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A NUMBER of news stories in the past week have illustrated the importance of getting right policies designed to foster inclusion. During her Covid briefing on Tuesday, the First Minister encouraged pregnant women to get the vaccine. Later that day, the Scottish Government’s official Twitter account put out the same advice but used the phrase “pregnant people”. A lively debate ensued between those who argued that only women get pregnant and that the language used risked missing its target audience and those applauding the use of language which is inclusive of trans men and non-binary people with a womb.
First survey exhibition in the United States of Marcia Schvartz opens at 55 Walker
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.- 55 Walker (Bortolami, kaufmann repetto, and Andrew Kreps Gallery) opened the first survey exhibition in the United States of Marcia Schvartz (b. 1955, Argentina). The exhibition spans across five decades of the artists practice, from the 1970s to today, and will be accompanied by a full text by art historian Lucy Hunter, supported by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA).
Marcia Schvartzs practice is grounded in the expressive yet rigorous rendering of the human figure, working with painting, ceramic, textile, sculpture, assemblage, and performance. She is best recognized for her figurative paintings that depict the complexity of cosmopolitan social dynamics. Illustrating the political history of Argentina through personal and populist terms, Schvartzs work has a recurrent focus on female figures which she represents in a radical anti-pa
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A life-size recreation of Bedroom in Arles, part of Van Gogh: The Immersive Experience at Skylight on Vesey Street in New York, June 5, 2021. Two immersive van Gogh exhibitions make a critic reflect on her encounters with his paintings and question what it means to have an intimate connection with an artist. Sam Youkilis/The New York Times.
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.- In 2017, I took a trip to Paris, where I greedily took in as much art as I could. In one of the cavernous chambers of the ornate Musée dOrsay was the Vincent van Gogh exhibition, his framed works (Starry Night Over the Rhône, Bedroom in Arles, The Church at Auvers, a number of his self-portraits) set against a brazen sapphire background rather than the usual chaste white museum walls. Ive had a poster of Starry Night, gifted to me by a college friend, since my undergraduate dorm days. It hangs framed in my bedroom today. At Musée dOr
May 24, 2021
NFTs to be Sold in Online-Only Auction and Redeemable for Tangible Works from the Artist s Cloud of Petals Project
HONG KONG, May 24, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Phillips is pleased to announce the sale of Bitchcoin by conceptual artist Sarah Meyohas, an early pioneer in the crypto field.
Exhibition view of Sarah Meyohas: Cloud of Petals. Red Bull Arts New York, in New York City, NY, USA on 10 October, 2017
Predating the launch of Ethereum by five months, in February 2015, Meyohas released Bitchcoin , one of the first tokenizations of art on the blockchain. Though artworks in their own right, these coins were tied to and redeemable for unique examples from the artist s physical oeuvre. Now, working directly with the artist Phillips will offer 5 bundles of a total of 480 Bitchcoins in an online-only sale, open for bidding from 25-28 May. These new Bitchcoins are backed by pressed and preserved rose petals from Meyohas 2017