In 1967 Edward Bawden (1903–1989) was commissioned by the Curwen Press to create a set of prints of famous London markets.
Theoretically this could change not only how we understand the macro and micro universes but how we can exist exist within a combined universe.
Etta James sings Hootchi-Kootchi Gal while Keith Richards and Robert Cray play and Chuck Berry cheers them on.
ROME — Italian archaeologists are hailing a recent discovery as the "most exceptional" in the last half-century. They believe it could rewrite the history of the relationship between the Etruscan and Roman civilizations.
Over a period of a few weeks in September and October, a team of archaeologists unearthed two dozen bronze statues of human figures, more than 2,000 years old and perfectly preserved in the hot mud and waters of an ancient, sacred pool.
The site is the hot springs of the Tuscan town of San Casciano dei Bagni — San Casciano of the Baths, one of many picturesque hilltop towns towering over lush green valleys dotted with majestic cypress trees.
ASHLEY BICKERTON (1959–2022) Ashley Bickerton, known for his biting, wildly inventive parodies of consumerism and island fantasy, died November 30 at his home in Bali at the age of sixty-three. Bickerton had been diagnosed with the degenerative motor-neuron disease ALS in 2021. News of his death was confirmed by Gagosian, which began representing him earlier this year. Noted for his so-called self-portraits—canvases and crates emblazoned with multiple corporate logos—Bickerton in the 1980s rose to fame alongside fellow “neo-geo” artists Jeff Koons, Peter Halley, and Meyer Vaisman before departing the New York art scene in 1993 for the island of Bali. “I wanted to start doing paintings,” he told Time Out in 2017, “and it had gotten to the point where there were too many damn social obligations to do the harder studio work painting entails.” https://www.artforum.com/news/ashley-bickerton-1959-2022-89773?utm_campaign=hp-news-module&utm_medium=web&utm_source=homepage
Paintings by Fiona Rae.
Philip Guston painting the torso of the philosopher William Gass in 1969.
It took eight years, an army of engineers, and 1,600 pounds of chains to bring artist Charles Gaines’s profound meditation on America to Life. Perched on the edge of Governors Island overlooking the harbor of New York City, Moving Chains is an overwhelming sensory experience. Viewers can walk through the sculpture along a 110-foot walkway, immersed in the cacophony created by nine rows of steel chains, each in motion and weighing a collective 1,600 pounds....
EX-tend EX-cess: Metamorphosis in Clay... This exhibition of contemporary abstraction through the medium of clay explores the grasping of transformation through “Action Clay-ing” — additions, growth, combinations, excess, exits and entrances, and endings and beginnings — as extensions of the artists’ bodily gestures and conceptual ideas. Towson University, Baltimore, MD, U.S.A.
Danish maritime architecture studio MAST has developed Land on Water, a system for constructing floating buildings that aims to be more flexible and sustainable than traditional methods.
The system designed by Copenhagen-based MAST consists of modular containers that can be filled with various floatation elements, similar to how gabion cages are used in the construction industry.
Made from recycled reinforced plastic, these flat-pack modules could be easily transported around the world and assembled in different configurations to suit a range of building types.
Charcoal, stencils and gold leaf on paper by Joyce Westrop.
Works on paper by Louise Bourgeois, 1911-2010.