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Obscura No More How photography rose from the margins of the art world to occupy its vital center By Andy Grundberg American Scholar April 29, 2021 Revenge of the Goldfish by Sandy Skoglund, 1981 (© 1981, Sandy Skoglund) At the midpoint of the 20th century, anyone venturing into a gallery or museum would have been hard-pressed to find any photographs on view among the displays of paintings, draw..

The Swirl of History Julie Mehretu has created a new language for political art. BY FRED KAPLAN SLATE MARCH 25, 202 Tim Knox Julie Mehretu is the most exciting visual artist of our time and an artist who speaks compellingly to our time, not through satire or social realism, as most political artists do, but in abstract images of striking originality. Her paintings—vast canvases, many of them mor..

Golden Mummies of Egypt APOLLO 26 February 2021 Mummy mask of a man (detail; c. 100 BC), Lahun, Egypt. Photo: Julia Thorne, Tetisheri; © Manchester Museum, University of Manchester While some museums are closed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Apollo’s usual weekly pick of exhibitions will include shows at institutions that are currently open as well as digital projects providing virtual access to ..

The fine line between art and pornography By Lizzie Enfield18th September 2020 BBC For more than 100 years, activists have drawn attention to the depiction of female nudes in art. Is it time to look at them with fresh eyes, asks Lizzie Enfield. At the time the Black Lives Matter campaign in the UK was drawing the national spotlight to the statues of slave traders, another activist was highlighti..

The artist stands by her new sculpture, "Promiscuous Intimacies" (2020), which is part of her current exhibition in New York (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) - Hyperallergic誌에서 퍼 옴

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Michelangelo’s “thinking hand” by Eric Gibson The New Criterion December 2020 On Michaelangelo’s Pietà and the manifold meanings of its legendary gesture. Photo©Musei Vaticani. All rights reserved For the art historian Michael Hirst it is “one of the most familiar in the history of art”—the gesture Mary makes with her left hand in Michelangelo’s Pietà (1498–99) in Saint Peter’s Basilica in Rome...

Art After the Plague How painters through the ages have responded to contagion, pestilence, and deadly epidemics By Ingrid D. Rowland | American Scholar October 28, 2020 Triumph of Death, Campo Santo, Pisa, 14th century, by Buonamico Buffalmacco or Francesco Traini (Lanmas/Alamy) Sometime in the mid-14th century, the Dominican friars of Pisa commissioned a series of frescoes for the Gothic porti..

Ultra Detailed Close-Ups Of Michelangelo’s David by memolition · At the age of 29, Michelangelo completed what would become one of the most famous artworks of all time,David, a masterpiece of Renaissance sculpture that stands 17 ft (5.16 m) tall, weighs 12,478 lbs (5,660 kg), and was carved from a single block of Carrara marble. The sculpture was created between 1501 and 1504 and depicts the Bib..

The death of Theatre Criticism The great critics always began before they were forty. Who are their equivalents today? By David Herman The Critic 5 August, 2020 John Peter, chief theatre critic at The Sunday Times for almost twenty years, died last month. A Hungarian refugee who fled to Britain after the 1956 Uprising, he was a deeply civilised man and will be much missed. Peter worked at The Su..