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...energy and Renaissance idealism. Or maybe not - Caravaggio was never cut out to make peace with the past. His real instinct was forward, into pictures like David with the Head of Goliath, possibly one of his last. The victorious David, rumored to have been modeled after one of the artist's male lovers, holds the severed head of Goliath, a plain self-portrait of the artist. The painting is Caravaggio at the height of his lethal powers. Throughout his life he included his own likeness in his canvases. But in exile, as he meditated more forcefully on his fate...
...Artist, author, restaurateur and musician Moby is releasing a double album, Hotel, on March...
WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL IN KENTUCKY IN 1974, I WAS into the arts. I was a dancer, in the drama club, on the debate team. I was an artist. I had no chemistry, no physics and no calculus at all. But one day at a mandatory high school lecture, a civil-engineering professor from the University of Kentucky arrived to speak, showing all these renderings of buildings. I was fascinated with the fact that I might actually be able to draw and get paid for it. And according to him, I could improve the quality of life...
Walls didn't belong to anyplace growing up. Her father was an itinerant electrician who dreamed of being an inventor; her mother was an occasional schoolteacher who dreamed of being an artist. Both were failures at everything. But they chose to spin their inability to stick to anything as a glorious crusade against bourgeois conformity, and they dragged their kids along for the ride. In her extraordinary book The Glass Castle, Walls describes a childhood spent careering across the country, from California to West Virginia, in a succession of ever more rattletrap cars, in pursuit of increasingly implausible get-rich...
...Hayward Gallery's exhibition "Africa Remix," the city is hosting "Africa 05," a yearlong series of events celebrating art and culture from across the continent. Running until April 16, "Africa Remix" is as colorful, diverse and dynamic as Africa itself. The largest show of contemporary African artists ever seen in Europe, it features paintings, sculptures, installations, drawings, photography, film and video by some 70 artists from 23 countries stretching from Morocco to Mozambique. The "remix" concept?blending old and new, sacred and mundane?is an apt metaphor for contemporary African art. Ghanaian artist El Anatsui makes a dazzling metal cloth...