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Oct 10, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Javier Miguel |Maya Tola |Sam Malone |Helen Jeffery
In 1937, the Nazi regime organized an exhibition in Munich that marked one of the darkest chapters in art history: the Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art). The show, featuring works confiscated from museums and private collections, had a clear purpose: to ridicule and discredit movements like Expressionism, Surrealism, and Cubism, along with their artists. Anything that did not fit the Nazi vision of “German art” became an enemy to be eradicated.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Aniela Rybak-Vaganay |Bec Brownstone |Joanna Kaszubowska |Helen Jeffery
Review min Read Abstract Expressionism Artist Stories When thinking of Georgia O’Keeffe many would have the image of her breathtaking renderings of nature. Did you know that she also made a series of paintings inspired by the city of New York? Now they are on view in the artist’s solo exhibition My New Yorks at the Art Institute of Chicago. This wonderful show gives us an insight into this lesser-known but nonetheless spectacular part of the artist’s oeuvre.
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Jun 3, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Emily Snow |Joanna Kaszubowska |Helen Jeffery |Kaena Daeppen
In her latest solo exhibition, American photographer Nan Goldin immerses viewers in the intimate highs and lows of the human experience—not as voyeurs or consumers, but as witnesses through her expertly artistic and empathetic lens. Originally organized in 2023 by the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, Nan Goldin: This Will Not End Well has embarked on a multiyear tour of Europe.
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May 16, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Joanna Kaszubowska |Helen Jeffery |Kaena Daeppen
Review min Read Design The Fabergé Girl, written by Ina Christova, takes you on a beautiful journey into early 20th century Saint Petersburg to explore side-by-side the magic luxury of the Fabergé workshop and the heart-breaking poverty that eventually erupted during the October Revolution. Interestingly, it is based on real characters and while the plot is fictionalized, it still gives you a good glimpse of the realities of pre-Soviet Russia.
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May 12, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Joanna Kaszubowska |Helen Jeffery |Kaena Daeppen |Candy Bedworth
Review min Read Artist Stories Barcelona is a wonderful city, with more than enough attractions to keep you busy, no matter how long you come for, or what your interest is. But what if you are an art lover, but would like to go beyond the usual UNESCO route of works by Antoni Gaudí? Do not fret! Ruby Boukabou has got you covered with her newest Art Lover’s Guide to Barcelona published by White Owl.
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May 9, 2024 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Helen Jeffery |Errika Gerakiti |Ruxi Rusu |Aniela Rybak-Vaganay
Collecting Art Can Be TransformativeThis book is for readers who want to do good in the world and who also love art. Resch proposes that collecting the art of under-represented artists—people of color, women, and others—serves both the art market and the new collector. Best of all, he tells us how to collect art even with a budget as spare as the trees in a Van Gogh drawing. Front cover of How to Collect Art, Magnus Resch, Phaidon Press, January 31, 2024.
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Dec 17, 2023 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Candy Bedworth |Celia Leiva Otto |Iolanda Munck |Helen Jeffery
Great art pushes boundaries and challenges norms. The philosopher Adorno claimed that every work of art is an uncommitted crime. But can art be a record of an actual crime? How should we react to works by controversial or even problematic artists with a horrendous history of abuse, racism, or misogyny? Controversial Conduct of Great Artists in History. Paul Gauguin, notorious for exploitation. Edgar Degas, scandalous for anti-Semitism. Carl Andre and Ana Mendieta, torn apart by murder.
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Dec 5, 2023 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Byzantine Art |Helen Jeffery |Errika Gerakiti |Javier Miguel
Read about the story Nicholas of Myra, the real Santa Claus, and his depictions in art—from the Byzantine empire to the modern times. Such art not only preserved the original stories but also adapted them for successive generations, ultimately giving rise to the New World folk hero, Santa Claus. Here are examples of how this enduring story has been visually told.
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Nov 27, 2023 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Magda Michalska |Helen Jeffery |Emily Snow |Candy Bedworth
Painting Being a prophet in one’s own land is a challenge that extends to artists as well. Carl Larsson, now one of Sweden’s most celebrated painters, initially faced little success in his home country. However, a transformative shift occurred when he relocated to a Scandinavian artistic community near Paris and transitioned from oils to watercolors. But today’s story is not about prophecies but homes.
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Nov 19, 2023 | 
dailyartmagazine.com | Andreea Ruxandra Iancu |Maya Tola |Sam Malone |Helen Jeffery
History min Read Baroque The Golden Age of the Dutch Republic was a flourishing period for culture and economy, yet it wasn’t characterized by peace. The Dutch Republic engaged in the Eighty Years’ War from 1568 to 1648 against the Spanish Empire for independence. Throughout this period, artists actively sought to instill a Dutch national consciousness within the populace.
