‘I’m broken and my only sin was being a woman’ – Gabrielle Goliath’s survivors | Photography
[ad_1] The event that shaped Gabrielle Goliath’s life as an artist happened when she was nine years old: a schoolfriend was killed in an act of domestic violence, the details of which have never been clear. “It would have been an accident,” she says, from her home in Johannesburg, 30 years on. “But, you know, […]
New Deal For Artists: an unearthed film on how arts funding should work | Documentary films
[ad_1] In America, the culture war over state funding of arts programs never really ends, but rather assumes slightly altered forms over time. The latest battle lines have formed around Broadway, in desperate need of an infusion of cash from the government to survive the pandemic, much to the chagrin of budget-slashing conservatives. Not so […]
‘Some people feel threatened’: face to face with Ai-Da the robot artist | Culture
[ad_1] She, if it can be called a she, began her career with abstract art but has now moved to self, if they can be called self, portraits and they are alarmingly good. “She is getting better all of the time,” said Aidan Meller, the force behind Ai-Da, the world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist, who […]
‘Odd, eerie and haunting’: behind Maya Lin’s Manhattan ghost forest | Art
[ad_1] In Manhattan’s bustling Flatiron District, 49 coastal Atlantic cedars – each around 40ft tall, leafless branches grasping at the sky – tower over Madison Square Park’s usually flat, grassy plain. The spectral forest, a new installation by the artist and architect Maya Lin, looms like a jarring holdout from winter – barren, save for […]
Fierce friends: Moyra Davey is inspired by Peter Hujar’s archive – in pictures | Art and design
[ad_1] Rosie (bedroom), 2013 ‘I began by listing categories of images I wanted to see: animals, water, young men, body parts, NYC, babies,’ writes Davey, who was born in 1958 and is based in New York City. She works across photography, video, and writing. Peter Hujar, whose reputation has grown since his death, is now […]
‘This is exciting for artists’: is this project the future of billboards? | Art
[ad_1] In 1967, Elektra Records took a risk by purchasing a large hand-painted billboard on West Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard to promote a new album by The Doors, an up-and-coming local band in residency at Whiskey a Go Go, a nearby nightclub. It would ignite a golden era of advertising on the 1.5-mile stretch known as […]
‘My head is on fire’: Roger Ballen finds poetry in pain – in pictures
[ad_1] Paint, collage and photography combine in Ballen’s tumultuous The Earth Will Come to Laugh and Feast. Italian poet Gabriele Tinti reflects on his work … Continue reading… [ad_2] This content first appear on the guardian
To infinity and beyond: the spectacular sensory overload of Ryoji Ikeda’s art | Installation
[ad_1] Ryoji Ikeda has delivered some dazzling rushes on the senses over his 25-year career: a beach in Rio de Janeiro bathed in his unique palette of light; New York’s Times Square given over to his black and white flickering patterns. But for his next show, the Japanese artist and composer is taking things underground. […]
David Hockney on joy, longing and spring light: ‘I’m teaching the French how to paint Normandy!’ | David Hockney
[ad_1] ‘I think it looks terrific,” says David Hockney. “It’s all on one theme, isn’t it? And there’s not many exhibitions like that, really, a show all about the spring.” The 83-year-old artist is taking a look around his new exhibition at the Royal Academy in London for the first time. He seems happy with […]
Freaky fairytales: the upside-down mind of Rachel Maclean – in pictures | Art and design
[ad_1] Eyes 2 Me, 2015, digital video still Made in the style of a children’s television programme, Eyes 2 Me follows a young protagonist named Sophie as she moves through an enchanted garden inhabited by a race of cuddly Cyclops. As the video shifts between different formats (kids’ TV, a fashion shoot, a probing interview), […]
