Word: artisticness
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...Klee saw it as the task of the artist to reconcile opposites. And so it was that the painter who liked to make funny little hand puppets for his son used deceptively playful images to deal with the darker issues of the times he lived in. One of the highlights of the exhibition is Klee's Angelus Novus, on loan from the Israel Museum in Jerusalem until the end of December. Rarely seen outside of Israel, the watercolor, depicting a strange creature that is part bird, part man and part angel, has sparked various interpretations over the years. Its former...
...lines in the shape of a swastika stretch like scars across what resembles a child's rendering of a human face. "The more horrifying this world becomes (as it is these days) the more art becomes abstract," Klee wrote in 1914. But while he thought it necessary for an artist to distance himself from "a shattered world," he never completely withdrew into abstraction. Behind the childlike drawings, dots and shapes, he was always grappling with the issues of his time...
Though he's widely traveled and keeps an apartment in Paris, Eggleston has worked mostly in the South. All the same, it makes him squirm to hear people describe him as a regional artist--Faulkner with a Leica. "I have never considered myself making what one would call Southern art," he says. "There is such a thing, but I don't do it." He insists he's not interested in local color, though there's no denying that it finds its way into a lot of his images. "The pictures look Southern because that's where they were taken...
...next day, Baird has magically transformed the materials into a form-fitting, golden dress. She works in The Vestis Council’s SOCH space, a room littered with old Haute fashion show programs, flowered shoes, and a pair of fairy wings. Amidst this chaos is an artist at work over her dressmaker mannequin. Lucy is adding her signature touch to the back of the dress, cutting out strips of black fabric and pinning them across an open back...
Night Vision. Van Gogh and the Colors of the Night is at New York City's Museum of Modern Art. The small exhibit includes the artist's masterpiece, "Potato Eaters," and other night-inspired paintings, drawings and letters. See the collection on MoMA's late night (Friday), then hit Danny Meyer's Modern bar and restaurant next door for drinks and small plates (sit in the Bar Room). The Alsatian thin-crust tart with crème fraîche, onion and applewood smoked bacon is perfect with a glass of white. The Van Gogh exhibit runs through...