February 2012
20 posts
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artinamericamagazine.com
W O R D S F O R A R T m e l b o c h n e r
“did conceptual artists usher art into the realm of language or… did the fact that art had already become linguistic allow certain artist to invent a practice that could be called conceptual art?”
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artinamericamagazine.com
L I V E S O F T H E A R T I S T S
“during the third quarter of the 20th century, the New Yorker - characterized by intellectual assurance, cultural breadth and refreshing clarity - played a central role in defining late modern taste.”
G O S E E sanja ivekovic: sweet violence
Museum of Modern Art through March 26, 2012
croatian feminist ‘Nova Umjetnicka Praksa’ artist, Sanja Ivekovic’s first exhibition in the United States touches on “when artists broke free form mainstream institutional settings, laying the ground for a form of praxis antipodal to official art… she focused on the transformation of reality from socialist to post-socialist political systems.” more here.
check out last week’s GO SEE.
images by MATERIAL LUST
I N S I D E w i t h M A T E R I A L L U S T
Christian Lopez Swafford’s mother’s teacher, Anne Truitt has been a generational inspiration for MATERIAL LUST as we go INSIDE American artist Truitt’s 40 works on paper at the Matthew Marks Gallery in New York. Popularly known for her minimalist vertical sculptures, Truitt said, “i’ve struggled all my life to get maximum meaning in the simplest possible form”. Her commitment to exploring the relationship of line and form is further simplified through her works on paper in pencil and acrylic color fields. Take a look INSIDE.
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amazon.com
A N N E T R U I T T: p e r c e p t i o n a n d r e f l e c t i o n
“i thought to myself, ‘if i make a sculpture, it will just stand up straight and the seasons will go around it and the light will go around it and it will record time.”
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amazon.com
J U D I T H T U R N E R: photographs five architects
“there exists between the acts of looking and seeing, like a barely visible fault-line, the act of knowing.” introduction.
