Morning Links: Giant Spider Edition -ARTnews
Jan Vincentsz van der Vinne, A Spider, late 17th or early 18th century, watercolor. COURTESY METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART Museums An enormous Louise Bourgeois spider sculpture will make the rounds…
Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain’ at Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Dresden, Germany -ARTnews
Alina Szapocznikow, Lamp III, 1970. ©2018 VG BILD-KUNST, BONN Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind…
The Year in Screens—With 3D Teddy Bears, Absconded Identities, Violent Comedy, and More -ARTnews
Tala Madani, The Audience (still), 2018, single-channel animation (color, sound), 16 minutes, 8 seconds. ©TALA MADANI/COURTESY 303 GALLERY, NEW YORK This year marked the 50th anniversary of the release of…
Foreign Artists in Paris 1944–1968′ at Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid -ARTnews
Haywood Bill Rivers, Tailor shop, 1948, oil on canvas. THE BALTIMORE MUSEUM OF ART Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday. Today’s show: “Lost, Loose…
The Year in Review -ARTnews
In Art Basel’s Unlimited section this year in Switzerland: He Xiangyu’s Untitled, 2018, aluminum, 99.9 percent pure gold, and egg, 120.1 in. x 120.1 in., in Basel, Switzerland. Exhibited by…
Morning Links: Crown Jewels Edition -ARTnews
Not the crown jewels mentioned below, but certainly very impressive jewels! It’s a pair of hand jewels from around 1750 by an anonymous artisan. COURTESY RIJKSMUSEUM, AMSTERDAM Artists Banksy struck…
The Year in Books—Under the Covers, Between the Lines -ARTnews
KATHERINE MCMAHON/ARTNEWS So many books, so little time! Yet we read what we can and find ourselves enriched as a result. In tribute to some (but by no means all)…
Sanford Biggers on ‘Juggling Cultural Signs,’ in 2000 -ARTnews
Installation view of “Sanford Biggers,” 2018, at Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis. DUSTY KESSLER Currently on view at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis is a survey of recent…
Siah Armajani at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis -ARTnews
Pictures at an Exhibition Installation view of “Siah Armajani: Follow This Line,” 2018, at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. BOBBY ROGERS/COURTESY WALKER ART CENTER Today’s show: “Siah Armajani: Follow This…
The Year in Artful Music: Sounds for Contemplation -ARTnews
Cover art for Alexander Provan’s Measuring Device With Organs. Music is art in all cases, and any energy devoted to segregation is misspent. But then, at the same time, there…