View Larger Enrique Chagoya. American (born Mexico), born 1953
Abenteuer der Kannibalen Bioethicists (7/7), 2001
Lithograph and woodcut with black, ochre, blue, yellow, and green ink, chine collé, and collage on paper, 26/30
The Museum Junkie
View Larger “Picasso’s been hot for 80 years”
Happy 108th Birthday Willem de Kooning (1904-1997)
These are two reproductions from the collection of the Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin, OH). The photographic portrait of de Kooning was taken by American artist Ruby Burckhardt (1914-1999) and is now on view in the AMAM’s exhibition “Artists on Artists.”
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View Larger I wonder: do Magritte’s apples relate to those of Cèzanne?
via fckyeaharthistory: René Magritte - The Listening Room I, 1952. Oil on canvas
READ THIS: An Object of Beauty by Steve Martin (©2010)
For an art history major looking forward to a career in the glossy world of art, this novel is straight-up candy. I couldn’t put it down, especially when protagonist Lacey has a sex scene under a Matisse (new fantasy of every artistic college student). Steve Martin is so on-point with his observations on everything from snobby bullshitters (paintings being “in dialogue” with one another) to Larry Gagosian to the distinctions in uptown/downtown Manhattan vibes. If you know anything about art (or don’t, for that matter), you’ll love this book.
Click photo for the NYTimes book review by Janet Maslin.
Nan Goldin (American, b. 1953)
Self-Portrait after being battered, 1984
Cibachrome print
Overall: 16 x 20 in.
(406 x 508 mm)
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation Photography Fund, 1993.4.1
Natural History Museum, London
