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In his obituary to David Lynch this January, The New Yorker’s Richard Brody quotes from the legendary American film critic Pauline Kael’s classic 1969 essay “Trash, Art, and the Movies ...
An unlucky contestant on The 1% Club was left red-faced after fluffing what many viewers might consider a straightforward question, and even branded herself “thick” after her blunder.
I was at that decisive point in life, when my taste for literature, music, and art was starting to coalesce around more concrete principles instead of trend or temporal relevance. I returned to ...
News from the French publishers mare et martin that a new volume on the painter and art critic Charles-Paul Landon (1760-1826) has just been released (spotted via @mweilc). The publication, written by ...
Renowned in her time, with her paintings in high demand, Rachel Ruysch (1664-1750) has nonetheless been largely ignored by museums. She has never had a major monographic exhibition, not even in ...
It’s hard to know what to make of Paul Gauguin. Postimpressionism is an ... Gauguin grappled with what tools, if any, Western art had to shape the world for the better. Gauguin was a toddler ...
Consider the London painter Paul Maitland. Ask someone to think of the art of the capital and it will be the great names of impressionism that might first come to mind: Monet or Pissarro. But although ...
Meet the man behind the iconic Blue Dog in Blue: The Life and Art of George Rodrigue. This PBS documentary film takes a deep dive into the mesmerizing world of the late, great Louisiana painter ...
But the walk up to that level "brings many changes of mood," because Johnson, 48, works in many media and modes, and "creating an art that offers multiple-choice responses is pretty clearly what ...
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Meet the man behind the iconic Blue Dog in Blue: The Life and Art of George Rodrigue. This PBS documentary film takes a deep dive into the mesmerizing world of the late, great Louisiana painter George ...
During an interview for “BLUE: The Life and Art of George Rodrigue,” the artist’s son Jacques says that if you had called his grandmother a “Cajun,” she might have slapped your face.