Monthly Archives: August 2014

Soul on Fire

comics and cartooning, commentary and criticismBy Matthias Wivel 18 August 2014

This review is was originally published in Danish at Rackham in 2004 and is reprinted here as a supplement to the short essay Yvan Alagbé’s comics that I’ve just published over at The Comics Journal. The French-Belgian publishing structure Ã‰ditions Frémok, or FRMK for short, has now been in the game for ten years, initially…

Hype: Titian’s Early Portrait of a Man in Copenhagen

commentary and criticism, hype & linkage, pictorial artsBy Matthias Wivel 1 August 2014

And they keep coming… although this is probably the last one in a while. Part of my core research as a fellow at Statens Museum for Kunst in Copenhagen centred on the early Titian portrait of an elderly man (above), which is on long loan to the gallery from Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. That the sitter…