The FBI repatriated some 48 illegally trafficked cultural artifacts to the Egyptian government at a ceremony last Friday in Los Angeles. Among the artifacts were carved figures, amulets, and tomb equipment; they date variously to the Pharaonic, Roman, and Coptic periods, thus spanning from 3,100 BCE to the 9th century CE. “These handed-over artifacts represent an integral part of the history and cultural heritage of Egypt and its people, and we are very glad and honored to bring those home,” Egyptian ambassador Hossam Eldeen Aly said in a press release. “Egypt looks forward to more constructive and solid bilateral cooperation in the cultural field and beyond.” The tip came from the owner, who contacted...
A horse named Champagne is the star of a new public mural in Michigan commissioned by the Detroit Institute of the Arts (DIA). Wrapping around two exterior walls of the mane-tenance barn in the animal's home in Waterford Township, “Champagne's Chateau” was commemorated on Saturday, August 22, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony and meet-and-greet with Champagne herself.One of eight murals that will be debuted across the Detroit metro area this year as part of the DIA's Partners in Public Art Program (PIPA), the work is installed in Waterford's Hess-Hathaway Park, a 165-acre community park comprised of trails and an "animal exhibit farm" housing horses, chickens, goats, sheep, peacocks, and...
The Smithsonian Institution's board will meet next Monday, August 31, to vote on housing the National Museum of the American Latino (NMAL) in the Smithsonian's recently reopened Arts & Industries Building, as reported in the Washington Examiner and confirmed by the New York Times. The move would allow the fledgling museum to move forward in the face of the Trump administration's threats to defund the project altogether. Establishing the NMAL in the historic Arts & Industries Building would allow the Smithsonian to bypass congressional approval, which was an initial requirement under the original plan to build out a new space for the museum on or near the National Mall, because those parcels of...
An experiment born from ecology and the space age
In 1991, eight people entered Biosphere 2, a vast glass enclosure in the Arizona desert designed to test whether humans could live inside a materially closed ecosystem. Conceived by Space Biospheres Ventures as both an experiment in ecological engineering and a possible prototype for long-duration space habitation, the complex brought rainforest, savanna, desert, ocean, agriculture, laboratories, and living quarters under one envelope. What happened inside over the following two years was an unusually revealing account of how ecological, architectural, technological, and human systems become entangled when there is nowhere else to go.
exterior view of the...
In 1991, eight people entered Biosphere 2, a vast glass enclosure in the Arizona desert designed to test whether humans could live inside a materially closed ecosystem. Conceived by Space Biospheres Ventures as both an experiment in ecological engineering and a possible prototype for long-duration space habitation, the complex brought rainforest, savanna, desert, ocean, agriculture, laboratories, and living quarters under one envelope. What happened inside over the following two years was an unusually revealing account of how ecological, architectural, technological, and human systems become entangled when there is nowhere else to go.
exterior view of the...
The European Union Agency for Law Enforcement Cooperation (Europol) today issued a so-called spotlight report revealing concerning trends in museum crimes across the continent. The report, whose contents are summarized at intelligence and regulatory tracking platform Insight EU Monitoring, comes on the heels of last October’s high-profile broad-daylight jewel theft at the Louvre in Paris as well as a spate […]
The FBI’s Los Angeles Field Office returned forty-eight Egyptian cultural artifacts to their country of origin in a repatriation ceremony last Friday, the organization announced in a press release. The ongoing investigation into the objects, which is being conducted alongside analysis from the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, has determined that the suspected trafficker of […]
The graduate admissions team at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago has prepared a variety of events to assist students as they prepare a competitive application to their graduate programs. Join these virtual or in-person events over the coming months to learn more about graduate degrees at SAIC and get all of your questions answered! See details and RSVP at saic.edu/greventsVirtual Events8/25/26 Architecture & Design Programs Deep Dive 12 p.m. CT8/25/26 Low-Residency MFA Program Deep Dive 6 p.m. CT9/1/26 MA Programs Deep Dive 12 p.m. CT9/15/26 Application Prep Series: Statement of Intent 12 p.m. CT9/22/26 Application Prep Series: Portfolio Overview 12 p.m. CT9/26/26 Graduate National Portfolio Day...
