Author: Ann Williams

Jesse (circa 1500) by Veit StossCleveland Museum of ArtThis Late Gothic lime wood sculpture by the famous German woodcarver Veit Stoss was once part of the altarpiece centered on the Tree of Jesse, a well-known medieval representation of Christ’s ancestors of King David’s father Jesse of Bethlehem. Here, the image of Jesse sleeping occupies the base of the tree that has since been lost. According to the Cleveland Museum of Art, which purchased the sculpture from London art dealer Alexander Rudigier, the altarpiece may have originally been made for a church in Nuremberg, where Stoss was active from 1496 until…

In 2020, Apple TV+ released a documentary by directors Amanda McBaine and Jesse Moss Boys State, After the 2018 edition of the Texas after-school program of the same name for teenagers. Boys State puts it on The American Legion, on the other hand, is run by Girls State, its distaff equivalent, the American Legion Auxiliary. Like its counterpart program, each iteration of Girls State brings together high school students from across the American state for a week-long series of simulated government exercises, including politics. debates, Supreme Court cases and, of course, elections. Given the popularity and success of Boy Statue,…

Art MarketSarah FrostExterior view of the Bonne Espérance gallery. Courtesy of Good Hope Gallery.Portrait of Anna Nevicka and Olivier Maréchal outside OA Fine Arts. Courtesy of OA Fine Art.Paris is a city full of art history. Today, the French capital has a high density of galleries, as well as a rich pool of long-standing institutions and private museums, such as the Pinault Collection and the Fondation Louis Vuitton. People no longer go to Paris to visit the Louvre, but to see unique contemporary art exhibitions. Local again grayness and strike— gray skies and strikes — may persist, there is a…

Last year the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam opened the 17th century painting by the Dutch master Johannes Vermeer. When he showed 35 works by the 28th century master, everyone knew it was going to be an extraordinary experience. But Taco Dibbits, the museum’s general manager, was surprised that 654,000 tickets were sold for the simply titled show. Vermeer. A month after opening, The Times He announced in London that the “Vermeer craze” was in full swing, with everyone shaking their contacts for a ticket as official sales closed. The only way to get a place was to join the Rijksmuseum’s “Friends”…

HOUSTON – For the 2024 FotoFest Biennial, director and curator Steve Evans asked how photographers document erasure. From rural Texas to the cities of Hong Kong, political unrest, climate change and gentrification have constantly altered the landscape, obscuring hard histories. The main exhibition Critical Geography At Silver Street Studios and Winter Street Studios in Sawyer Yards, it brings together 20 international artists in collectives, all questioning the politics of space. A smaller show, Ten tenIt highlights leading artists gathered in more than 400 portfolio reviews, and is exhibited biennially at more than 70 participating venues throughout Houston and its suburbs.…

A prominent art and design school in Kiev was heavily damaged by a Russian airstrike on Monday, becoming the latest landmark of Ukrainian culture during the Russian invasion. The news was shared by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, which said in a statement, “As a result of falling fragments of a missile launched by the Russian Federation, the center of the building of the Kyiv State Academy of Decoration and Applied Arts. Art and design named Mykhailo Boichuk was destroyed.” The ministry added that “the premises of the departments and the institution’s auditorium have suffered significant…

Multidisciplinary artist Xin Liu has won the inaugural K11 Artist Prize, an award created by the K11 Art Foundation in 2023 to highlight emerging Asian talent. Born in Xinjiang, China in 1991 and living in New York, Liu was selected among eight artists for his interdisciplinary work that connects art and science. The artist studied measurement, control technology and instrumentation at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and later earned an MA in media arts and science from MIT and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His educational experiences have inspired him to approach his work as a scientific…

New digital art experiences, such as London’s Outernet, have been in the headlines recently with high numbers of attendees compared to more traditional museums; last year, for example, Outernet reported almost 6.3 million visitors compared to 5.8 million for the British Museum.But how does Outernet account for visitors entering its open-sided building at a busy intersection in central London? It uses video surveillance. Or, more specifically, it uses video analytics provider BriefCam to track visitors using deep learning, an artificial intelligence (AI) method that teaches computers to process data like the human brain. We are able to track gender and…

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Sam Dienst, “Freeze” (2023), with handwoven decorative tapestry (yarn, beads, felt, paint, and thread), 40 x 38 inches Sam Dienst, “Freeze” (2023), with handwoven decorative tapestry (yarn, beads, felt, paint, and thread), 40 x 38 inches Sam Dienst, “Freeze” (2023), with handwoven decorative tapestry (yarn, beads, felt, paint, and thread), 40 x 38 inches DETROIT – The word “tapestry” conjures up medieval constructions in dark, simple palettes that convey religious rites and hunting motifs, but modern practitioners such as Ebony G. Patterson have demonstrated that the form belongs to the (second) Renaissance. Following the call of his textile practice, Detroit…