tyranny of context – trading with tragedy

“How do you even begin to say something is flawed, or even bad, if it’s about slavery, the Holocaust or the opioid crisis? Or if the artist has endured personal tragedy? These conditions have engendered a self-perpetuating form of self-censorship on the part of those who view and care about art, a newly ingrained defence …

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native american artist demands indian lands

Nicholas Galanin The artist is demanding everything that have been taken away from them, including the lands. Nicholas Galanin was one of the artists who boycotted the Tear Gas Biennale. He feels that addressing the biological warfare is not sufficient, because there are more deep-rooted problems, that are not addressed, like the reparation of the …

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kat kitay’s critique of speculative futurists

“I don’t want to be a cyborg or haunting alien; I’m barely scraping by in this human form. I can’t follow artists into the imaginary while real war rages across every sector – military, ideological, economic, symbolic. Yet the speculative futurist, whose subject and medium revolves around the very technology that has transformed society for …

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saul leiter: street photographer who enjoyed anonymity

Saul Leiter’s photography ChatGPT said: Saul Leiter (1923–2013) was an American photographer and painter best known for his pioneering work in color street photography during a time when black-and-white photography was still considered the standard for serious art. Though he worked largely under the radar for much of his life, Leiter has since come to …

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french cinematographer claire mathon – filming like a painting

how in Céline Sciamma portrait of a lady on fire, they achieved shots that looks exactly like post-renaissance paintings. pls reflect. ChatGPT said: In Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), Céline Sciamma and cinematographer Claire Mathon achieved a painterly aesthetic that evokes post-Renaissance portraiture through a blend of deliberate visual composition, natural lighting, costume …

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ആഗോളകലയിലെ തദ്ദേശീയ രാഷ്ട്രീയ ശബ്ദങ്ങൾ

ഡോ. ജോൺ സേവ്യർ March 30, 2020 0 ബിനാലെയിലൂടെ കൊച്ചി സ്വയം കണ്ടെത്തി, മുൻ കായികതാരവും ഇപ്പോൾ ഒരു അന്താരാഷ്ട്ര സ്‌പോർട്‌സ് ലേഖകനുമായ ഫോർട് കൊച്ചി സ്വദേശിയായ ഒരു സുഹൃത്ത് എന്നോടു പങ്കുവച്ചതാണ് ഈ വെളിപ്പെടുത്തൽ. ബിനാലെയിലൂടെ കൊച്ചി സ്വയം കണ്ടെത്തുന്നതിന് രണ്ട് അർത്ഥമുണ്ട്. ഒന്ന്, ആഗോള സാംസ്‌കാരിക ഭൂപടത്തിൽ കൊച്ചി സ്വയം കണ്ടെത്തി. രണ്ട്, ലോകകലയുടെ പശ്ചാത്തലത്തിൽ ബിനാലെ ഒരുക്കിയ െധെഷണിക മണ്ഡലത്തിൽ കൊച്ചി ഒരു ആത്മപരിശോധനയ്ക്ക് വിധേയമായി. ഈ ആത്മപരിശോധനയിൽ രണ്ട് ഘടകങ്ങൾ ഉണ്ട്. ഒന്ന്, …

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