Gego. Weaving the Space In Between.
May 11, 2023
Mónica Amor — In 1994 the late art critic and curator Lourdes Blanco wrote that “one day it will be determined with precision how Gertrude Goldschmidt assumed its magic conversion… READ MORE
Tag: 20th century art
Arbiter of Tumultuous Times: Kurt Schwitters
April 26, 2022
Interview with Graham Bader by David Ebony The years immediately following World War I were times of global socio-political upheaval. A new world order was evolving, especially in Europe, and… READ MORE
Sounding Alma Thomas
July 8, 2021
Jonathan Frederick Walz— Perspicacious art historian Melissa Ho—who, in her role as curator of twentieth-century art at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, oversees the largest public collection of Alma Thomas… READ MORE
Patterns of Promiscuity: The Pattern and Decoration Movement in American Art of the 1970s and ’80s
May 26, 2020
Interview with curator and author Anna Katz by David Ebony Pattern & Decoration (P&D) was an intense, but short-lived avant-garde art movement spanning the early 1970s, through the mid-1980s. It… READ MORE
Long Distance Affair: Latin American Artists in the “City of Light”
May 18, 2018
Interview with author Michele Greet By David Ebony At the turn of the twentieth century, Paris was electric in many ways. Electric street lights replaced gas lamps, and the hyper-energized… READ MORE
Brazil’s First Art Cannibal: Tarsila do Amaral
December 1, 2017
Interview with curators Stephanie D’Alessandro and Luis Pérez-Oramas by David Ebony The paintings of Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral (1886-1973)—simply known as Tarsila—and the theory of Anthropophagy, or the philosophy… READ MORE
The Modern Experience of Surfaces (sneak peek)
April 20, 2017
This summer, Yale University Press is delighted to publish a smart book about the transformation of photography and the visual arts around the year 1968. The book is The Recording… READ MORE
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