Rachel Martin at the Gochman Family Collection, where she is artist-in-residence and co-curator. Weston Wells for ARTnews In one of artist Rachel Martin’s earliest memories, her mother had asked her to draw the face of a bug. “I was about three years old, and I remember her saying to me, ‘Show me how it feels …
Daniela Hritcu for ARTnews/Getty Images In 1924, amid the wreckage of the Great War, French poet André Breton railed against the values of the world as it was and could never again be, one ruled by realism and rationality. “The mere word ‘freedom’ is the only one that still excites me,” Breton wrote in his …
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Egon Schiele’s Portrait of the Artist’s Wife, 1917. A 1917 drawing by Egon Schiele is at the center of a restitution case that will soon head to court in New York. The work in question, Portrait of the Artist’s Wife (1917), depicts Edith Schiele with her hands folded in her lap. The drawing was made …
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Exterior view of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Courtesy flickr Editorial/Getty Images A Turkish judge cleared the American Museum of Natural History curator who was arrested for allegedly trying to smuggle spider and scorpion samples from Istanbul. He was released from custody after spending a night in jail. “I was completely …
Vincent Namatjira with various portraits by him, including one of Gina Rinehart, third from left in the bottom row. ©Vincent Namatjira/Copyright Agency/Photo Iwantja Arts/Courtesy the artist and Iwantja Arts Gina Rinehart, the richest person in Australia, has reportedly called on Canberra’s National Gallery of Australia to take down a painting of her by Aboriginal artist …
Visitors at the Camille Claudel exhibition at the Getty Center. Cassia Davis/Courtesy of the J. Paul Getty Trust To look upon Camille Claudel’s Torso of a Crouching Woman is to be shocked by it. Though the figure lacks a head, arms, and left knee, she is stolidly centered. The burnished bronze figure writhes, pulling the skin …
Frank Stella, 2001. The Washington Post via Getty Images Was Frank Stella a sadist? More than once, I’ve wondered that while standing before his 1959 painting Die Fahne hoch!, a rectangular abstraction that features four black forms, each of which are demarcated by unpainted lines of white that pulsate toward the center. The painting, for …
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In their research, curators including art historian Marianne Mathieu also came across evidence contradicting the belief that all Impressionist painting was executed swiftly.
In her multifaceted practice, she was prescient in subtly addressing social and political issues, such as the immigrant experience, the environment, Native American rights, and social injustice…
The structure may have served as a tomb entrance.
