Art Bites: Is This Famed Manet Painting Also a Beer Ad?
An Édouard Manet painting of a popular Parisian establishment doubles as advertising for a British beer brewery.
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An Édouard Manet painting of a popular Parisian establishment doubles as advertising for a British beer brewery.
L.A. artist Joey Terrill's vibrant canvases, on view at Marc Selwyn Fine Art, chronicle intimate moments of queer Chicano life: heartbreak and love and life with HIV.
WRITER CHRIS KRAUS devotes a long section of her 1997 book I Love Dick to artist Hannah Wilke, who had passed away from lymphoma a few years earlier. Identifying with Wilke’s reputation as a “female monster,” Kraus glimpsed what few other writers at the time could see. Over a career spanning more than three decades, from the late 1950s until her last days in the cancer ward, where she died at age fifty-two, Wilke treated her art as a vector of her desire, “continuously exposing [herself] to whatever situation occurs,” as she put it in a 1976 statement. Rejected as a shameless exhibit...