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...sister come from the same tiny village in Pakistan's rural Sind province and were raised by the same parents. But they have chosen two radically different paths. Attiya is a poet and women's rights activist. Unlike many Pakistani women, she married the man she loved, the painter Khuda Bux Abro, and is so unconcerned with the trappings of religion that acquaintances sometimes ask if she is even a Muslim. Attiya's thoroughly modern girls, aged 7 and 11, wear T shirts, jeans and short, sleeveless dresses and read Enid Blyton novels and the Guinness Book of World Records...
What does your bottom mean to you? What is the significance of your rear end? No, this is not Porn 101, but rather one of the many topics that the Nigerian painter and photographer Ike Udé explores in his exhibit “Beyond Decorum,” currently on display in the Sert Gallery in the Carpenter Center...
...asked what they have heard of from South America, the answer tends to be pretty much the same: two dead Mexicans and one live Colombian. The Mexicans are, of course, Diego Rivera, a great artist by any standard, and his wife Frida Kahlo, not a great painter by any reasonable judgment, but a tough and gifted woman who, owing to her hagiographic suffering (not to mention being ardently collected by the likes of Madonna), has become Exhibit A, by now somewhere above Artemisia Gentileschi in the pantheon of feminist art-saints. The live Colombian is probably the richest artist alive...
Decades ago, the great New York City painter Stuart Davis christened one of his pictures Colonial Cubism--a splendidly witty reference to the dilemma American artists found themselves in when they looked across the Atlantic to Paris. How could you get out of the colonial bind--the sense of being condemned, in the name of avant-garde aspiration, to imitate the outer forms of avant-gardism, to keep doing the new at second hand? This was the problem for South American modernists too--and in spades. The whole relation of South American art to Europe and then, after...
...master of the dot in French painting? Georges Seurat, most would answer. But there was at least one other: Seurat's friend and luminous fellow painter, Neo-Impressionist Paul Signac (1863-1935). Signac, an avid yachtsman, helped create the French Riviera as a subject for painting--and Saint-Tropez, where he settled from 1892 on, as a mecca for tourism. His pursuit of pure color sensation, the yellow of beaches and the purple of shade under the umbrella-pines, made his canvases radical in their time. Yet to a modern eye, his paradisiacal view of the world--a world...