Jasmine Sanders on the Black Romantic
Aaron Hicks,
Daniel in the Lion’s Den, 2000, lacquer and acrylic on canvas, 30 × 36 .
I WAS RAISED BY MY GRANDMOTHER in the Robert Taylor Homes, a housing project on Chicago’s South Side, but frequently stayed at the home of my aunt Rosemary Jarrett, my grandmother’s oldest daughter. When my adoption was finalized, my birth certificate and other documents indelibly amended, my aunt became, legally, my sister, a novel relation that would be indispensable, steadying.
My aunt had back then a marvelously filthy mouth, supplemented by a full and ribald laugh. She inherited from her mother a talent for entertaining, as well as an exuberant, maximalist approach to the adornment of self and home. These impulses converged in the art parties she hosted when I was younger.
Artist and educator Roland Reiss dies at age 91
Roland Reiss, Human Nature, 2012, Oil, acrylic, and vinyl on canvas.
LOS ANGELES, CA
.- We are saddened to announce the death of Roland Reiss, artist and educator, loving husband, father, and grandfather, who passed away on Sunday, December 13, of natural causes in Los Angeles, at his home and studio at The Brewery Artist Lofts. He was 91.
Reiss is widely known for his miniatures but is foremost a painter. An influential and beloved voice in the Los Angeles and Southern California art scene, Reiss exhibited widely throughout his sixty-year career. He was included in the 1975 Whitney Biennial, documenta 7 (1982), and received fourteen solo museum exhibitions, including The Dancing Lessons: 12 Sculptures (1977) at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. A retrospective at the Begovich Gallery at Cal State Fullerton (2014) highlighted his career of continual self-reinvention, which led to a groundbreaking body of work.
11 Things Our Critics Are Looking Forward to in 2021
Nicolas Cage hosts the history of swearing. Lorde writes a book and Julie Mehretu takes over the Whitney. This new year has to be better, right?
Credit.María Medem
Dec. 31, 2020
As a new year begins, our critics highlight the TV, movies, music, art and streaming dance and theater they anticipate before summer.
Jason Zinoman
Sure, the new Netflix series “
History of Swear Words,” which premieres Jan. 5, features a cast of comics like Sarah Silverman, Joel Kim Booster and Nikki Glaser working as talking heads, breaking down the meaning, impact and poetry of six major bad words, which mostly cannot be published here. An exception is “Damn,” which, you learn from this show, used to be much more taboo than it is today. And there are also some very smart academics who will explain such history, some of it hard fact sprinkled in with a few questionable legends. Etymology really can be riveting stuff. But let’s face it: T
Findlay Galleries is proud to announce the opening of
Signs & Symbols on January 2nd, 2021 an exhibition exploring the highly important works of abstract surrealist, Leonard Edmondson. The California native, painter, printmaker, educator, and author, was born in Sacramento in 1916. His work can be found in many prestigious collections. He has garnered a long list of exhibitions at some of the most reputable institutions such as The Whitney Museum and the Guggenheim, the latter awarding him a grant in 1960. Edmondson’s abstract works are all-over compositions in which biomorphic shapes float through an atmosphere of soft color. His art is concerned with cognition and demonstrates his interest in relationships, both conceptual and formal. His paintings and prints share a delicate line, a concern with the tonal gradations of textured backgrounds, and a refined elegance.
At the Saint Louis Art Museum, artist Buzz Spector considers literature by playing editor Buzz Spector: Alterations is on view at SLAM until May 31.
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The contemporary conceptual artist Buzz Spector explains his process like this: âI stack things. I tear stuff up.â But those terse sentences belie a much more complex process of destructive creation. On display now at the Saint Louis Art Museum, âBuzz Spector: Alterationsâ considers the book and the page as objects of collection, touchstones of human interaction, and sources of raw material.Â
âAlterationsâ is a survey of the internationally recognized artistâs career. In it, the torn page and written word are mainstays. Sometimes whimsical and often philosophical, these works cause the viewer to pause and think about authorship and the possibilities of books and language. To make his altered books, Spector tears away pages to form new objects with new meanings. The books take on a wedge