Word: artisticness
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...however, Mudam may have a winner, a show that does justice to its elegant new quarters and tickles the imagination as well. The exhibition, open until May 7, features that rarest of commodities, a Luxembourg-born artist: Michel Majerus, who in an intense, tragically shortened career fused Pop, Minimalism and other genres with a punk sense of fun. Majerus was more a painter than a video or installation artist, so most of the 250 works in the show are canvases - big ones, some the size of billboards, all throbbing with color, text and images purloined from comic books and advertising...
...punctuated by stained-glass windows depicting body parts, and Tobias Putrih and Sancho Silva's plywood shapes that can be assembled by museumgoers into furniture of their own design. Mudam has purchased a few Majerus paintings, though nearly all those on display have been lent by other museums. The artist remains a favorite of curators worldwide, from London's Tate Modern to Mexico City's Jumex Collection...
...Majerus barely had time to enjoy his fame. He studied at the Stuttgart Academy in the early 1990s and, after barely a decade as a working artist, began to establish a reputation along with Franz Ackermann, Jorge Pardo, Tobias Rehberger and a rising generation of young iconoclasts. Majerus made waves by painting the entire façade of the Italian pavilion at the 1999 Venice Biennale with a pastiche of famous artworks. In 2002 he covered Berlin's famed Brandenburg Gate with a digital rendering of a graffiti-blighted East Berlin housing block...
...phenomenon, which started among retailers like Comme des Garçons and Target, has migrated to the art scene. Works by Banksy, a graffiti artist, are now so acclaimed that residents of London neighborhoods want to keep them as local attractions. Banksy was among those artists contributing to a one-month-only gallery on Oxford Street in December that proved so popular, security had to be hired to control the line waiting...
Around the same time that CNN tried to paint a broad stroke on the hip-hop canvas last week, it also took a zoomed in approach, airing another piece about the difficulties being faced by gay rappers in the industry. The featured artist, “Deadlee,” doesn’t have an upcoming release, a major-label deal, or any real reason to get airtime. Sure, openly gay rappers are about as common as openly gay NBA players (though the Tim Hardaways in the rap game are far more prevalent), but a report...