: Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison in Harlem, the exhibition that just closed at the Art Institute of Chicago, focuses on collaborative projects created by two seminal Afro-American artists, each a consummate master of their mediums. Each
- [Mika Horibuchi and Brittany Nelson at PATRON](https://newartexaminer.net/mika-horibuchi-and-brittany-nelson-at-patron/) - Mika Horibuchi, “Draw the Curtain” and Brittany Nelson, “Controller,” An exhibition at PATRON Gallery that ran from June 25–August 13, 2016. The exhibitions of Mika Horibuchi and Brittany Nelson, on view this summer at PATRON Gallery, highlighted a noir quality of both artists’ work. Horibuchi, in particular, is exploring ambiguity as a genre. Her work occupies the gallery’s front space with an
- [Wheelers, dealers and supercollectors](https://newartexaminer.net/wheelers-dealers-and-supercollectors/) - Where are they taking the art market? Behind the artist in the act of creation stands the collector. His piggish eyes are gleaming, and his right hand firmly clutches the bulging money bag at his belt. Greed, as the 16th century drawing “The Painter and the Connoisseur" by Brueghel makes clear, has always been a
- [Museum Ethics: Still a Problem for the Profession and Contemporary Art](https://newartexaminer.net/museum-ethics-still-a-problem-for-the-profession-and-contemporary-art/) - This article ran in the New Art Examiner’s February 1982 issue. Why reprint it now? One reason is that the majority of museum and art world staff were quite young or not yet born when the incidents herein occurred and led to some reform, though enforcement remains weak. The key reason is that, while the
- [Death Stalks Damien's Imagination](https://newartexaminer.net/death-stalks-damiens-imagination/) - Damien Hirst, whose epithets as much as his work, sum up the vacuous heart of the modern age, is curating an exhibition on Hoyland who, much in line Hirst's predilections for his work, is dead. Death stalks the contemporary imagination perhaps because life in the West gives so much. What celebrities like Hirst dislike about
- [A Dream Denied](https://newartexaminer.net/a-dream-denied/) - In January 2015 Derek Guthrie arrived back in Cornwall after a gruelling experience in Chicago when the New Art Examiner for the third time in its history experience a coup attempt which, mercifully, failed. Let me tell you a little about the New Art Examiner. The most widely read journal of art criticism outside of
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-8/) - My goal was always to be an interested traveler in the arts. I have been fortunate to make many unscheduled stops in various forums and been close to many different forms of creative expression. My curious nature took me as a young adult from my artist fortress in my parent’s house to the world of live jazz
- [Museum Practices: A Symptom Of The Times —Then And Now](https://newartexaminer.net/museum-practices-a-symptom-of-the-times-then-and-now/) - The New Art Examiner is pleased to reprint the lead article written by Tom Mullaney in 1982. It was ahead of its time as we all know the Questions on Museum Practice have expanded into a greater gravitas. The question of the Museum points to a larger issue which is the failing structure of American culture. Today, the American political process
- [Left at the Altar](https://newartexaminer.net/left-at-the-altar/) - DePaul’s last-minute decision in July to not pursue a publishing partnership with the New Art Examiner (NAE) felt akin to the groom who has spent months of courting only to find his beloved has gotten cold feet. All that now remains of a bold idea is disappointment. When our editorial team of Derek Guthrie, Tom Mullaney and Annie Markovich first
- [The Big Picture](https://newartexaminer.net/the-big-picture/) - It is not challenging. I will explain this later, but in the meantime I would be grateful if you bear with me on an excursion through the last millennium or so of art. My aim is to understand the underlying values which inform current art language and to provide some helpful imperatives on how to
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-7/) - There is a tiny room in Chicago that everyone wants to enter. Thousands of artists are trying to break into a space that only has room for ten. Competition exists wherever there is an excess demand for resources and opportunities. The problem in the art world is that certain types of competition are artificially eliminated. Artists compete to be seen but
- [Youki Hirakawa: ‘Secret Fire’ Anima Mundi, St Ives](https://newartexaminer.net/youki-hirakawa-secret-fire-anima-mundi-st-ives/) - Through a mix of video, video installation and still image, this collection that obliquely explores themes of time and transience, inviting the spectator to enter a reflective world. Time slows down, senses sharpen, calm prevails and we are prompted to ponder the passage of time immemorial and mortality itself. Meaning and deference to the spiritual
- [There And Back Again at the Penwith Gallery,St.Ives.](https://newartexaminer.net/there-and-back-again-at-the-penwith-galleryst-ives-2/) - Through June the Penwith Gallery is hosting an exhibition of new paintings by Robert Jones, alongside Kerry Harding and Marion Taylors’ show, ‘There and Back Again.’ Robert Jones’s atmospheric and distinctively styled oil paintings of coastal seascapes and motifs (prices range from £420 - £4200.) benefit from having their own separate space - The Studio
