âThe Traumatic Surreal is a significant study exploring the pioneering contributions of German-speaking women artists working within Surrealist traditions and in response to the trauma and legacies of the Second Word War.
I have often told the story of what happened that day, and each time, in the telling, I see John Sewetti standing in the middle of that trapped, crumpled parade of people, as if he should have been wearing a sheet and sandals, the way those walking saints of India do, or holding a staff and carrying two stone tablets under his arm.
One of Austinâs longtime gallery patrons is Chris Tomlinson, a Hearst Newspapers columnist who, along with his wife, Shalini Ramanathan, acquires work by local artists of his generation.
A request to learn if the museum is being closed permanently or just temporarily was not answered by anyone in president Padillaâs office, although the petition described creating an art gallery in a renovated dormitoryâs common reading room.
The spelling of Gnatalie (pronounced like âNatalieâ) reflects the gruelling work of the palaeontologists who extracted the fossilâthe most complete sauropod skeleton on the USâs West Coastâfrom a riverbed in the Badlands of Utah, where they endured a relentless assault of gnats.
Heâs described at one point as âan anteater licking an anthill cleanâ; later, he talks about spiders that eat cockroaches and marvels at how âmagnificent the structure of the food chain is.â Is he a predator who gets nourishment from the destruction he causes?
Archaelogists working with Mexicoâs National Institute of Anthropology and History (INAH) have identified ancient Maya settlements in the vicinity of Calakmul, a historic site in the state of Campeche, using light detection and ranging (Lidar), a remote scanning technology.
âJohn has been pushing the boundaries of art for decades and âcrystalline workâ is his most ambitious and thought-provoking artwork to date,â Feral File cofounder Casey Reas said in a statement.
Visitors to MoMI will be able to acquire, without any costs, a fragment of digital art from moving-image works projected on the giant media wall in the museumâs lobby.
The collections include many finds from French sites like the rock shelter of La Madeleine, excavated during the 19th century, and also objects found at Montastruc on the river Aveyronânotably the famous Swimming Reindeer, brilliantly carved from the tip of a mammoth tusk.
The Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam says it will return a painting by Henri Matisse to the heirs of a Jewish textiles manufacturer who sold it under duress in the Netherlands before being deported to a Nazi camp, where he died in 1945.
Almost five years after taking the helm of Warsawâs preeminent contemporary art institution, the Ujazdowski Castle (CCA), Piotr Bernatowicz has been removed from his post by the Polish minister of culture, Hanna WrĂłblewska.