A stolen Pablo Picasso etching has been returned to a Milwaukee art dealer eight years after its theft, the Associated Press reported. The artwork is one of 30 known Torero prints by Pablo Picasso dated to 1949, and belonged to Bill DeLind of DeLind Fine Art Appraisals in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. At the time of its theft in 2018, it was valued between $35,000 and $50,000. Today, it likely meets the high estimate, according to the report. Swiped from the DeLind Fine Art Appraisals under mysterious circumstance, the artwork resurfaced thanks to Milwaukee landlord Tim Dertz. He found the print hanging in the apartment of an evicted tenant, with “tons of dust across the top of it”, he told local television...
In the mid-1980s, as the AIDS crisis simmered hotter and hotter in the apartments and bathhouses of New York, a band of frightened, fed-up young men took to copy shops around town. They were watching friends, partners, and lovers waste away with a mysterious virus, blamefully dubbed the “Gay Plague” by some. These kids knew what they were doing when they took jobs at Kinko's. Clandestinely running the printers after hours — a so-far-indifferent corporate America owed the public more than the cost of a couple print-outs, they reasoned — they produced graphically stark, zanily colored flyers, posters, and stickers. In other words, a PR toolkit. Then, they wheat-pasted New York with abandon,...
The Smithsonian’s board of regents is set to meet on August 31 to discuss the possibility of designating a building that it already owns as the new home of the National Museum of the American Latino in Washington, DC, per reports. Choosing to house the forthcoming museum in the Arts and Industries Building would enable the Smithsonian to […]
wittman estes revisits le corbusier’s idea of the minimum cell
On Washington’s Blakely Island, Wittman Estes has built a 400-square-foot guest house around an architectural question that goes back much further than the current tiny-house boom. The studio cites Thoreau’s Walden Cabin alongside Le Corbusier’s Cabanon, the compact retreat completed at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in 1952. The latter offers the more specific design lineage.
Fondation Le Corbusier describes the 15-square-meter Cabanon as an ‘archetype of the minimum cell,’ a tiny timber interior developed according to the proportions of the Modulor and compressed around the essentials of a summer retreat.
Wittman Estes takes that...
On Washington’s Blakely Island, Wittman Estes has built a 400-square-foot guest house around an architectural question that goes back much further than the current tiny-house boom. The studio cites Thoreau’s Walden Cabin alongside Le Corbusier’s Cabanon, the compact retreat completed at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin in 1952. The latter offers the more specific design lineage.
Fondation Le Corbusier describes the 15-square-meter Cabanon as an ‘archetype of the minimum cell,’ a tiny timber interior developed according to the proportions of the Modulor and compressed around the essentials of a summer retreat.
Wittman Estes takes that...
The Kvareli Foundation for Contemporary Art, a private institution founded by Georgian businessman and collector Jemal Inaishvili, will open to the public on October 31. Located in Kvareli, in the Kakheti region of eastern Georgia, the foundation is devoted to the preservation and exhibition of Georgian contemporary art, as well as to its study and […]
The Wolf Kahn Foundation now has a permanent home in Manhattan. Opening on August 24 for visits by appointment only, the Wolf Kahn Foundation and Archives has taken up residence at 134 West 26th Street. Wolf Kahn (1927-2020) was an important member of the second generation of New York School artists, known for his blending […]
To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Good morning! Diego Maradona’s infamous “Hand of God” soccer ball has sold for £2.5 million ($3.4 million) at auction. After scammers stole nearly €700,000 ($816,600) from Estonia’s Artists’ Association, artists donated 124 works to an emergency auction. Canada’s Indigenous Art Center says 111 works from its federal collection of more than 5,000 Indigenous artworks are unaccounted for. The Headlines GOAL DIGGER. Diego Maradona’s infamous “Hand of God” soccer ball has sold for £2.5 million ($3.4 million) at auction, 40 years after the Argentina captain used it to score one of...
The Kherson Regional Art Museum in Ukraine is the latest casualty in Russia’s ongoing war with the country. A Russian strike last Thursday set off a fire at the institution, Reuters reports. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine said that there were no casualties, but the museum’s building and artwork took a big hit as firefighters tried to put out the fire. According to a report by United24, the Ukrainian government–run platform, the fire destroyed the museum’s historic plasterwork, parquet flooring, furniture, and books, as well as the building’s electrical and heating infrastructure. The State Emergency Service of Ukraine and Kherson Regional Art Museum did not immediately reply to a request...
