Memory of the Blind Elephant

Phillips Drops a Last-Minute $35m Bacon Bomb on the November Sales Francis Bacon, Pope with Owls, 1958 )$35-45m) Phillips announces tonight that it will offer Francis Bacon’s ‘Pope with Owls’ ($35 – 45 million) from 1958 during its New York Evening Sale of 20th Century & Contemporary Art...

Telmo Miel, the artist duo consisting of Telmo Pieper and Miel Krutzmann, brings their surreal, distinct collaborative work to Thinkspace Projects with a new show...

Caring for the Carers: How Malaysian artists working with communities hold space | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia ArtsEquator Viewpoints Courtesy of Syarifah Nadhirah August 12, 2021 By Rahmah Pauzi (1,300 words, 5-minute read) I had forgotten how loaded the words “how are you,” or “apa khabar,” can be...

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The First Known Photograph of the San Francisco Opera | KQED Skip to Nav Skip to Main Skip to Footer upper waypoint Arts & Culture Newly Unearthed: The First Known Photograph of the San Francisco Opera Sarah Hotchkiss Feb 8 Save Article Save Article Failed to save article Please try again Email A detail from an October 1923 photograph of the San Francisco Opera company in the Civic Auditorium shows performers and family in pre-performance street clothes...

Untitled (Disneyland Opens) is a collage by Jess that refers back to the inauguration of Disneyland in Anaheim, California in 1955, and suggests an alternate, more sinister version of events...

In a groundbreaking verdict, the Court of Appeal has ushered in a significant transformation in the practices of UK museums concerning charging fees for reproducing historic artworks...

Tropical Siesta begins in a rural landscape of Vietnam...

How can photography heal past trauma? Ask a friend - 1854 Photography Subscribe latest Agenda Bookshelf Projects Industry Insights magazine Explore ANY ANSWERS FINE ART IN THE STUDIO PARENTHOOD ART & ACTIVISM FOR THE RECORD LANDSCAPE PICTURE THIS CREATIVE BRIEF GENDER & SEXUALITY MIXED MEDIA POWER & EMPOWERMENT DOCUMENTARY HOME & BELONGING ON LOCATION PORTRAITURE DECADE OF CHANGE HUMANITY & TECHNOLOGY OPINION THEN & NOW Explore Stories latest agenda bookshelf projects theme in focus industry insights magazine ANY ANSWERS FINE ART IN THE STUDIO PARENTHOOD ART & ACTIVISM FOR THE RECORD LANDSCAPE PICTURE THIS CREATIVE BRIEF GENDER & SEXUALITY MIXED MEDIA POWER & EMPOWERMENT DOCUMENTARY HOME & BELONGING ON LOCATION PORTRAITURE DECADE OF CHANGE HUMANITY & TECHNOLOGY OPINION THEN & NOW All images © Sophie Russell-Jeffrey Collaborating with her childhood friend, Sophie Russell-Jeffrey was able to access the most difficult episodes of their past – and push her portraiture into raw new territory Sophie Russell-Jeffrey was born and raised in Towcester, a small East Midlands town of around 10,000 people where “everyone knows everyone’s business”...

Yétúndé Olagbaju’s On becoming a star series recuperates the figure of ‘Mammy’, a stereotype rooted in American slavery that typically depicts a larger, dark skinned woman as a maternal presence, often within a domestic setting, and typically taking care of white children...

Donations sought to help children who have been through 'unimaginable circumstances' have a Merry Christmas | TribLIVE.com Valley News Dispatch Donations sought to help children who have been through 'unimaginable circumstances' have a Merry Christmas Brian C...

The Lonely Age by Connie Zheng is the first chapter in a trilogy of short experimental films about the complex temporalities of navigating ongoing environmental crises, as seen through the lens of seeds real and imagined...

Weekly Picks: Singapore (25 June - 1 July 2018) | ArtsEquator Thinking and Talking about Arts and Culture in Southeast Asia Singapore June 25, 2018 Chinatown Crossings by Drama Box 22 June – 18 August 2018 Experience Chinatown through an Indian man named Kumalan who grew up in Chinatown’s shophouse during the 1960s and 1970s...

JAKE! @ Betty Cuningham Gallery | Painters' Table Skip to main content JAKE! @ Betty Cuningham Gallery https://johnmitchellworld.wordpress.com/2020/02/19/jake/ Jake Berthot, Chapel Trail Near Alter Road, 2000, oil on panel, 26 3/8 x 26 1/8 inches (courtesy of Betty Cuningham Gallery) John Mitchell visits the exhibition JAKE! at Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York, on view through February 23, 2020...

Robbie Augspurger — UNRTD™ Robbie Augspurger Photographer Robbie Augspurger's retro portrait style is far for limited, looking at his work it is apparent that his creative undertaking is hilarious and brilliant, down to the very last impeccable detail...

Martha Atienza, Ana María Millán, Thao Nguyen Phan, Ana Vaz, and Connie Zheng KADIST and Sa Sa Art Projects are pleased to present Myth in Motion , an exhibition of videos from KADIST’s collection and one new video work by five international women artists...

With the war-torn Beirut cityscape as its backdrop—urban alleys, glistening beaches, abandoned buildings—Eric Baudelaire’s complex film, The Ugly One , unfolds in a time and place that vacillates among revolutionary narratives of the past, the fragile and ever-changing political situation of the present, and attempts to piece together the memories of those that live, or once lived, in the city...

Oreille Coupée - Photographs by Julien Coquentin | Book review by Justin Herfst | LensCulture Book review Oreille Coupée Investigating the remarkable return of a lone wolf to south central France, Julien Coquentin’s “Orielle Coupée” uses cyanotypes, landscapes and portraits to tell its story...

The latest exhibition at England's Baltic sets a whole new bar for showing art in a climate crisis Art market Museums & heritage Exhibitions Books Podcasts Columns Technology Adventures with Van Gogh Search Search Green is the New Black blog The latest exhibition at England's Baltic sets a whole new bar for showing art in a climate crisis Stepping Softly on the Earth embodies the themes of sustainability and interconnectedness both in its theme and how it has been put together Sponsored by Louisa Buck 6 February 2024 Share Stepping Softly on the Earth brings together work by more than 20 artists from across the world, whom together challenge our human-centred perspective Photo: John McKenzie @ Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art Green is the new black In this monthly column, Louisa Buck looks at how the art world is responding to the environmental and climate crisis...