29 April 2011 | Photography
A writer for the French blog Niouzesetweberies writes: Fabienne Cherisma is a fifteen-year-old Haitian adolescent. She escaped the tragic earthquake. But Fabienne happened to be among the ruins when she received three bullets to the head from Haitian police trying to disperse looters. This photo by Paul Hansen won best photo of the year in [...]
26 April 2011 | Contemporary, Museums, News, Outsider
Following the Né dans la rue show in 2009 at the Fondation Cartier, MOCA is presenting the first major US museum survey of street art, Art in the Streets. You might be familiar with the show via the controversy surrounding Blu’s mural but, scandal aside, it is an extensive, wide-ranging exhibition and should significantly contribute [...]
18 April 2011 | Americas, Books, Contemporary
In her new book “Since ’45: America and the Making of Contemporary Art,” Katy Siegel examines artists’ “preoccupations with issues of race, mass culture, the individual, suburbia, apocalypse, and nuclear destruction” — noting that “while a leading textbook like Art Since 1900, for instance, assumes that the most important art is American or European, those [...]
15 April 2011 | Asia, Contemporary, Current Events
As the Chinese government’s detention of artist Ai Weiwei approaches the two-week mark, ArtInfo.com brings together the latest developments. Ai was arrested in Beijing on April 3, an event his studio assistants recorded on Twitter (translation here). Evan Osnos reported on the day’s events in a New Yorker dispatch. Police claim that Ai is being investigated [...]
14 April 2011 | Renaissance
The Renaissance art historian Creighton Gilbert died on April 6, 2011. On his life and career see the entry in the Dictionary of Art Historians. We will post an obituary when it appears in the press.
14 April 2011 | Modern, Renaissance
The great art historian and critic Leo Steinberg died in New York City on March 13, 2011. Steinberg, more than any other historian of Renaissance art, believed in the power of pictorial structure to generate meaning. On Steinberg’s life and work see the New York Times obituary and the entry in the online Dictionary of [...]
7 April 2011 | Conferences, Modern, Museums
It’s going to be a summer of Spanish expatriates in the bay area; Balenciaga and Spain is currently on view at the De Young, followed shortly by Picasso: Masterpieces from the Musée National Picasso Paris, while SFMoMA has organized The Steins Collect: Matisee, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde beginning next month. Together this looks to [...]
