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7 Questions for Gallerist Christian Berst About How He Put Art Brut on the Map

Wandering Eye:A Look Below the Surface - The Magazine Antiques

Wandering Eye:A Look Below the Surface Editorial Staff Photograph © Bodleian Libraries. The Dig explores the discovery of the Sutton Hoo burial ground in England. It’s a beautiful story that focuses on the relationship between the widow owner of the property, and the archaeologist she hired to excavate the treasures, but the film does not delve much into the objects contained. While the significance of the find is clear, it leaves us wanting to know more. Here’s a start. ( Smithsonian Magazine) The objects contained at the site changed everything in terms of understanding the medieval Anglo-Saxon period and shed light on a period historians previously had little knowledge of. As stated in the film, “the dark ages are no longer dark.” However, since those buried in the mounds were the upper crust of medieval society, the day-to-day lives of peasants remain less clear. Much of what we know about “those who work” is from legal documents on crime, conflict, and inherit

Photography in the raw

It’s great that the American Folk Art Museum doesn’t charge admission these days. More than one visit may be needed to absorb its landmark e

Photography in the Raw

Photography in the Raw The humbling exhibition “Photo Brut” brings together generations of self-taught artists who appropriate photographs or create their own. The Japanese artist Ichiwo Sugino achieves his impersonations in “Photo Brut” mostly with adhesive tape and posts them on his Instagram account. Subjects include cultural figures from Thomas Edison to Alfred Hitchcock to Martin Scorsese and Andy Warhol.Credit.Ichiwo Sugino Feb. 4, 2021 It’s great that the American Folk Art Museum doesn’t charge admission these days. More than one visit may be needed to absorb its landmark exhibition “Photo Brut: Collection Bruno Decharme & Compagnie.” This jaw-dropping, sometimes heart-rending show a larger version of which was seen at a photography festival in Arles, France, last summer is a cornucopia of established and unfamiliar names, from the celebrated Henry Darger to the all-but-unknown Ichiwo Sugino; improvised mediums and often painful stories of isolated l

Through a Glass, Darkly and Brightly - The Magazine Antiques

Through a Glass, Darkly and Brightly Elizabeth Pochoda Collection of the artist, © Ichiwo Sugino. Except as noted, photographs courtesy of the American Folk Art Museum, New York. Difficult times for the American Folk Art Museum went public in 2011, when its building, a gem by the architects’ Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, was sold to the Museum of Modern Art. Despite much vocal opposition, MoMA eventually reduced that gem to rubble in 2014, making way for nothing comparable on 53rd Street. So much for the legacy of the brave little folk art museum? Not at all. Even during its darkest days, the museum soldiered on with solid exhibitions in its tidy galleries at 2 Lincoln Square, and then, in 2015, roared back with something more surprising, pathbreaking, and revelatory than anything MoMA can claim to have done.

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