“I’M in Hollywood,” Salvador Dalí wrote in a postcard to André Breton in 1937, “where I’ve made contact with the three American surrealists, Harpo Marx, Disney and Cecil B. DeMille.” “One always more or less believes to have ‘dreamed’ it when one recalls Claudette Colbert bathing in a pool filled with asses’ milk at the [...]
artdaily Forty-six powerful works by internationally acclaimed sculptor Martin Puryear (b. 1941) will be on view at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, in the artist’s first retrospective in the United States in more than a decade. Martin Puryear includes sculptures dating from 1976 to the present, including one monumental work created especially for the [...]
Artdaily The Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza is opening the exhibition Miró: Earth. It offers a totally innovative presentation of the work of Joan Miró that focuses on a recurrent concept in the artist’s work: the earth. For the first time this theme will be the subject of a major monographic exhibition covering Miró’s entire career from 1918, [...]
“I’ve always wanted to be different since I was a kid, and I’ve always been knocked around for it” (eight years later) (2002) by Hiroh Kikai N.Y. Times By the International Center of Photography’s own standards, “Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video From Japan” feels a bit phoned in. But with 13 artists, most of [...]
N.Y. Times “Roy Lichtenstein: Girls,” at the Gagosian Gallery, presents 12 of Lichtenstein’s early paintings of the female creatures otherwise known as women. Based on cartoons and mostly blond, they are anonymous, beautiful and often unhappily bothered, usually by men. Or, if you like, by boys.
Telegraph.co.uk The Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition is now in its 240th year. Sexy Japanese Garden, Vincent Hawkins, acrylic on canvas
N.Y. Times. Twenty-four hours before Art Basel’s invitation-only opening on Tuesday, scores of the art elite gathered, sheeplike, on a wooden ramp at a related event in a cavernous installation space. Word had spread that there was something exciting to see: a dusty old train car whose windows flashed black-and-white images of troubled moments from [...]