Grace Linden

Sep 17, 2024 | the-fence.com | Grace Linden |Miles Ellingham |Cormac Kehoe |Charlie Baker

Marvelling at gymnastic displays in Hackney. Beginning in the 1930s, as the cult of healthy living continued to spread across the United States, a handful of gymnasts and athletes began to gather on the beaches of Santa Monica to practise human pyramids, and throngs flocked to watch bronzed babes perform tricks. Inspired by the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games, the city installed a wooden platform, parallel bars and a set of rings. Muscle Beach was born.

Aug 8, 2024 | the-fence.com | Miles Ellingham |Cormac Kehoe |Charlie Baker |Grace Linden

An anonymous probation officer tells us about their working life. The hotel, perched on a London ring road, was sky blue. Everything else was grey: the flyover, car showrooms, a dirty river that ran alongside the building. Sometimes swans would glide down there, looking like they had taken a wrong turn.

Mar 3, 2024 | estadao.com.br | Grace Linden

No fim de 2022, recebi um convite para visitar Gana com um acompanhante a fim de pesquisar a obra do artista ganense Ibrahim Mahama, reconhecido pela sua participação na 56ª Bienal de Veneza em 2015. A missão era compreender o contexto do seu trabalho e também investigar o cenário em ascensão da arte contemporânea no país. Nas últimas décadas, o cenário artístico se expandiu para além das fronteiras europeias e norte-americanas, dando origem a um mercado mais globalizado.

May 17, 2023 | psyche.co | Grace Linden

When I teach introductory art history, I often start by showing students Jan van Eyck’s Arnolfini Portrait (1434) and ask them what they see. There’s a lot to look at in the painting: lavish textiles, an ornate chandelier, the crisp gleam of a leather belt; a hat, a mirror. After some initial hesitation, my students – mostly teenagers – will start to toss out details. They note that the painting’s subjects are holding hands, that the man looks stern, that the people are pale, that he controls her.