This video essay seeks to explain how art progressed from figurative works to the abstract art of Jackson Pollock.
July 2019 Art News
Paris Photo, the world’s largest international art fair dedicated to the photographic medium, is launching Paris Photo New York to be held 2-5 April 2020. The new fair will be presented with the Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD), creating a transatlantic hub between two of the most historic epicenters for the photographic medium – Paris and New York.
It’s virtually impossible to give a cohesive assessment of the 58th Venice Biennale: its multiple venues are distributed between the industrial-looking former shipyard space Arsenale, the quaint Giardini with the various national pavilions and the dozens of individual installations scattered all over town. As a result, what tends to stick after a visit is whatever happened to align with an individual’s personal taste—and with so much on view, there is something for everyone.
This exhibition focuses largely on the sculpture and related drawings that Herbert Ferber (1906-1991) created during the 1950s that represent the artist’s most creative period. In these works, Ferber challenged traditional notions of sculpture and focused on line rather than mass, reflecting his artistic instinct that the future of sculpture lay as much in the shaping of space as it did in the shaping of form.
The beautiful Ardabil Carpet is one of the most important objects in the V&A’s Middle Eastern Collection, and the centrepiece of our Jameel Gallery of Islamic art. As the world’s oldest dated carpet, it is incredibly delicate and needs careful preservation. How is such a large and precious object preserved?
