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How the camera confronted slavery — and still does By Mark Feeney Globe Staff,Updated December 30, 2020, 2:02 p.m. Email to a Friend Carrie Mae Weems, "While Sitting Upon the Ruins of Your Remains, I Pondered the Course of History" (2016-17), from "To Make Their Own Way in the World: The Enduring Legacy of the Zealy Daguerreotypes" (Aperture/Peabody Museum Press, 2020).Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York The course of history didn’t change in 1839, with the inventi...

Michael Ondaatje’s The English Patient is a famous novel, one turned into a famous film. Published in 1992, the novel co-won the Booker Prize with Barry Unsworth’s Sacred Hunger. The English Patient is so famous, it barely requires a summary here: its settings are among the finest in the literature of the past fifty years – the Sahara, the bombed-out villa hiding in the Tuscan hills, and some of its vignettes (faithfully recreated in the film) are iconic: who can forget the penis sleep...

An Exhibition in Tucson Looks at the Things We Leave Behind Photographers Tom Kiefer and Alejandro Cartagena portray unseen lives, migrant journeys, and the disparity between reality and myth. Reviews - December 22, 2020 Where one artist collects, another deliberately erases and alters. On Halloween in downtown Tucson, Arizona, Etherton Gallery’s opening of El Sueño, an exhibition of Tom Kiefer’s photographs of migrants’ seized belongings and Alejandro Cartagena’s reconfigured found...

by Karen Nikos-Rose December 17, 2020 All ready for the holidays and nowhere to go? Don’t despair. Lots of virtual events are on tap throughout the region: attend a virtual concert or play, or make something. And it’s virtual, so you can wear your comfortable home clothes. We even have events listed up through New Years. Tie definitely optional. Read on. Also, the Arts Blog, like UC Davis, will be on hiatus from Dec. 21 until Jan 4. So, we’ll catch you in 2021. This blog compiled my Mich...

Children Pushing a Snowball, Manchester, 1968, 1968. - Credit: Shirley Baker/courtesy of James Hyman Gallery Hampstead Garden Suburb art collector James Hyman is rounding off the year selling yet more artwork in aid of charity. James Hyman Gallery has pledged 50 percent of profits from the online fundraising sale over the Christmas period will go to foodbank charity The Trussell Trust. Running from December 7 - 31, the 54 paintings, sculptures, drawings, photographs and prints include work ...

On artists and art: New biographies take us behind the pictures By M. J. Andersen Globe Correspondent,Updated December 17, 2020, 3:00 p.m. Email to a Friend Gorodenkoff Productions OU/Gorodenkoff - stock.adobe.com Books about artists place their authors, at best, in a draw with their subjects. After all, the art is what drives our interest. How well can an account of the life, or an analysis of the work, ultimately compete? Still, the privilege of looking is not always ours. Especially if they ...

Jolynne Dougherty Courtesy of Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall. A book tree brings holiday cheer at the Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall.   TribLIVEs Daily and Weekly email newsletters deliver the news you want and information you need, right to your inbox. If you are on social media and you love books, chances are you’ve had someone send you a picture of a Christmas Tree made out of books, or a post about the Icelandic people who give and receive books on Christmas Eve. I...

An interview by Dale Berning Sawa ‘Once they’d finished, they just stood there awaiting further instructions. “Oh my God!” I said. “Don’t move!”’ The Cox London foundry create beautiful metal pieces for the luxury interiors market. I had photographed the creative directors before, but for this shoot last year, the start of an ongoing project celebrating the skilled craftspeople in British manufacturing, I wanted to focus on the workers. I was inspired by Cox London’s Instagram...

From The Beatles to Jimi Hendrix, a rare Linda McCartney retrospective exhibition is hitting Victoria The Beatles at Abbey Road, London in 1969 - by Linda McCartney, cropped Words by Talia Rinaldo In a massive coup for the 2021 Ballarat International Foto Biennale, Linda McCartney: Retrospective will be on show for the first time in Australia next year. Curated by husband and Beatles legend Paul McCartney and daughters Mary and Stella McCartney, the exhibition...

francisco. a monograph was published in 2011. and it is represented by local galleries and sf galleries would like to thank steven orts and the staff for the support of this event. we asked doug to speak today in order to draw threads from his work until asketon has street view which is currently on view in the gallery. doug i will turn it over to you. >> thanks for coming. i appreciate it. i am looking forward to giving you some details on this. i have 15 minutes, so i am not going to...