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Book Review
Contact: Art and the Pull of Print
12/2024 | 1461 | 166
Pages: 1286
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Salsbury, Britany (Salsbury, Britany)
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Printmakers / Prints / Techniques / American art / Contemporary art
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Contact: Art and the Pull of Print By Jennifer L. Roberts. 232 pp. incl. 117 col. + 14 b. & w. ills. (Princeton University Press, 2024), £35. ISBN 978–0–691–25585–9. | :
Book Review
Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art
10/2024 | 1459 | 166
Pages: 1092–3
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Reviewer:
Heardman, Adam (Heardman, Adam)
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subjects:
Contemporary art / Text / Semiotics / Language / Digital technology
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Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art Edited by Simon Hunegs et al. with an introduction by Evan Moffitt. 288 pp. incl. 525 col. + b. & w. ills. (Phaidon, London and New York, 2024), £49.95. ISBN 978–1–83866–546–3. | :
Exhibition Review
Anselm Kiefer: Fallen Angels
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 740–2
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Reviewer:
Lai, Alyson (Lai, Alyson)
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artists:
Kiefer, Anselm
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
subjects:
German art / Contemporary art
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Anselm Kiefer: Fallen Angels Palazzo Strozzi, Florence 22nd March–21st July | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
18. Luzifer, by Anselm Kiefer. 2012–23. Emulsion, oil, acrylic, shellac, gold leaf, sediment of electrolysis, fabric and photographic print on canvas, 3.3 by 7.6 m. (© Anselm Kiefer; photograph Ela Bialkowska; exh. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence).
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19. Engelssturz, by Anselm Kiefer. 2022–23. Emulsion, oil, acrylic, shellac, gold leaf, fabric, sediment of electrolysis and charcoal on canvas, 7.5 by 8.4 m. (© Anselm Kiefer; photograph Ela Bialkowska; exh. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence).
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20. Verstrahlte Bilder, by Anselm Kiefer. 1983– 2023. 60 painting elements and mirrors, overall dimensions 6 by 14.82 by 6.73 m. (© Anselm Kiefer; photograph Ela Bialkowska; exh. Palazzo Strozzi, Florence).
Exhibition Review
Venice Biennale
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 724–27
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Lloyd, Kathryn (Lloyd, Kathryn)
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dates:
2020-2030
places:
Venice
subjects:
Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy / Contemporary art / Modern art / Immigration / Exiled artists / Homosexuality / Decolonisation
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Venice Biennale Various locations, Venice 20th April–24th November | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
1. Kissing my foot, by Louis Fratino. 2024. Oil on canvas, 144.8 by 198.1 cm. (Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia; photograph Matteo de Mayda; exh. Central Pavilion, Giardini, Venice).
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2. Installation view of Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere at the Central Pavilion, Giardini, Venice, showing 25 works from the series Bambus, by Ione Saldanha. 1960–70s. Acrylic on bamboo, dimensions variable. (Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia; photograph Matteo de Mayda).
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3. Installation view of Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere at the Arsenale, Venice. (Courtesy La Biennale di Venezia; photograph Marco Zorzanello).
Exhibition Review
Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, Valencia
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 418–419
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Reviewer:
Saumarez Smith, Charles (Saumarez Smith, Charles; Smith, Charles Saumarez)
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dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, Valencia, Spain
subjects:
Art museums / Contemporary art
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Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, Valencia From November 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
29. Façade of the Palacio de Valeriola, Valencia. 18th century. (Photograph Pedro Pegenaute).
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30. Installation view of Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, Valencia, 2023, showing Corona Australis 38.89, by Tomás Saraceno. 2023. Stainless steel, fishing line and iridescent plexiglass.
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31. Installation view of Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, Valencia, 2023, showing Landline heat, by Sean Scully. 2023. Stained glass.
Exhibition Review
Beyond the Page: South Asian Miniature Painting and Britain, 1600 to Now
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 408–411
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Reviewer:
Khan, Zahra (Khan, Zahra)
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dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
The Box, Plymouth, Great Britain
subjects:
South Asia / Miniatures (paintings) / Mughal / Contemporary art
Illustrations
Attributed works:
20. Because you’re worth it II, by the Singh Twins. 2022. Digital dyed fabric lightbox, 180 by 180 cm. (© The Singh Twins; private collection; exh. the Box, Plymouth).
Attributed works:
21. A lover waiting for his beloved, by Imran Qureshi. 1999. Gouache on paper, 25.4 by 19.1 cm. (Private collection; exh. the Box, Plymouth).
Non-western art unattributed:
22. The delivery of presents for Prince Dara- Shukoh’s wedding in December 1632. c.1640. Watercolour and metallic paints on paper, 33 by 23 cm. (Royal Collection, HM King Charles III; exh. the Box, Plymouth).