President Donald Trump’s ambitions of building a luxury ballroom with an underground military complex beneath it is going forward. On Friday, the US Supreme Court gave the green light for construction of the White House ballroom to continue. The stay was issued by Chief Justice John Roberts and will remain until further action from the court. “The Military/Ballroom Complex being built on the hallowed grounds of the White House, which is so vital for National Security, will be THE GREATEST OF ITS KIND!,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. “It is something that Presidents have wanted for 150 years, and that the Military has been seeking for the last 100 years. Their wish will soon be fulfilled!” The $400...
Mackenzie, who was made a peer in July, previously led various performing arts festivals and theatres in the UK and abroad, and was most recently director of arts at the British Council
Drawn to the juxtapositions of urban spaces and desolate regions alike, photographer Luca Battaglia illuminates the distinctive characteristics of places. “I do not claim—nor do I ever say—that I am an architectural photographer,” he says in a statement. “When asked, I say that I am a photographer of places, of voids.” From the expanses of the American Southwest to images of New York City that revel in quietude rather than its signature boisterousness, built environments are a well of inspiration. In his ongoing series Ticket non remboursable (“non-refundable ticket”), Battaglia creates bold portraits of carousels in city squares and parks across Europe. The advent of these iconic amusement...
Grounded in Grain, Washed in the Water, curated by Lauren Jackson Harris, explores ancestral narratives and the enduring relationships between land, water, memory, and Black life in the American South. Bringing together the work of Maya Freelon, Corey Alston, christa david, and Derrick Beasley, this collaborative exhibition between the Halsey Institute of Contemporary Art and the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture considers how ancestral knowledge is carried across generations. Maya Freelon, Family Tree, 2024, Tissue paper and ink mono photo print, 30 x 20 inches. Rooted in resilience, creativity, and connection, this exhibition explores how the past traverses the body, the...
Jae K Kim revisits lost Timbercraft of East Asia
At a moment when timber is once again reshaping global architectural practice, Timbercraft: Lost Tectonics from East Asia revisits the enduring legacy of traditional East Asian wooden construction. Written by architect and researcher Jae K Kim, the book examines nine landmark buildings across China, Japan, and Korea spanning more than 1,400 years. It traces the evolution of these sophisticated structural systems through intricate joinery, complex bracket assemblies, and interlocking components, revealing how traditional methods can inform contemporary architecture. Cover (photo by Rick Keus)
To make this complex body of knowledge accessible, the...
At a moment when timber is once again reshaping global architectural practice, Timbercraft: Lost Tectonics from East Asia revisits the enduring legacy of traditional East Asian wooden construction. Written by architect and researcher Jae K Kim, the book examines nine landmark buildings across China, Japan, and Korea spanning more than 1,400 years. It traces the evolution of these sophisticated structural systems through intricate joinery, complex bracket assemblies, and interlocking components, revealing how traditional methods can inform contemporary architecture. Cover (photo by Rick Keus)
To make this complex body of knowledge accessible, the...
The Light in Durham—formerly the Durham Light Infantry Museum and Art Gallery—has reopened following £17m redevelopment
Meticulously cut wooden panels, semi-precious beads, and layered thread and cordage transform into intricate geometric reliefs by Nosheen Iqbal. The Dallas-based artist draws on her background in product design and illustration to create chromatic works that tap into craft, nature, and ancestry. Taking inspiration from her Pakistani heritage and the immanently ornate forms of Islamic architecture and ornament, Iqbal combines wood, which she might associate with building, with textile-related media like fiber and beads. The resulting compositions are elegant meditations on the power of pattern to connect us to culture, family, and familiarity. “Sarghoshiaan” (2025), wood, cotton fiber, and semi-precious...
Ibrahim Rayintakath
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Ibrahim Rayintakath on Instagram
Ibrahim Rayintakath’s Website
Ibrahim Rayintakath on Instagram
Without proper written agreements, consigners sometimes find themselves in a protracted and costly process
ANN VERONICA JANSSENS BRINGS PERCEPTION TO GINZA
For her first solo exhibition in Japan, Ann Veronica Janssens is taking over Le Forum at Ginza Maison Hermès in Tokyo with things that are notoriously difficult to hang on a wall: light, air, time and perception itself. Titled 5 Chome 4-1 Ginza, Tokyo after the building’s own address, the exhibition opens on September 11, 2026, and brings together more than ten works conceived around the physical conditions of the space, alongside pieces from the artist’s ongoing practice since the 1990s.
