An exhibition that will leave most with a deep appreciation for Renoir as an artistic innovator and painter of the first rank.
- Lecturer, School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University
Frida: The Making of an Icon is not really an exhibition of Kahlo’s work. It is a cataloguing of her legacy.
This is a book that takes the complex needs of older artists seriously.
This is the challenge of the Kahlo legacy: the more ubiquitous her image becomes, the more its original and liberating meaning risks being flattened.
Art and the body are often linked in Kahlo’s life, which was short and traumatic.
The artist’s incredible skill once helped the painting to serve as a life-saving disguise.
The surge in value of virtual bananas is paralleled by the rising tide of another intangible asset: cryptocurrency.
Fame for artists has become less about the individual and more about their place with the large commercial art world ecosystem.
Wes Anderson’s new film French Dispatch features a short that explores the connection between artistic genius and mental illness.
Reactions to the new figure embody the problems that come with recreating the images of modern icons
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