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A Marvelous Exhibition Looks at How Black Artists Have Dissected and Rearranged the History of European Modernism—See It Here
“Riffs and Relations: African American Artists and the European Modernist Tradition”Phillips Collection, Washington, DC What the museum says: The show “presents works by African American artists of the 20th and 21st centuries together with examples by the early 20th-century European artists with whom they engaged. “European modernist art has been an important, yet complicated influence on black […] More
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Ludo in Paris, France
French artist Ludo is back with another piece in his favorite city. The artist made the mural to mark what the world is experiencing at the moment – the virus outbreak, quarantines, confinement, the list goes on. This piece features Ludo’s trademark skull-grape design together with his signature shade of green. Take a look below at […] More
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How the Threatening Landscapes in Titian’s Fable Paintings Reveal Colonial Europe’s Hidden Fears and Fantasies
Some readers of this article will call it a fish tale, and I guess I would too. The fish in question is a black sea bass——and this is the tale of how that New World creature came to show up in , an ancient Greek myth painted in the early 1560s, in Venice, by Titian. […] More
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Meleko Mokgosi’s Virtuosic Paintings of Southern Africa Show a Different Side of the Tourism Industry—See Pictures Here
“Meleko Mokgosi: Your Trip to Africa”at the Pérez Art Museum Miami What the museum says: “Combining a high degree of painterly skill with a poetic, open-ended semiotic approach and a penchant for deep archival research, Meleko Mokgosi shines light on some of the complex socioeconomic dynamics that animate contemporary southern Africa. Whereas traditional history paintings feature […] More
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“The Rotting Apple” by The Rebel Bear in Brooklyn, New York
Scotland’s ‘Banksy’ – The Rebel Bear just finished working on this new piece entitled “The Rotting Apple”. Street artist, known as ‘The Rebel Bear’ has been creating street art over the last 3 years throughout Scotland as well as London and Calais. The themes of his work cover politics, love, human emotion and comment on the “absurdity” of the […] More
