Our weekly round-up of news from the art world
Sharon Lockhart gives voice to ‘troubled girls’ and Jewish orphans at the Venice Biennale
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For her project in the Polish pavilion, the photographer pays tribute to a pediatrician and writer who pioneered children’s rights
Sharon Lockhart, Little Review, 2017 (Image: courtesy of the artist and Zachęta—National Gallery of Art)
Julian Stanczak, Abstract Painter, Dies at 88
By Roberta Smith / The New York Times
Julian Stanczak, a Polish-born American abstract painter who rose to fame as a leading figure of the popular Op Art movement but slipped into obscurity when its reputation flagged, died on March 25 at his home in Seven Hills, Ohio, a Cleveland suburb. He was 88.
Julian Stanczak at his home in Ohio in 2013.
Documenta 14, a German Art Show’s Greek Revival
By Jason Fargo / The New York Times
ATHENS — Even today, in a supersaturated calendar of worldwide art events, no show matters more than Documenta, a colossal German exhibition of contemporary art, reinvented every five or so years as a “museum of 100 days.”
Patrons take in Daniel García Andújar’s “Disasters of War” at the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Athens. Eirini Vourloumis for The New York Times
What We Can Learn from Artistic Unions in Poland
Courtesy of Katarzyna Górna & Katarzyna Błahuta.
A Brief History of Drag in the Art World
By Amelia Abraham/ Artsy Editorial
Drag has a rich cultural history, spanning cross-dressing performances and deliberate parodies of fixed roles of gender and sexuality. Men have been performing on stage as women since the Ancient Greek tragedies, Shakespeare famously cast men as women, and Baroque operas featured early examples of drag.
© Charles Atlas; courtesy of the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York
From the Contemporary Lynx archives:
Into the studio: Edward Krasinski
by Laura Robertson
Ahead of his major retrospective opening this week at Tate Liverpool, we visit the lovingly preserved former studio and home of Polish artist Edward Krasiński — uncovering ostrich eggs, VAT receipts, blue Scotch tape, toy mice, and all…
A collection of photographs and postcards. Edward Krasiński’s studio apartment, Warsaw, Poland, 2016
