Hobbies to boot are at occasions a fantastic indicates of creating additional acquaintances, jointly amid learning some thing at the same stage in time. Many of us only engage in a diversion in the wintry weather to fill up the bleak evenings. As for new buddies this is a extremely good way of obtaining to […]
Francoise Nielly dog paintings
Does a person love Francoise Nielly’s paintings? Do you desire to purchase a portrait painting created by this artist? I am not sure if Francoise will take a commission job. But if she does, I bet the price will be very expensive, as most of her paintings are selling for $10,000 to $30,000. Thus, generally, […]
Marcia Tucker, A Labor of Love, New York
Official Artscenecal Page of Outpost Art The companion volume to a recent exhibition at The New Museum in New York City, A Labor of Love chronicles the debates surrounding the production of arts and crafts over the last century. Discussing hierarchical categorizations of high and low, fine and folk, art and craft, insider and outsider, […]
Two recent exhibitions of Carolee Schneemann
Two recent exhibitions of performance and mixed-media artist Carolee Schneemann bring to the fore both the problematic (dis)placement of her oeuvre within art history, as well as implicit alliances between the works themselves and the construction of historical narratives. “Up To And Including Her Limits,” The New Museum retrospective of Schneemann’s work spanning almost forty […]
A solo exhibition of Rachel Whiteread
A solo exhibition of Rachel Whiteread brings five new works to North America, offering a long-awaited examination of this artist’s work. Realized over the course of the past year, the sculptures continue her exploration of spaces and objects by filling or surrounding them with plaster, rubber and resin casts. Since 1988, the artist has compiled […]
Difference and desire in American portraiture
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture surveyed almost a hundred years of queer subjectivity in American portraiture. The strong vision by co-curators Jonathan Katz and David Ward illustrated the legacy of sexual difference in art history, and the necessity of witnessing its complexities. The exhibition included significant portrait paintings of art from 19th-century artists […]
Africa in Science Fiction
Superpower: Africa in Science Fiction Curated by Nay Haq and Al Cameron The Arnolfini, Bristol, May – July 1, 2012 In this exhibition, curators Haq and Cameron present 10 not necessarily African artists who slyly critique the unabashedly Western-centric traditions of science fiction, and re-frame them via the African continent. Rejecting futurist utopianism, works like […]
The War of Images
Nearly 10 years after the phrase “war on terror” was coined, it continues to capture the attention and imagination of the American public. Despite having been retired from the lexicon with the election of Barack Obama, who opted for the phrase “overseas contingency operation,” the struggle against nameless and faceless terrorists still conjures images of […]
The art of found objects
The art of found objects–the ordinary, the unimportant, the neglected, the overlooked, as W.J.T. Mitchell describes them –often seeks to reveal some special status in items that are otherwise discardable. These include empty bottles, single buttons, inkless pens, rags–in a word, “garbage.” In this realm of discovery and redemption, the status of books is quite […]
Who is the artist?
I love this painting, just wondering who is artist behind this painting?