Tag: art
Queer British Art : A Major Retrospective
London’s Tate Gallery has just announced a major new exhibition planned for 2017 called Queer British Art. The first of it’s kind from the prestigious Institution that houses the country’s national collection of British art, and it will mark the 50th Anniversary of the de-criminalization of (male) homosexuality in England & Wales. The show will be…
Loving Vincent
There is an extraordinary new movie called Loving Vincent about the artist Van Gogh which is in the works right now. Each single frame is an oil painting. At 12 paintings per second, that’s 720 paintings in just one minute. So far over 100 artists fluent in Van Gogh’s style have contributed. The film itself…
Legends, Icons & Superstars
There is a new rather spectacular exhibition in London that showcases the work of two giants of American postwar visual culture. Photographer Richard Avedon and artist Andy Warhol were both portraitists, obsessed with celebrity, and used repetition within their images. They often used the same subjects, and Avedon even photographed Warhol a couple of times…
Obscene and Pornographic Art Show
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Isaac Julien : Stones Against Diamonds
One of the very definite highlights of Art Basel 2015, the world’s leading contemporary Art Fair held in Miami Beach every December, is a new work by the British queer artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien. Commissioned by Rolls Royce Motor Cars the piece is titled Stones Against Diamonds and draws inspiration from a letter written by Brazilian…
