Camille Claudel's hand, not her trauma, is at the center of a magnificent Getty Museum show
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Los Angeles Times— A notable similarity marks a subcategory of once woefully under-recognized female artists of the past. Their resolute endurance of trauma is proposed as a primary reason to reassess their work today. At age 18, Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) survived the abusive manipulations of rape by the painter Agostino Tassi, a colleague in her studio. Public humiliation followed the private ordeal when she courageously took his assault to trial. Frida Kahlo (1907-54) endured decades of grueling pain...
The Guardian—‘Massive and exciting impact’: show celebrates Spain’s first abstract art museum. Exhibition explores how a Spanish-Filipino artist in 1966 opened a trailblazing cultural outpost in Cuenca’s ‘hanging houses’In July 1966, as the Beatles were preparing to release Revolver and Spain was approaching the 30th anniversary of the coup that birthed the Franco dictatorship, a Spanish-Filipino artist called Fernando Zóbel threw open the doors of an improbable but visionary cultural outpost.Based in a clutch of 15th-century houses overhanging a precipitous gorge in the small city of...
The Hollywood Reporter—Met Gala 2024: How to Literally Touch and Smell Fashion Details at The Met Museum’s New Costume Institute Show. Ahead of fashion’s upcoming, over-the-top night on May 6, curator Andrew Bolton talks about the ways his new show 'Sleeping Beauties' engages all the senses.
Digiday—How much is Possible’s future in Michael Kassan’s hands?. Some people in the know at Possible said they see the conference taking a bite out of Cannes' attendance, most acutely by U.S.-based marketers who could save money by staying on this side of the Atlantic.