
Emily Watlington
Art Critic and Assistant Editor at Art in America
art critic & senior editor @artinamerica; aspiring spargel konigin; she/her
Articles
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2 weeks ago |
artnews.com | Emily Watlington
Fiber art is everywhere these days, in case you haven’t heard. And the trend tends toward work that is clearly labor-intensive and handmade, favoring folk traditions and natural fibers—which is hardly how any of us encounters fibers in the wild. Giulia Crețulescu’s work stands apart for being made of material that’s more familiar: synthetic fabric. She sources it from a Ford automotive factory near her hometown—Craiova, Romania—repurposing the stuff of cheap seats.
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2 weeks ago |
artnews.com | Emily Watlington
In her cartoonish yet sophisticated paintings of people, Louise Bonnet toes lots of lines—between familiarity and misrecognition, seduction and ick. Speaking of toes, she is especially skilled at painting big ones, those underappreciated appendages that allow us to stand upright and thus, according to Georges Bataille, be human.
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2 weeks ago |
artnews.com | Emily Watlington
Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Marsha: the Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson, by the artist Tourmaline. It releases out May 20 from Tiny Reparations Marsha remained fiercely committed to making the world better through her activism.
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3 weeks ago |
artnews.com | Emily Watlington
Pictures shot dead-on and then arranged in rows or grids comprise almost every contribution to “Typologien,” a survey of 20th-century German photography at the Fondazione Prada in Milan. No horizon line is even mildly crooked, and all fall where they ought to—in the picture’s bottom third—or else are eliminated by way of a backdrop or an aerial view. That’s not surprising; Germans are famous for their love of rules, plenty of which, when it comes to photography, they invented themselves.
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1 month ago |
artnews.com | Emily Watlington
Amalia Ulman broke the internet in 2014when she started an Instagram account for posting images of her beauty routine. There, she thanked followers for supporting her as she underwent plastic surgery and solicited opinions on her hair color and outfits. It was all a performance, soon titled Excellences and Perfections, designed to draw out revealing reactions and highlight the way that social media can frame women as yours to look at.
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