By MICHAEL KIMMELMAN Published: November 30, 2010 BERLIN — The past still thrusts itself back into the headlines here, occasionally as an unexploded bomb turning up somewhere. Now it has reappeared as art. Marg Moll’s “Dancer,” from around 1930, is one of the found works in the “Degenerate Art” show at the Neues Museum in [...]
William Baziotes – Abstract Expressionist
William Baziotes, was born in Pittsburgh June 11th, 1912. His parents were Greek. From 1931 to 1933 he worked at Case Glass company in Reading, Pennsylvania, where he was painting glass and running general errands. He attended evening sketch classes and it was here that he met his lifelong friend Byron Vazakas, who was a [...]
An Interview with Nan Goldin
Nan Goldin interviewed by Adam Mazur and Paulina Skirgajllo-Krajewska If I want to take a picture, I take it no matter what Nan Goldin – Self-portrait red. Zurich. 2000 72.00 xI 04.00 x 4.50 cm Matthew Marks Gallery Your approach towards photography is very personal. Is not it a kind of therapy? Yes, [...]
Morris Louis
The American painter Morris Louis (Bernstein; 1912-1962) explored new realms of pictorial space with his series the “Veils”, the “Unfurleds”, and the “Stripes”. By exploiting the anonymous “stain” method, he formed a bridge between the Abstract Expressionists of the 1950s and the Minimalists of the 1960s. Number 32 Morris Louis Bernstein was born in Baltimore, [...]