Born in Folkestone in 1956 and based in Brussels, Janssens has spent decades testing how little an artwork might need in order to completely reorganize a room. After...
For her first solo exhibition in Japan, Ann Veronica Janssens is taking over Le Forum at Ginza Maison Hermès in Tokyo with things that are notoriously difficult to hang on a wall: light, air, time and perception itself. Titled 5 Chome 4-1 Ginza, Tokyo after the building’s own address, the exhibition opens on September 11, 2026, and brings together more than ten works conceived around the physical conditions of the space, alongside pieces from the artist’s ongoing practice since the 1990s.
Born in Folkestone in 1956 and based in Brussels, Janssens has spent decades testing how little an artwork might need in order to completely reorganize a room. After...
cinderclock treats the alarm clock as a standalone computer
Endothermal Systems’ CinderClock is a 3D printed standalone desktop alarm clock designed to keep the phone away from sleep and morning routines. Measuring 140 × 160 × 170 mm, the device combines a 3.12-inch monochrome OLED display with a joystick, tactile buttons, a 100 mm arcade button, removable battery cells, local audio storage, and environmental sensors, and performs without connecting to an app or subscription service.
The project grew from the designers’ frustration with using smartphones as alarm clocks. Their response is to reconsider what an alarm clock needs to be. The team established three principles at the outset: the device...
Endothermal Systems’ CinderClock is a 3D printed standalone desktop alarm clock designed to keep the phone away from sleep and morning routines. Measuring 140 × 160 × 170 mm, the device combines a 3.12-inch monochrome OLED display with a joystick, tactile buttons, a 100 mm arcade button, removable battery cells, local audio storage, and environmental sensors, and performs without connecting to an app or subscription service.
The project grew from the designers’ frustration with using smartphones as alarm clocks. Their response is to reconsider what an alarm clock needs to be. The team established three principles at the outset: the device...
Tra tutte le edizioni di Documenta, quella che si tenne nel 1972, dal titolo Interrogare la realtà – Mondi dell’immagine oggi, apriva una significativa riflessione sui linguaggi dell’arte contemporanea, il mondo reale e le sue rappresentazioni. Il titolo che il curatore Harald Szeemann scelse per la manifestazione risulta quanto mai contemporaneo, permettendo di consideralo come una valida prospettiva per scoprire lo studio dell’artista Luca Valerio (Fondi, Latina, 1966). È evidente come Interrogare la realtà – Mondi dell’immagine oggi presupponga una ricerca artistica che presenta elementi riconducibili all’arte concettuale, quindi caratterizzata da un rigoroso controllo formale e...
Bayreuth’s AI-powered “Ring 100010110” marred a first-rate cast and orchestra with nightmarish visuals and horrid dramaturgy.
Through vivid sculptural paintings, Los Angeles-based artist Estefania Ajcip peers in on the fractures families face when split apart. Ajcip spent much of her childhood in Guatemala, while her father worked in L.A. and missed pivotal moments of her youth. In a new body of work titled Folded Memories, the artist contends with this adolescent experience, extrapolating her recollections into poignant compositions filled with a longing for connection. From birch plywood, papier mache, small LED lights, and acrylic, Ajcip constructs a surreal world in which childhood grief and dreams converge. She often works from family photos, pulling scenes and objects from her home and pushing them into a fantastical realm....
Hyper Reality è il titolo-tema dell’undicesima edizione del Festival curato a Forlì da Vertov Project. Prologo alla Fondazione Dino Zoli con la mostra collettiva Interference, che riunisce dodici artiste internazionali nel segno dell’interferenza come forza generativa. Forlì torna a essere una Babele di stimoli e visioni, grazie a Ibrida Festival Internazionale delle Arti Intermediali: l’undicesima edizione, dal titolo-tema Hyper Reality, è in programma dal 17 al 20 settembre. Prologo essenziale e complementare sarà la mostra collettiva intermediale Interference, che dall’1 settembre all’11 ottobre metterà in dialogo le ricerche radicali di dodici artiste internazionali.
