Party Pictures: Poussin and Watteau
Music and dance: two French fantasies Nicolas Poussin and Antoine Watteau at the Getty by Bondo Wyszpolski Let’s do this chronologically…
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Music and dance: two French fantasies Nicolas Poussin and Antoine Watteau at the Getty by Bondo Wyszpolski Let’s do this chronologically…
For a work of conceptual art, Roelof Louw’s Soul City (Pyramid of Oranges) (1967) is unusually generous. Some 5,800 oranges are stacked neatly in a wooden frame on the floor of a gallery. Then visitors are allowed to help themselves to the fruit. By the time I saw it in the big conceptual art show at Tate Britain in 2016, the pyramid had dwindled: it looked more like a ball pit for toddlers, as improvised by a greengrocer. Louw’s oranges, in their abundance and with their more or less uniform shapes, are everyday things; you might see them piled like this, if not in such quantities, on a...
Books to look out for in 2021 As 2021 dawns, we have rounded up key art books for the new year, highlighting important tomes we hope will get you through the next 12 months. Enjoy and please sign up to our free newsletter for more Book Club content. Jean Dubuffet, Skedaddle (L’Escampette), 31 October 1964, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam © Fondation Dubuffet, Paris / ADAGP, Paris and DACS, London 2020 Jean Dubuffet: Brutal Beauty (Prestel) by Eleanor Nairne, ed Le Havre-born artist Jean Dubuffet remains a somewhat enigmatic figure to UK audiences, a void that wi...