- [There And Back Again at the Penwith Gallery,St.Ives](https://newartexaminer.net/there-and-back-again-at-the-penwith-galleryst-ives/) - Marion Taylor and Kerry Harding, There And Back Again at the Penwith Gallery,St.Ives. Kerry Harding’s, Pink Plough 2, had an impact with muted tones but a strong feeling of landscape so much so I found myself in the place, making several returns to this piece to see what it was it evoked. Other pieces from
- [Society Defined in Shapes](https://newartexaminer.net/society-defined-in-shapes/) - Martin Puryear has penetrated the art world hierarchy in a subtle, courageous journey, carving through the corridors of power to reveal a highly sophisticated message about Art. He also offers the viewer a message that explores racism in the U.S. — a rare expression of moral outrage whispered in masterfully skilled and beautifully constructed sculpture
- [Black Faces Matter: to Kerry James Marshall’s Art History](https://newartexaminer.net/black-faces-matter-to-kerry-james-marshalls-art-history/) - There can be no shying away from the lofty aspirations of Mastry, Kerry James Marshall’s aptly-titled retrospective now on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, through September 25. It then travels to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. To say that the show is
- [Between Certainty and Doubt](https://newartexaminer.net/between-certainty-and-doubt/) - The Renaissance Society has been a forerunner of the contemporary avant-garde since its founding in 1915. Over the past year, it marked this legacy with a series of centennial exhibitions, panel discussions, film screenings, and performances that displayed the Ren's customary confidence in its role as a grounded bastion for creative exploration. Weighing the celebration
- [Not So Secret Avian Icons](https://newartexaminer.net/not-so-secret-avian-icons/) - Walking into DePaul Art Museum's exhibit of Tony Fitzpatrick: The Secret Birds, on view through August 21, one confronts the artist's collection of colorful collages. A bird lies in the center of every work. Each depicts a different species and each bird is surrounded by imagery drawn from pop culture. Most pieces have a border
- [The Sky Above, Earth Below Redux](https://newartexaminer.net/the-sky-above-earth-below-redux/) - One hundred and twenty-three years ago, the world set its gaze on Chicago. Would this new city of one million citizens, only 22 years removed from the Great Fire, pull off a world’s fair, the grand Columbian Exposition? To the surprise of everyone – including those promoting the initiative – the city did. A major
- [Post-Modernism – its Origins, Features and Relevance](https://newartexaminer.net/post-modernism-its-origins-features-and-relevance/) - ‘A new world began in 1910’ said Roger Fry who organized the Post-Impressionist art exhibition at the Grafton Gallery in London that year. The new world in question was modernism in art, and the arts generally, which was effectively launched by that exhibition which included not only the work of Gauguin,Van Gogh, the Pont Aven
- [The Degeneration of the Avant-Garde into Fashion](https://newartexaminer.net/the-degeneration-of-the-avant-garde-into-fashion/) - The Times – God bless its little cotton socks – has just been celebrating the triumphal return of the 1990s as a creative force. “Suddenly contemporary art” it crows, “was part of popular culture. The Royal Academy’s landmark Sensation show in 1997 was a turning point.” It was so indeed, but not exactly in the
- [One Way To Think Like An Artist](https://newartexaminer.net/one-way-to-think-like-an-artist/) - “Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction.” Thinking about ‘thinking’ is one way of paying attention. We can look, think, envision, gaze, fancy, ponder, dream, reflect, stare into the distance, imagine and/or remember things as they swim into our minds. It is doubtful any one of these ‘methods’ could result in a
- [Night Divides the Day ...](https://newartexaminer.net/night-divides-the-day/) - The Doors in *Break on Through* The desire for high-class oddities is nothing new in sophisticated society. The educated have always loved this stuff. The eighteenth century English constructed "ruins" in their gardens that they viewed through smoked glass, making them seem older and more romantic. Gentlemen carried human gallstones to social gatherings to use
- [Cultural Autocracy at the New York Times](https://newartexaminer.net/the-changing-treasons/) - In New York there is just one newspaper setting the tone of cultural opinion: The New York Times. No other publication has a fraction of its influence. There isn't commensurate counter-voice that might blunt the The Times’ monopoly—not the New York Observer, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post nor USA Today, despite those newspapers outselling it
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-6/) - The Context of Creation For the course of 20th century art the narrative of the art world has romanticized a particular set of variables in regards to the creative space of the artist. The picturesque idea of the high ceilinged loft/industrial space in which the artist creates has, over the past century, been instilled in
