I’ve just returned from a short visit to Berlin where I had the opportunity to visit the German iteration of the large Sebastiano del Piombo retrospective that showed in Rome earlier this summer. Since the article I wrote after having seen it there was a more general assessment of Sebastiano’s art and career, I figured…
For lige at trutte i mit eget horn, vil jeg anmode læsere af Weekendavisen om i denne uge at kaste et blik på den originale, danske version (med mindre revisioner) af min herværende artikel om Sebastiano del Piombo, og samtidig varmt anbefale at se den store retrospektive udstilling af hans værker, der pt. er opsat…
Been away from the screen for a couple of days, so no Picks this week. There’s stuff coming soon, but in the meantime, I thought I’d just take the opportunity to recommend the major retrospective of Danish painter Wilhelm (Hammershøi’s 1864-1916) work at the Royal Academy in London (till September 7, after that Tokyo), the…
Til vore norske læsere vil jeg lige benytte lejligheden til at hype både mig selv og — især — den bog, jeg i har anmeldt i denne uges udgave af Morgenbladet: Pushwagners Soft City (kræver desværre abonnement at læse). Serien, der er fra starten af 70erne udgør på det nærmeste et blåtryk for den nu…
If you’re in Copenhagen, you should definitely consider going to this show at V1 Gallery which opens on Friday and runs until August 2. For those of you interested in cartooning, I should point out that it includes work from such current luminaries as the freshly inventive Marc Bell, the compellingly suggestive Jenni Rope, Rocky…
“I see Benjamins and a billion other big head people/ I’m a natural born hustler, Marcy Projects motherfucker/ Turned professional journalist reportin, live from the gutter/ My girl, carry boxcutters, rubbers, shoot up with undercovers screamin’/ FUCK THE WORLD, why, cause, don’t nobody love us/ Shawn Carter, Sean Bell, what’s the difference? Do tell/ 50…
At moment there’s a rare chance to see a little-known work by Titian in London. Partridge Fine Art is displaying a Saint Sebastian from his hand as part of a a major show of old master paintings (runs till July 18). I haven’t yet been, but I’m familiar with the picture, which I’ve seen in…
The picks of the week from around the web. Uncut.com: Keith Shocklee. Following up from our recent write-up of Public Enemy’s 20th Anniversary performance of It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold us Back in London, here’s a fine, recent interview with Bomb Squad founding member and beatmaker extraordinaire Keith Shocklee: part one, part…
There is a distinct sense of hesitation to the work of the Italian Renaissance painter Sebastiano del Piombo (1485-1547). In spite of a high level of craft and an acute visual sensibility, many of his pictures are characterised by a searching insecurity, which also seems reflected in his notoriously low rate of productivity. According to…
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On Monday, one of the greatest artists of the latter half of the 20th Century, the uncontainable creativo Robert Rauschenberg, died. He was 82 and active to the end, leaving us a massive and singular body of work. Art as beauty, keenly reminding us that it is no different from Our World as such. One…
The picks of the week from around the web. The New York Times: Frank Rich turns in a brilliant column on the perceived constituency and chances of election of John McCain in this autumn’s presidential election. As usual, a thought-provoking corrective to the steady media drone about the Democratic primaries. More on the 50’s comics…
This 2006 essay, posted here to supplement the review of the Spring 2008 Titian show in Venice, is an attempt, firstly, to analyze the loose finish of Titian’s late pictures as a natural development in his art with roots as far back as the beginning of his career, and, secondly, to provide a contemporary theoretical…
You in Washington DC? Have time this evening? Go to the opening of ZaMZaM Arts’ latest show, featuring work by Laura Falzon, Sangbin Im, Richard Jochum, Kevork Mourad, Aphrodite Desiree Navab, and Sarah Siddiqui, at the Touchstone Gallery. Prime mover of the project, Siddiqui, is a good friend and a firebrand organiser — her project…
The picks of the week from around the web. Been busy this week, so not much of a selection this time around. However check these out: Get your Rusty Brown on with the Legion of Lego Superheroes (above). How many of them do you recognize, without looking at the Cliff’s notes? The Comic Book scare…