Cultural figures find perils to speaking out and staying silent about Mideast crisis wclk.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wclk.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
THROUGHOUT THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, modern and contemporary art in the West sought either to cheat history or to travesty it. To cheat history is to outrun it in gestures aimed at utopian schemes (as envisioned by Suprematism or the artists of De Stijl) or dystopian destruction (as in Futurism or some variants of Dada). Among modernist avant-gardes, history offered a necessary dialectical framework for its own supersession this is why the rhetoric of revolution remains so appealing and ubiquitous in accounts of modern art. Paradoxically, this legacy has been codified or canonized (and certainly
WE SLIP INTO REVERIE. The traditional death notices along the passages and vaporetto stops around Venice have more faces than usual. The blue and yellow flag of Ukraine flaps in the cold breeze blowing off the lagoon. The carnival masks stare from shop windows at the face masks of those on the other side of the glass. Mingling with the throngs of holiday tourists, an art world sweeps in on boats and trains, buses and planes into the Most Serene Republic for the professional days of the fifty-ninth Biennale di Venezia after a long pandemicked wait of three years, and amid a war of aggression in
LOUISE FISHMAN: VALLES MARINERIS, 1992 - Artforum International artforum.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artforum.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.