"ART WORKERS AT WAR: How the Ukrainian Artworld Has Rallied to Protect Cultural Heritage" by Polina Baitsym (2022).

"The destruction of lives goes hand in hand with cultural devastation. In Chernihiv, a city on the verge of humanitarian catastrophe with no heat, electricity, or safe escape routes for its residents, Russian missiles destroyed the Vasyl Tarnovskyi Museum, a fin-de-siècle architectural monument; the whereabouts of its collection are as yet unknown. In besieged Mariupol – a city in which a six-year-old girl died from dehydration in the ruins of her house – Russian soldiers shelled the mosque of Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent and his wife Roxolana, while more than 80 people (including 34 children) sought refuge inside".

#Heritage #War #Ukraine #CulturalHeritage #ArtReview

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https://artreview.com/art-workers-at-war-how-the-ukrainian-artworld-has-rallied-to-protect-cultural-heritage/

"This insistence on turning art into a cipher for social history, into illustrations for a contemporary version of what Britain might have been about, reveals Tate Britain’s real problem: it doesn’t really know if it’s relevant to anyone anymore – after all, who cares about old British art, or even the idea of Britain? In response, it seems to have doubled-down on trying to be relevant, compressing centuries of art into easy-to-digest nuggets which (it believes) might appeal to new audiences (it thinks are) defined by the contemporary politics of identity. Time passes, more art is made, and there’s simply no more room in this old building, no space to see any one artist in any depth or multiple and competing movements in relation to each other – and so British art ends up being whatever contemporary curators say it is. The dead make history, but it’s the living who (re)write it".

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https://artreview.com/tate-britain-rehang-a-zombie-social-art-history/

While writing my latest blog post, I got curious (again) about how Tacita Dean collected the 4+ leaf clovers, her thoughts about collecting, her artistic intent. I even bought the exhibition book, which had more photos, but not actually any more info on that piece. It had a little blurb from her about collecting flints, which at least gave me confidence to extrapolate.

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2023-02-17-four-leaf-clover-tacita-dean/

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It's Friday so I have a new blog post

*Tacita Dean’s four-leaf clover collection vs my four-leaf clover collection*

I’ve found and collected hundreds of four-leaf clovers. So has the artist Tacita Dean. What’s the difference between our collections?

https://rinsemiddlebliss.com/posts/2023-02-17-four-leaf-clover-tacita-dean/

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Julia Bland reviews Firelei Báez at James Cohan Gallery #painting #artreview #NYCgalleries https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2022/12/firelei-baez-uncharting-charted-territory-and-vice-versa.html

#ArtReview / Heidi Hahn (on view at #NathalieKarg) is starting to think differently about the female body and how she paints it https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2022/12/heidi-hahns-bold-challenge-to-figuration.html

#RiadMiah contributed an #artreview of Fran O’Neill’s show at #EquityGallery Her work reaches back “so full-bloodedly to revisit gestural painting, and to exploit the expressive potential of abstraction and the flexibility of its formal attributes, that it somehow seems heroic.” https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2022/11/fran-oneill-gestural-heroine.html

#ArtReview —> Painter Mary Shah’s new abstract #paintings, on view at #RickWester, are compared to #GeorgiaOkeeffe and #CharlesBurchfield https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2022/11/mary-shahs-pulsing-abstract-narratives.html

“Kim Uchiyama’s quasi-sacred spaces” #ArtReview by #michaelbrennan #AbstractPainting #kimuchiyama / LINK: https://twocoatsofpaint.com/2022/11/kim-uchiyamas-quasi-sacred-spaces.html