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The exhibition of Titian’s six great so-called poesie for King Philip II (c. 1551-1562) that I helped organise at the National Gallery in London, and which showed in modified form at the Prado earlier this year, has now opened at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston under the title Titian: Women, Myth & Power.
From what I’ve seen in the press and online, I’m greatly impressed with their installation and didactic material they’ve put together, and it pleases me greatly to see these great Titians united in my American home away from home in Boston. I can’t wait hopefully to see it later in the autumn.
If you’re anyway near it, do go see it. It is truely and without hyperbole a once-in-a-lifetime chance. These are some of the great paintings of the Western tradition and they haven’t been seen together since the 1570s.
Vi læser en klaskker i denne episode af Radio Rackham: Will Eisners A Contract with God, eller på dansk En kontrakt med Gud, fra 1978. Den er for nylig blevet genudgivet på dansk af Fahrenheit og det gav os anledning til at vende tilbage til en banebrydende tegneserie, der står os alle nær. Ikke dermed sagt, at vi er ukritiske, men jeg håber vores begejstring kan høres.
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I dag kan man læse min anmeldelse af Sofie Riis Nors Sexmagasinet Vol. 1 i Information. Jeg er ikke særligt overbevist. Her er et uddrag:
Det drejer sig om fjerdebølgefeminisme: digitalt båren aktivisme med fokus på intersektionalitet, kønsidentitet, medie- og kapitalismekritik og sexpositivitet. Riise Nors har skabt sig et navn og en platform på Instagram med profilen @waginapineapple og samler nu i Sexmagasinet sine tanker i noget, der gerne vil være et personligt manifest, men er farligt tæt på uselvstændig virtue signalling. Det fremkalder flashbacks til halvfjerdsernes salvelsesfulde politiske kunst og agitprop.
Konceptet er en art talkshow, hvor tegneserieudgaven af Riise Nors er vært og inviterer forskellige, ofte virkelige, personligheder : instagrammeren @faux.rich, Suzanne Brøgger, Cardi B, Edgar Allan Poe, Lars von Trier : i studiet, enten for at forklare aspekter af sit feministiske verdensbillede eller for at latterliggøre dem for deres forkerte meninger.
Tegneserien kan checkes for her.
Postponed by Covid, the exhibition La forma del tempo (‘The Shape of Time’) at the Poldi Pezzoli in Milan finally opened last month and runs till 27 September. Centred around the museum’s extraodinary collection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century clocks, it examines conceptions of time in the renaissance as expressed in the visual arts. The National Gallery has lent Titian’s Allegory of Prudence, a picture that grapples with issues of family, succession, memory and time through a creative interpretation of a traditional iconography that represents time in the form of three heads, either human or animal. Anyway, I wrote the entry for the painting and would encourage readers who are in MIlan or find themselves there to go see the show. It looks fascinating. Check our Works section for info on the catalogue.