Great lockdown art
April 15, 2021 4:48 AM Subscribe
Jonathan Jones reviews artist Rachel Whiteread's show Internal Objects in The Guardian. "This has been the strangest year for art. We have been physically closed off from it – and now have the ludicrous situation of such commercial galleries as the Gagosian reopening, while public museums must wait until at least 17 May. In the absence of art, we have argued about it, over public statues and what museums were left by previous generations. But what’s got lost is any sense of art as mystery, as poetry, as the inexplicable. Here it is. ...This, finally, is great lockdown art."
Other cultural treasures to consider as the weekend draws near:
Join artist Sonya Clark on Sunday, April 18 as she reflects on works in her new National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibition, Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend, the first survey of her 25-year career. "Textile and social practice artist Sonya Clark (b. 1967) is renowned for her mixed-media works that address race and visibility, explore Blackness, and redress history." Free, online event based in Washington, D.C. that encourages donations.
An interview with Los Angeles-based Black American artist Henry Taylor, currently in the UK, by Lanre Bakare in The Guardian.
Extracts from audio guides on some of the British Museum's most popular objects, including a penny that was defaced by suffragettes.
Other cultural treasures to consider as the weekend draws near:
Join artist Sonya Clark on Sunday, April 18 as she reflects on works in her new National Museum of Women in the Arts exhibition, Sonya Clark: Tatter, Bristle, and Mend, the first survey of her 25-year career. "Textile and social practice artist Sonya Clark (b. 1967) is renowned for her mixed-media works that address race and visibility, explore Blackness, and redress history." Free, online event based in Washington, D.C. that encourages donations.
An interview with Los Angeles-based Black American artist Henry Taylor, currently in the UK, by Lanre Bakare in The Guardian.
Extracts from audio guides on some of the British Museum's most popular objects, including a penny that was defaced by suffragettes.
Thanks for these!
posted by freakazoid at 7:44 AM on April 15, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by freakazoid at 7:44 AM on April 15, 2021 [1 favorite]
I love the interview with Henry Taylor:
As he tried to make it as an artist, he worked as a psychiatric technician for a decade. He would paint in his spare time and the experiences he had at work bled into his canvases. Taylor would talk to, and paint, homeless people in LA’s notorious Skid Row neighbourhood. “I know that everybody ain’t a drug addict,” he says. “Some people maybe got beat down by the law. I have a lot of empathy for these people because I’ve met decent people in the hospital. They might have a moment but we all have motherfucking moments.”
posted by Bella Donna at 10:09 AM on April 15, 2021 [1 favorite]
As he tried to make it as an artist, he worked as a psychiatric technician for a decade. He would paint in his spare time and the experiences he had at work bled into his canvases. Taylor would talk to, and paint, homeless people in LA’s notorious Skid Row neighbourhood. “I know that everybody ain’t a drug addict,” he says. “Some people maybe got beat down by the law. I have a lot of empathy for these people because I’ve met decent people in the hospital. They might have a moment but we all have motherfucking moments.”
posted by Bella Donna at 10:09 AM on April 15, 2021 [1 favorite]
I’ve been compulsively buying art through the pandemic. I love it but am not sure quite what to do with a wall’s worth of pandemic and unrest art. It’s been a bit like company in a very weird year.
posted by sepviva at 7:40 PM on April 15, 2021 [1 favorite]
posted by sepviva at 7:40 PM on April 15, 2021 [1 favorite]
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