UNSOLICITED ART (2): ZWEIMALSELBST BY CLAUDIA AHLERING
Claudia Ahlering is a German figurative painter who got her toehold in the art world by being a bit cute and female. Now in her 40s she...
TWELVE TRAVELS: BRITISH ART ON THE MOVE
Andy Goldsworthy, Bright sunny morning (1987) A sweeping show unpacks British artistic luggage in Setagaya A good wine, as they say...
SETTAI KOMURA: LISTENING WITH YOUR EYES
Settai Komura (1887–1940) was one of the busiest artists of his day. As a kabuki stage set designer, he produced around 200 sets, and i...
SCREAMING POSTERS OF THE SILENT TWENTIES
Author Unknown, "October," 1928 When the Communists seized control of Russia in late 1917, they found themselves in a diffic...
ITALIAN KINETIC ART
Incastro fluttuante 33 (1965 ) by Franco Grignani Contrary to appearances, Italy is a country and a culture that has always been open ...
JIM LAMBIE: RIFF ON A CURVE
Synesthesia is a condition in which stimulation of one sense triggers sensation in another. While very few people have it, most of us...
NATSUYUKI NAKANISHI: DISSECTING PLATO'S CAVE ON CANVAS
Behind, Circle — VII 05 One of the greatest mysteries of art is what exactly the flat two-dimensional surface of the canvas is, and wh...
HIROSHI NAKAMURA
"Build it and they will come!" That seems to have been the philosophy behind the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo. Unfortunat...
SIGMAR POLKE: POP MYSTIFICATION
Sigmar Polke in front of "Alice in Wonderland." Sigmar Polke has a lot in common with the medieval alchemists, with whom...
CEZANNE: PARIS & PROVENCE
Paul Cézanne "Apples and Oranges" (1899) A ‘town & country’ look at the “father of modern painting” If you’re a fo...
UNSOLICITED ART (1): "PAINTING 734" BY CLAUDIA PARENTELA
As a world famous art critic, artists from all over the world constantly send me their finest productions to pimp to the wider art world...
TADANORI YOKOO: NO MORE FORKS IN THE ROAD?
A Dark Night's Double Darkness (2001) Japanese artists, as they age, often benefit from the ‘Hokusai Effect.’ This is the not...
FERDINAND HODLER: THE PRECISION OF SWISS RHYTHM
Eurythmy III (1895) With Japan and Switzerland celebrating the 150th anniversary of diplomatic relations, there have been a few Swiss...
TOULOUSE-LAUTREC: FRANCE'S PROTO-WARHOL
La Troupe de Mademoiselle Eglantine There are interesting parallels between Andy Warhol and the French fin de siecle artist Toulouse...
Sculpture and Drawings by Rodin and Bourdelle
"Hercules the Archer" (1909) Show of Hands for the National Museum of Western Art Sometimes it seems that hands have...
Interview: Julius Evola on Dadaism
The great Italian traditionalist philosopher Julius Evola talking about his involvement with the Italian Dadaist movement. The intervi...
Marlene Dumas
"Feather Boa" and "Turkish Girl" "Anger, sadness, bereavement, and love – these days we rely on photograph...
Paintings from the Uffizi
There’s something quaint about the main painting at the “Galleria Degli Uffizi: Arte a Firenze da Botticelli a Bronzino — verso una ‘Man...
Asae Soya: Prism
"Circles" Perspective, by its invocation of distance, divides things and people from each other. While such divisions help ...
FICTION FOR THE REAL
"Bathroom" Apparently the blurry, furry divide between reality on one side and fiction n' fantasy on the other concerns ...
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