By Yiwen Liu, CMA Curatorial Research Assistant As a series of prequels to the Harry Potter movies, a third movie in the world of wizardry was recently released in the Fantastic Beasts series. Despite the new movie’s mixed reviews, it still provides a delightful new variety of cute and imaginative […]
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For William Kentridge, Art and Life Animate One Another
MILWAUKEE — William Kentridge is a stout man with a prominent nose, a high forehead, and a silky South African accent. He often wears a button-down white cotton shirt, somewhat wrinkled. Reading glasses dangle from a cord, moving to and fro from chest to bridge, with the fluid animation for […]
African and Afro-Caribbean Reverence in Art and Performance – ARTnews.com
To an outside observer, ceremonial rituals may seem inherently theatrical. Connecting with realms and beings beyond our solid three dimensions requires specific visual, verbal, and spatial cues—a set of colors, an incantation, a site, a time of day. By activating these elements, we attempt to touch the untouchable. When artists […]
3 Ways Art Benefits Mental Health
The Effects of Stress We all face a lot of stress nowadays, whether it be due to world events, the pandemic, or events in our own lives. This stress causes real physical and emotional harm to us if we don’t take steps to mitigate it as well as we can. […]
Grid Name Design for Back to School – Art is Basic
Are you searching for an easy again to university project for your college students? In this article is a title design and style that I have taught in the earlier. This will be effortless for you to do, with extremely very little prep. My possess kiddo did this job in […]
How (and where) to practice collage art
1 of my most important beliefs about collage art is that it is not a talent, but a skill. This usually means that the extra you do it, the far better you get. But how do you practice collage, and in which can you discover routines to enable you? Before […]
Flood Tide of Resistance. An interview with Oliver Ressler – We Make Money Not Art
I remember the years 2008 and 2009 as a period when many art institutions across Europe dedicated major exhibitions to “the changing planet” and in particular to the effects that global warming, pollution, land erosion and other sources of environmental degradation were having on the living world. At the time, […]
Floppy disk fever. The Curious Afterlives of a Flexible Medium – We Make Money Not Art
Floppy Disk Fever. The Curious Afterlives of a Versatile Medium explores the curious afterlives of the floppy disk in the twenty-to start with century by interviewing all those included with the medium right now. It was edited by artist, musician and researcher Niek Hilkmann and graphic designer and researcher Thomas […]
Peter Schjeldahl, New Yorker’s Head Art Critic, Dies at 80 – ARTnews.com
Peter Schjeldahl, whose exuberant prose and perceptive brain manufactured him one of the most broadly examine art critics in the U.S., has died at 80. He experienced been battling lung most cancers, and he chronicled his working experience with the sickness in a memorable 2019 essay called “The Artwork of […]
Mixed Media Art Supplies for Urban Sketching
In this article are recommendations of supplies for mixed media art and urban sketching. I’ve been using the tools and supplies mentioned below for years and I’ll share with you the pros and cons for each media. This article is written for art beginners and urban sketchers. Many of the […]