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Exhibition Review
Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light
01/2025 | 1462 | 167
Pages: 55-7
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Reviewer:
Kokkinen, Nina (Kokkinen, Nina)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
subjects:
Medieval art / Modern art / Mysticism / Spirituality / Spiritualism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki 4th October 2024–26th January 2025 | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
25. Installation view of Gothic Modern: From Darkness to Light at the Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, 2024, showing Man and woman, by Ejnar Nielsen. 1917–19. Oil on canvas, 305.5 by 177 cm. (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen; exh. Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki).
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26. Lucretia, by Lucas Cranach the Elder. 1530. Tempera on panel, 38 by 24.5 cm. (Sinebrychoff Art Museum, Helsinki; exh. Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki).
Attributed works:
27. By the deathbed, by Edvard Munch. 1896. Lithograph, 39.5 by 50 cm. (Finnish National Gallery; exh. Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki).
Book Review
Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World
09/2024 | 1458 | 166
Pages: 987-8
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Reviewer:
Whitfield, Sarah (Whitfield, Sarah; Whitfield, Mrs)
Subjects
artists:
Warhol, Andy
subjects:
Authentication / Andy Warhol Art Authentication Board
subjects:
American art / Modern art
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Warhol After Warhol: Power and Money in the Modern Art World by Richard Dorment. 276 pp. incl. numerous ills. (Picador, London, 2023), £20. ISBN 978–1– 5290–8149–7. | :
Exhibition Review
Venice Biennale
07/2024 | 1456 | 166
Pages: 724–27
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Reviewer:
Lloyd, Kathryn (Lloyd, Kathryn)
Subjects
dates:
2020-2030
places:
Venice
subjects:
Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy / Contemporary art / Modern art / Immigration / Exiled artists / Homosexuality / Decolonisation
Reviewed Items
subjects:
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).
Book Review
After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art
04/2024 | 1453 | 166
Pages: 434–435
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Reviewer:
Clarke, Michael (Clarke, Michael)
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art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
museums and institutions:
National Gallery, London, Great Britain
subjects:
Impressionism / Post-Impressionism / Modern art
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After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art By MaryAnne Stevens, with contributions by Maria Alambritis, Julien Domercq, Charlotte de Mille, John Milner, Daniel Sobrino Ralston, Christopher Riopelle, Camilla Smith and Sabine Wieber. 272 pp. incl. 150 col. ills. (National Gallery Global, London, 2023) £20. ISBN 978–1–85709–695–8. | :
Book Review
Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art
01/2024 | 1450 | 166
Pages: 104
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Reviewer:
Thompson, Susannah (Thompson, Susannah)
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subjects:
Scottish art / Modern art / Philosophy / French art
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Scotland and the Origins of Modern Art By Duncan Macmillan. 256 pp. incl. 100 col. + 25 b. & w. ills. (Lund Humphries, London, 2023), £50. ISBN 978–1–84822–633–3. | :
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
subjects:
Art criticism / Contemporary art / Modern art / Philosophy / Perception
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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
Piranesi and the Modern Age
11/2023 | 1448 | 165
Pages: 1239-1241
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Reviewer:
Minor, Heather Hyde (Minor, Heather Hyde)
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art literature:
Exhibition catalogues
artists:
Piranesi, Giovanni Battista
dates:
2020-2030
museums and institutions:
Nasjonalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Design, Oslo, Norway
subjects:
Italian art / Modern art / Literature / Film (cinema) / Photography
Reviewed Items
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Piranesi and the Modern Age By Victor Plahte Tschudi. 288 pp. incl. 81 col. + 25 b. & w. ills. (MIT Press, Cambridge MA, 2022), $49.95. ISBN 978–0–262–04717–3. | :
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4. The Gothic arch (pl.XIV from Carceri d’invenzione), by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. c.1749– 50. Etching and engraving, 49.4 by 63.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
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5. Kerensky ascending the Jordan Staircase, still from October: Ten Days that Shook the World, directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1927.
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6. The drawbridge (pl. VII from Carceri d’invenzione), by Giovanni Battista Piranesi. Early 1770s. Etching with engraving, 54.2 by 40.6 cm. (Royal Academy of Arts, London).
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)
Subjects
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
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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).
Attributed works:
8. After Walker Evans: 4, by Sherrie Levine. 1981. Gelatin silver print, 12.8 by 9.8 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
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).
Book Review
Modern Art for a Modern China: The Chinese Intellectual Debate, 1900–1930
10/2021 | 1423 | 163
Pages: 974-975
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Reviewer:
Bevan, Paul (Bevan, Paul)
Subjects
subjects:
Chinese art / Modern art / Art historiography / Art historians / Art history
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Modern Art for a Modern China: The Chinese Intellectual Debate, 1900–1930 By Yiyan Wang. 202 pp. incl. 19 b. & w. ills. (Routledge, London and New York, 2020), £120. ISBN 978–0–367–31271–8. | :
Book Review
Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A.
05/2021 | 1418 | 163
Pages: 480-481
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Reviewer:
Sudhalter, Adrian (Sudhalter, Adrian )
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collectors and dealers:
Arensberg, Walter C. / Arensberg, Louise S.
museums and institutions:
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, United States
places:
Los Angeles
subjects:
Collections, Private / Collecting / Collectors / Modern art / Modernism / Surrealism
Reviewed Items
subjects:
Hollywood Arensberg: Avant-Garde Collecting in Midcentury L.A. By Mark Nelson, William H. Sherman and Ellen Hoobler. 448 pp. incl. 103 col. + 227 b. & w. ills. (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, 2020),  50. ISBN 978–1–60606–666–9. | :
Illustrations
Attributed works:
8. Photograph of the dining room at 7065 Hillside Avenue, Los Angeles, showing works by Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Duchamp and Paul Klee among others, c.January 1951, by Floyd Faxon. (Philadelphia Museum of Art, Library and Archives, Arensberg Archives).
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