The holidays are nearly here, and so is Part 1 of Andrea Kirsh’s annual round up of the best in art books, including an art book tour of historical artist homes and studios (including some local ones), a contemporary painting book for art loves of all kinds, and an enlightening look at 20th century art!
Read MoreArtblog contributor Michael Lieberman reviews “Rising Voices,” an (now closed) exhibition of ten finalists of the Bennett Prize- a $50,000 prize for women figurative realist painters, awarded biennially.
Read MoreIn the face of COVID-19, Artblog is hosting an open call, non-juried, first come first-served online exhibition entitled “Artists in the time of Coronavirus.”
Read MoreSusan Isaacs says the anxiety present in the works in “Monsters and Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s” at the Baltimore Museum of Art speaks to our times.
Read MoreThe absurdities that Magritte quietly broadcast are possible in this and any universe; meaning, one realizes, is ultimately in flux. But Berger and Magritte charge the viewer with the responsibility of working out the real, and ultimately that which is critical and consequential. How to do that, how to decode reality? Perhaps only with our greatest tool and its full arsenal of flavors: language. Language, which got us in trouble to begin with.
Read MoreJudith Stein’s 20-year labor of love, the book “Eye of the Sixties,” came out this summer and it’s great. The biography follows the life of enigmatic gallerist, Richard Bellamy, from his rise from college dropout/lost boy/self-taught poet and art lover in the 1950s to the global tastemaker he had become in the 1960s and 70s to his death in 1998 at age 70.
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