Holbein biography interrogates the artist’s life and work from a different angle – The Art Newspaper
Consider Hans Holbein the Younger’s portrait of Henry VIII’s fourth wife, Anne of Cleves: an enigmatic look, cast from beneath ...
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October Book Bag: from a myth-busting Chaïm Soutine biography to an anthology of Palestinian artists and writers – The Art Newspaper
Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession and a Dramatic Life in Art, Celeste Marcus, PublicAffairs, 304pp, $34 (hb)This biography of the expressionist ...
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Biography of Peter Gregory reveals a modest ‘businessman’ who was a driving force in art publishing – The Art Newspaper
In 1944, the first substantial monograph of the British sculptor Henry Moore was published by Lund Humphries. Produced under wartime ...
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Glenn Ligon in Cambridge, new Gauguin biography, Teresa Margolles’s Fourth Plinth commission — podcast
This week: the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, UK, has invited the US artist Glenn Ligon to explore its history and ...
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Michael Lewis’s SBF Biography Will Confuse Folks About Crypto
Lewis contrasts SBF, the ascetic, with one other male character, whom he compares to “each man in crypto,” somebody who ...
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How nearly assembly Alberto Giacometti the week he died impressed a brand new biography
The creator and artwork historian Michael Peppiatt is candid about his artwork passions: in 2015, he printed a frank memoir ...
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Richard Smith biography highlights the affect of the US metropolis on his work
In autumn 1959 Richard Smith (1931-2016) made his inaugural go to to America, crusing by liner from Southampton to New ...
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Laura Poitras’s Nan Goldin documentary powerfully balances biography with anti-Sackler activism
If there have been any doubts about how the Nan Goldin bio-doc All of the Magnificence and the Bloodshed would ...
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from Lucian Freud’s love letters to an Edie Sedgwick biography
As It Turns Out, Alice Sedgwick Wohl, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 272pp, $28 (hb)Andy Warhol’s muse, Edie Sedgwick, has taken ...
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