Word: artistes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kicking off the festival on Thursday night was the Choreographers' Ink Alumni Modern Dance Concert, featuring the choreography of visiting artist Christopher G. L. Caines '85-'86 and several dancing graduates...
...country of immigrants, the question of who is and who is not an American artist is always a vexing one. In the early 20th century, modernism itself was attacked as an "alien," or immigrant, form. America has never been short of blood-in-the-eye nativists and cultural conservatives (not a few of them painters, like Thomas Hart Benton), who believed that the art of Jews, gays and anyone else they disliked couldn't be really American. Such primitivism is gone now--or, at any rate, nobody who cares about art would deploy it. Obviously, the question...
...appalled that your cover with an artist's rendition of our forebears showed only white people. This implies that American history was shaped exclusively by whites and that the rest of us somehow just happened along for the ride, like so much human ballast. Your cover was dishonest and irresponsible. TASHA HINTZE New York City...
...Museum of Fine Arts, ten from her Ordinary/Extraordinary series, and four from her Women, Words, and Water series. Together, these elemental paintings form the main structure of her new exhibit, Images of Women Near and Far and highlight two decades worth of work by this contemporary figurative artist...
Stevens is often criticized for telling too much about the underlying meaning of her work. Some critics say she should just "let go" and allow the paintings to speak for themselves. As an observer who prefers to make my own interpretations of an artist's work, I was surprised at how much I enjoyed hearing her secrets. It's a shame for those who don't get the chance to witness her passion in person. Listening to Stevens speak about her art was like uncovering hidden treasures, delectable for the eye and the mind. All is not lost, however. Anyone...