NYTIMES (Blake Gopnik) - Yayoi Kusama Was the Avant-Garde Radical Who Became a Pop Icon
In her mass-produced ubiquity, Kusama became one of her own dots, spreading her image into every corner of our culture.
NYTIMES (Jori Finkel) - How Paul Williams Built White and Black Los Angeles
A pioneering architect’s archive, long thought lost, was preserved by his family. Now, three museums are featuring the work of a man who broke California’s color barrier.
NYTIMES (Zachary Small) - Trump Officials Propose Sale of ‘Woke’ Painting by Kehinde Wiley
The State Department recently removed the painting of Dominicans from a U.S. embassy, noting it was by the artist who made Barack Obama’s presidential portrait.
AMERICANTHINKER - Between Light And Dark
Photo Credit:Caravaggio, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Public Domain By Lars Møller The Italian painter Caravaggio, whose name has become synonymous with the chiaroscuro technique, seemed to live as dramatically and exploratively as he painted—life as a constant balancing act between opposites, between light and dark.
NYTIMES (Elie Levine and Sasha Arutyunova) - Preserving Hanji, the Ancient Korean Craft of Papermaking, in Ohio
Aimee Lee learned to make hanji with Korean masters. Now she practices their traditional technique in the United States.
NYTIMES (Robin Pogrebin) - For Museum Boss Who Became a Trump Target, It’s Déjà Vu All Over Again
Kim Sajet left as director of the National Portrait Gallery when she found herself in the White House cross hairs. Now she’s watching another Smithsonian chief go through it.
NYTIMES (Zachary Small) - The Artist Matthew Taylor Is Helping Trump Reshape Washington
Matthew Taylor, a conceptual artist and political strategist, made influential ads and documentaries produced by Steve Bannon. Now he’s assisting the White House.
NYTIMES (Travis Diehl and Brad Trone) - He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard Of
Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?
NYTIMES (Travis Diehl and Brad Trone) - He’s the Last Great Land Artist You’ve Never Heard of
Charles Ross spent 50 years building “Star Axis,” a naked-eye observatory in New Mexico. Now his masterwork is ready. How to share it with a changed world?
STRIPES - From the archives: US soldier designs stained glass windows for chapels in South Korea, 1965 | Stars and Stripes
A man watches installation of a pane in one of the stained glass windows he is designing for the two chapels at Yongsan Compound.