”Many ways of thinking could coexist in one person.” He was ostracized by reactionary Fascist critics in Italy for his religion, sexual proclivity and internationalist perspective on art. An exhibition in NY brings together a dizzying array of work from the boundary-shattering life of Corrado Cagli.
image: Ctr for Italian Modern Art https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/07/arts/design/cima-italian-artist-corrado-cagli.html
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Crosswalks.... waiting for a sign, deciding where to go. A British photographer has turned "banal parts of urban infrastructure into cinematic scenes of people suspended in a rare moment of peace" amid the typically chaotic life of a bustling city. credit: Oli Kellett https://www.cnn.com/style/oli-kellett-photographer-crosswalks/index.html
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“Girl,” 1961, Cornelis Ruhtenberg (1923-2008), now available. Mesmerizing mid-century figurative. Ruhtenberg explored neither psychological insight nor the appearance of her subjects, seeking instead pure, essential meaning. She depicted her sitters caught in their own contemplative worlds. https://www.liveauctioneers.com/.../167360454_cornelis...
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"She believed that photographs could help change people's minds." It was the Great Depression that spurred Dorothea Lange to turn to documentary photography. Beginning her career as a studio photographer, she began to see people in need on the streets. "It was that experience of seeing something that was not right that made her go out and want to do something." Credit: Dorothea Lange https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231203-dorothea-lange-10-of-the-uss-most-iconic-portraits
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"Five Nudes on Blue," Harold Frank (1917-1995), mid-century, now available. Mesmerizing Modern abstract created with Frank's signature quick expressive brushstrokes & lyrical lines. Variations on women became a theme for Frank, and he Frank found Abstract Expressionism the ideal means to explore the angst of his world. https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/166770662_harold-frank
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There's an alternate history of modern art to consider, and it's on display at the Georgia Museum of Art. With 100 or so works of art, the exhibition surveys the riches of a stylistic evolution during the early 20th century often buried in art history books. image: UNC Press https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/30/arts/design/southern-modern-georgia-museum.html
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He died more than a century ago. Yet Cezanne can feel perpetually new. "He was an artistic nomad," in and out of the Impressionist movement, shuttling between Paris and Aix-en-Provence. Yet after his death, his name became a rallying cry for the Modernist movement. Here are 10 key works selected by curators of a new retrospective. image: Sammlung Feilchenfeldt, Zurich https://www.artnews.com/list/art-news/artists/ten-essential-works-by-cezanne-1234637022/?fbclid=IwAR1t2fQY--oX7PisJ6hrz4DCfam170DP1Shp6ylddfR2hDO9OtgxnEXKRy0
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A major retrospective of Philip Evergood is long overdue. A leading Modernist of the 20th Century, Evergood combined abstraction & realism, with subjects in the 1930s that made him also one of the leading Social Realists of the period.
"Wonders of the Frog," 1960s, Philip Evergood (1901-1973). private collection.
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Pronouns are not a new thing. A Museum will now relabel its display & refer to the Roman emperor Elagabalus with the female pronouns of she and her, concluding that he was in fact a trans woman. image PHAS https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-67484645
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John Singer Sargent, it seems, had a penchant for shocking the public. But then "he didn't find conventional, conservative English women very interesting. He liked very strong, often independent women." A new exhibition in Boston explores how this marriage portrait pushed boundaries. Image: Museum of Fine Arts Boston https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20231121-john-singer-sargents-portrait-of-ena-wertheimer-the-painting-that-challenged-sexual-norms
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