- [Living Off, Not With, A Legacy](https://newartexaminer.net/living-off-not-with-a-legacy/) - The Dilemma of the Penwith Society The Penwith was formed in the late 1940's when the members were truly avant garde. It has enjoyed 25 years of St Ives Modernism under the likes of Hepworth, Nicholson, Lanyon, Berlin et al. That history has no bearing on its future. It has gone. Once St Ives had
- [Humans Can Only Create Corrupt Systems](https://newartexaminer.net/humans-can-only-create-corrupt-systems/) - The regular refrain about the art market being overpriced , overblown and an anchor weighing down creativity in our culture won’t go away. Ever. The reason is quite simple and anyone who has researched patronage even briefly, and the monetary system itself will understand: money panders to ego, vanity and power. So can art. The
- [The Future is With Us.](https://newartexaminer.net/the-future-is-with-us/) - With this issue, the New Art Examiner marks its first year back following a thirteen-year break. Our return, which began at Expo Chicago last September, has not been easy. We have managed to publish six forty-plus page issues with minimal advertising or subscription income. We have survived on pure faith and art-fed fumes. We owe
- [Exhibitionism - The Rolling Stones](https://newartexaminer.net/exhibitionism-the-rolling-stones/) - As I write this, the world is waking up to the news of the singer and songwriter, Prince’s untimely death at the age of 57. Prince was at the top of his game, so if we are to look dispassionately at the statistics of early deaths amongst rock stars, he has bowed out at a
- [A Revealing Sensitivity in Portraits and Video.](https://newartexaminer.net/a-revealing-sensitivity-in-portraits-and-video/) - Much of Boo Beaumont’s photographic work in Metamorph, at the Royal Cornwall Museum 22 February to 30 June 2016, seems to be about the interior essence of things. Her series of black and white portraits of remarkable women – twelve of which are exhibited in The National Gallery – have an intimate feel about them.
- [A Photographer of Coincidence](https://newartexaminer.net/a-photographer-of-coincidence/) - Kenneth Josephson: An Exhibition and Book Review In an earlier lifetime, I collected postcards, mostly reproductions of pictures I liked: favorite artworks or photographs by favorite photographers. Sometimes, they were simply images that drew me. One such image was “Acropolis, 1972” by Kenneth Josephson. I clearly remember what drew me. This was a photograph and
- [The New Contemporary](https://newartexaminer.net/the-new-contemporary/) - Sanctuary for the Edlis/Neeson Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago While record crowds make themselves at home in the Art Institute of Chicago’s exhibition of Van Gogh’s Bedrooms—examining three versions of this iconic painting—other visitors looking for a more recent avant-garde may be drawn to the museum’s reopened contemporary galleries, now billed as The New
- [Hype Is Not Enough](https://newartexaminer.net/hype-is-not-enough/) - A year ago (2014) some public art, 'Dad’s Halo Effect' by Ryan Gander, was bolted to the pavement in Beswick, a mile east of Manchester centre in an area formerly the blackest in the city but now home to a football stadium, a cleaned up canal and some ad hoc metal warehousing. ‘Regeneration’ is the
- [War Orphans](https://newartexaminer.net/war-orphans/) - HENRY DARGER & ART SPIEGELMAN It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure. — Joseph Campbell The fields of self-taught art/art brut (i.e., Outsider art) and sequential art (i.e., comic books/graphic novels) are areas that have been historically considered marginal to
- [NEWSPEAK](https://newartexaminer.net/newspeak/) - The Emergence of Orwellian NewSpeak in Art " In the new speculative market, it is often the quality of patronage, not the quality of the art, that determines its initial success." Words have a history and a definition. Control the definition and you control meaning and by controlling meaning you control what people understand by
- [Revitalising The New](https://newartexaminer.net/revitalising-the-new/) - The public discussion on April 12th in St Ives Cornwall UK, was jointly organized by the Penwith Society of Artists, the Belgrave Gallery, the Newlyn Society of Artists and the New Art Examiner. The theme was the perennial question of how to recognize, encourage and preserve vitality in an organization that presents art to the
- [Speakeasy](https://newartexaminer.net/speakeasy-5/) - In early February, Gloria Steinem commented to Bill Maher about Hillary Clinton’s problem getting support from younger women. Young women, she said, ask, "Where are the boys?" Of course, Steinem took a big hit for saying that but,if Maher had asked about Clinton’s problem getting support from younger men, it would have been equally relevant
- [Laura Lovelace in St Ives](https://newartexaminer.net/laura-lovelace-in-st-ives/) - Marcel Duchamp once remarked art has its sell by date, being cynical but also wise about the marketing of art. Previous Dadaist, and cultural saboteur par excellence, he continued the anti art tradition of Dada which was a profound disquiet with the great slaughter of world and the taste and culture of those who affected
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