Elena Bellantoni,...
Elena Bellantoni,...
La fotografia ha da lungo stabilito la propria autorità su ciò che Roland Barthes ha denominato il ça a été: la traccia di un momento reale fisicamente impressa sull’immagine. Una fotografia indica. Jiayue Wang è un’artista cinese che lavora attraverso fotografia, installazione e immagine in movimento, interrogandosi su ciò che una fotografia inizia a perdere nel momento in cui viene scattata. La sua prima mostra personale in museo, After the Image, di recente tenutasi al Rugby Art Gallery and Museum, ha spinto questa domanda fino alle estreme conseguenze, esplorando ciò che un’immagine diventa una volta che non può più assolvere la sua supposta funzione di testimoniare il reale.
Jiayue Wang,...
Jiayue Wang,...
The board of regents will discuss opening the institution inside the historic Arts and Industries Building on the National Mall—a move that could circumvent congressional approval, and president Trump
The Indigenous Art Centre has been unable to locate 111 works from its collection of more than 5,000 pieces by First Nations, Métis and Inuit artists
At ICD Brookfield Place in Dubai, a vibrant collection of smiling inflatables sprouts from a vaulted ceiling, creating a suspended pool party of colorful forms. The spirited installation is titled “Under the Sun” and the latest project by duo Craig & Karl. “We wanted to capture the warmth, vibrancy, and joy of summer—distilled into one space and experienced from within the expansive summer garden atrium. A way to bring the season indoors,” the pair write about the project. Included in the installation are hot-weather staples like flowers, beach balls, inner tubes, and of course, a radiant sun. The immersive work is a new installment in Craig & Karl’s Mateys universe, populated by a vivid array of...
Enter The Magician’s Room, and you’ll encounter a brawny horse with a serpent coiled on its back, a flock of headless birds diving into a central star, and a fluffy white rabbit framed by an unblinking circle of eyes. This surreal, liminal space is the setting for a new body of work by Paris-based Lou Benesch. On view through August 22 at Hashimoto Contemporary, the solo exhibition takes the tarot’s Magician card as a starting point. Known as a trickster-wizard who connects the heavens and earth, the mysterious figure is primed for movement and change. Benesch translates the Magician’s inclination for action and mysticism into a collection of dreamy works on found and antique materials. “The...
To make a success of the Empress in Frau ohne Schatten, it is not enough to be a fine singer and a great actress.
Il 23 novembre 1962, in una chiesa sconsacrata nel centro di Copenaghen, Alison Knowles eseguì Nivea Cream Piece for Oscar Williams. Una fotografia di quella sera è oggi al Museum of Modern Art di New York. Nella stessa serata Dick Higgins interpretò il Drip Music di George Brecht salendo su una scala – un’invenzione esecutiva che gli interpreti ripetono ancora oggi. Era la prima delle sei sere del Festum Fluxorum, il secondo festival Fluxus della storia dopo quello di Wiesbaden, pianificato da George Maciunas e organizzato sul posto da Arthur Köpcke, dalla sezione danese della società di musica contemporanea e da Knud Pedersen, che dentro quella chiesa teneva la propria biblioteca d’arte.
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Though, really, the young artists of the Merola Opera Program were more than alright in their annual showcase.
Il corpo è stato uno dei grandi dispositivi attraverso cui la modernità ha costruito immagini, identità e gerarchie dello sguardo. Per secoli il corpo femminile è stato soprattutto una superficie sottoposta alla rappresentazione: osservata, idealizzata, frammentata secondo codici estetici definiti dall’esterno. Intimate Anatomies, la mostra presentata da Hauser & Wirth a St. Moritz, propone una prospettiva diversa: indagare l’instabilità della presenza fisica e la sua resistenza a ogni definizione definitiva.
Cathy Josefowitz, Maria Lassnig, Carol Rama, “Intimate Anatomies”, installation view at Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz © Estate of Cathy Josefowitz / © Maria Lassnig Foundation / © Archivio...
Cathy Josefowitz, Maria Lassnig, Carol Rama, “Intimate Anatomies”, installation view at Hauser & Wirth St. Moritz © Estate of Cathy Josefowitz / © Maria Lassnig Foundation / © Archivio...