Exhibition Review
Making New Worlds: Li Yuanchia & Friends
02/2024 | 1451 | 166
Pages: 201–205
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Reviewer:
Bolwell, Sarah (Bolwell, Sarah)
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artists:
Li, Yuan-chia / Nicholson, Winifred / Hepworth, Barbara / Hsiao Chin / Takis (Panayiotis Vassilakis) / Goldsworthy, Andy / Gabo, Naum / Schendel, Mira / Tan, Aaron / Ndiritu, Grace
artists:
Lijn, Liliane / Wakely, Shelagh
museums and institutions:
Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge, Great Britain
subjects:
Twentieth-century art / Contemporary art
subjects:
Chinese art
Reviewed Items
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Making New Worlds: Li Yuanchia & Friends Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge 11th November 2023–18th February 2024 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
27. Road along the Roman wall (landscape with two houses), by Winifred Nicholson. 1926. Oil on canvas, 126.5 by 189.5 cm. (Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge; courtesy Trustees of Winifred Nicholson).
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28. Installation view of Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends at Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, 2023–24. (Photograph Jo Underhill).
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29. Untitled, by Li Yuan-chia. 1994. Hand-coloured photographic print, 40.5 by 43.5 cm. (Courtesy Li Yuan-chia Foundation; exh. Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge).
Exhibition Review
Buffalo AKG Art Museum
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 87–91
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Pergam, Elizabeth (Pergam, Elizabeth)
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dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, United States / Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, United States
subjects:
Art museums / Architecture / Collections / Collections, Public / Modernism / Modern Art / Contemporary art / French art / American art / Abstract Expressionism / Pop art
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Buffalo AKG Art Museum From June 2023 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
29. Buffalo AKG Art Museum: from left to right, the Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building, the Albright Bridge and the Robert and Elizabeth Wilmers Building. (Photograph Marco Cappelletti).
Attributed works:
30. The Ralph Wilson Town Square at Buffalo AKG Art Museum, showing Common Sky, by Studio Other Spaces (Olafur Eliasson and Sebastian Behmann). 2022. (Photograph Marco Cappelletti).
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31. A gallery in the Robert and Elizabeth Wilmers Building at Buffalo AKG Art Museum with, in the foreground, two sculptures by Auguste Rodin, Eve (After the Fall) (1881), and The Age of Bronze (1875–76, cast 1911). (Photograph Marco Cappelletti).
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32. Installation view of Clyfford Still: A Legacy for Buffalo in the Jeffrey E. Gundlach Building, Buffalo AKG Museum of Art, 2023. (Photograph Marco Cappelletti).
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33. A gallery in the Robert and Elizabeth Wilmers Building at the Buffalo AKG Museum of Art, showing, from left to right, Lovers, by Rosalyn Drexler (1963); Tom Thumb, by Marisol (1997); 100 cans, by Andy Warhol (1962); and Head – Red and Yellow, by Roy Lichtenstein (1962). (Photograph Marco Cappelletti).
Book Review
Writing After Art: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Artists
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1373–1374
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Reviewer:
Schreyach, Michael (Schreyach, Michael)
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art literature:
Essays
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Art criticism / Contemporary art / Modern art / Philosophy / Perception
Reviewed Items
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Writing After Art: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Artists By Richard Shiff. 696 pp. incl. 64 col. ills. (David Zwirner Books, New York, 2023), £40. ISBN 978–1–64423–048–0. | :
Book Review
The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1241-1243
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Reviewer:
Lloyd, Kathryn (Lloyd, Kathryn)
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art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
museums and institutions:
National Gallery of Art, Washington, United States
subjects:
Modern art / Contemporary art / Art theory / Visual culture
subjects:
Copies / Reproductions / Photography / Sculpture / Installations (visual works) / Paintings
Reviewed Items
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The Double: Identity and Difference in Art since 1900 By James Meyer, with contributions by Julia Bryan-Wilson, Tom Gunning, Hillel Schwartz, Shawn Michelle Smith and Andrew Solomon. 288 pp. incl. 140 col. + 60 b. & w. ills. (Princeton University Press and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2022), £52. ISBN 978–0–691–23617–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
7. Allie Mae Burroughs, Hale County, Alabama, by Walker Evans. 1936. Gelatin silver print, 24.3 by 19.2 cm. (Private collection).
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8. After Walker Evans: 4, by Sherrie Levine. 1981. Gelatin silver print, 12.8 by 9.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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9. Stills from Left side / right side, by Joan Jonas. 1972. Black-and-white video, duration 8 minutes 50 seconds. (Courtesy Electronic Arts Intermix, New York).
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