Lou Benesch
Lou Benesch’s Website
Lou Benesch on Instagram
Lou Benesch’s Website
Lou Benesch on Instagram
Exploring the people, places, and cultures that shape cities around the world, The City Series showcases images that respond to place not as a fixed subject, but as an idea shaped by experience, observation, and interpretation.
100 images of the city. Welcome to Cambridge.
Published by Shutter Hub Editions, and with a foreword by Alice Ryan, this beautiful collection of 100 images of Cambridge is a portrait of the city through the eyes of international photographers.
Order THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE here.
The photographers featured in THE CITY SERIES: CAMBRIDGE are: Zaklina Anderson, Robert Barcia, Viktor Barkhatov, Catherine Breslin, Tara Bucklow, Tiina Burton, Alison Carter, steven chandler, Alice...
Masanori Ushiki
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Masanori Ushiki on Instagram
Masanori Ushiki’s Website
Masanori Ushiki on Instagram
By Betty Ann Brown "The idea becomes a machine that makes the art."—Sol LeWitt Dean De Cocker creates richly conceived, exquisitely crafted, and visually delightful artworks that shuttle between abstraction and conceptual representation. He has long been drawn to machines, from bicycles to motorcycles, cars to airplanes, and formal echoes of these devices appear in his current body of work, exhibited at the Visual Arts Center in the small Central California town of Visalia. Welcome to the...
Skeletons, tombstones, and serpents. These are just a few of the iconic images pre-v ailing throughout the works of Morgan Sorensen—all relating to the themes of struggle, sadness, pain, and death. While anyone might agree that these graphic designs would all make for killer band T’s, there’s quite a bit of depth surrounding the artist’s […]
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The body is an obsession for Monica Piloni. Whether it’s a hollowed face in the Samieses series or the eerie dolls depicted in “Ilegais”, a majority of Monica Piloni’s sculptures confront the human form. And while consistently returning to the body may seem confining to some, it’s a pursuit marked by liberation for the Brazilian […]
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This article originally appeared in Hi-Fructose issue 42, which is sold out. See Matthew Grabelsky’s new solo show at Thinkspace gallery here. Matthew Grabelsky had studied tradition in Florence, lived in the cultural nuclei of Europe, but hadn’t yet found the idea that would set him apart as an artist living in the twenty-first century. […]
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By Victoria Thomas Photographer and ceramic artist Catherine (Cathy) Opie first shocked and rocked the fine art world with her self-portraits during the late 1990s. Today, her decades of work — often termed confessional — now serve as context for the far more enigmatic Holding Blue installation, on view at Regen Projects through July 3. The Los Angeles-based artist identifies as a leather dyke, lesbian cowboy, an elder, and as "Mama Cathy," with a mustachioed male alter-ego named Bo. Opie is...
“Danger” is a word often associated with the candy-colored work of Los Angeles artist Kristen Liu-Wong. Her feminine tableaus, often rendered in a bright blend of acrylics, paint pen, and marker, have particularly veered into more menacing territory in recent years. “The world is a dangerous place,” Liu-Wong says, in a June interview. “I don’t […]
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On paper, Nathan Reidt’s creatures sometimes reveal themselves through a fog of graphite. He may begin with a “vague, circle-y shape” and shade areas. “Then I just stare at it for a long time and wait for something to pop out and refine that a little and stare at it.” The Philadelphia-based artist explains by […]
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By Betty Ann Brown "Beauty comes from the balance between two and three dimensions, between abstraction and representation — I seek the equilibrium behind changing appearances."—Henri Matisse Jill sykes by Eric Minh Swenson Jill Sykes creates beautiful paintings of botanical phenomena. Like Matisse, she translates three-dimensional objects into two-dimensional images, occupying the territory between abstraction and representation to achieve balance and equilibrium. From a very early age,...
By Victoria Thomas There's something about a hanging. Whether legal or not, the visual experience seems mythic, supernatural, theatrical, and ritualistic, versus the efficiency of a swift kill. If local authorities greenlight the killing, it's called a hanging. If they don't, the hanging is extrajudicial, and it's called a lynching. Anyone with even the scantiest grasp of American history will know that our country has a sordid romance with lynching — a romance which persists. And unless...
