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**ROB OBER: NO IDEOLOGY, PLEASE. THIS ART IS REAL.
“I am suspicious of art informed or directed by ideas or any ideology,” the American artist Rob Ober says. Keeping it real, authentic, shot through with a real pulse, and wildly colorful, Ober’s work feels irresistibly spontaneous and fresh. See. React. Paint. Here, the artist, who grew up all over the place, shares some thoughts about his art. Note to self: We’re in love with those gators. Click here to see article.
**JAMAICAN INTUITIVES: IT’S RAS DIZZY’S WORLD
Ras Dizzy (circa 1932-2008) was one of the most important of the Jamaican Intuitives, a group of self-taught artists whose works began to earn recognition in Jamaica in the late 1970s and notably contributed to shaping a sense of the postcolonial, independent island country’s national cultural identity. A selection of Dizzy’s works from a unique private collection. Click here to see article.
**A BIG, BOLD NEW BOOK: FRANÇOIS JAUVION’S TRIBUTE TO ART BRUT AND OUTSIDER ART MASTERS
In 2020, the French artist François Jauvion’s large-format book L’imagier singulier was published. It featured his own illustrations and texts by various specialists about the lives and accomplishments of numerous art brut and outsider artists. Now, a second volume of Jauvion’s big opus is here. See our overview of L’imagier singulier, Tome 2. Click here to see article.
**ARTIST CATHY WARD: IN LONDON, THE PSYCHIC, SOULFUL MESSAGES OF “THE ORACLES”
Like many art-makers, what with the effects of the coronavirus pandemic period and other concerns, the London-based artist Cathy Ward, who works in various media and genres, has wrestled with numerous, big challenges. Recently, as if purging the negative energy surrounding her, Ward sat down in a corner of her home to create a series of bold, mystical paintings. “They allowed me to reset myself,” she says. See a portfolio of these powerful new pictures. Click here to see article.
**PHOTOGRAPHER JOEL SIMPSON: CAPTURING NATURE’S BIZARRE CREATIVE SPIRIT — AND POWER
The photographer Joel Simpson travels widely in search of unusual natural rock formations and strange textures in the surface of the earth. Here, a selection of new photos from Simpson’s latest expeditions to the Southwest of the U.S.A. illustrates a theoretical approach he has developed to appreciating such striking images. As he notes, it leads viewers “from traditional landscape through abstraction, figuration, and finally to fiction." Click here to see article.
**OFF THE WALL: NEW YORK CITY STREET POETS AND VISIONARIES, THE KENNETH GOLDSMITH COLLECTION
In the 1980s, Kenneth Goldsmith, a poet and university professor, began tearing off anonymously made, handwritten ads, religious-themed proclamations, and oddball declarations that he found posted on walls and lampposts on the streets of New York City. A bemusing selection of such bizarre “poetry” was recently shown at Andrew Edlin Gallery. Click here to see article.
**GENEVA, SWITZERLAND: EMMANUEL HERZ’S JELLYFISH INVASION
Earlier this year, at the café/restaurant Remor in Geneva, Switzerland, we stumbled upon a stunning display of Emmanuel Herz’s festive “Fascinantes Méduses” (“Fascinating Jellyfish”), a group of sculptures and paintings that had taken over the old joint’s ceiling lamps and walls. We were smitten — and maybe also bitten. See out photo-filled report. Click here to see article.
CHICAGO EXHIBITION: TORTURE, TEA, AND ART
In Remaking the Exceptional: Tea, Torture, and Reparations | Chicago to Guantánamo, an exhibition on view at the DePaul Art Museum in Chicago, the themes of torture, tea, and art as a vehicle for documenting the past and sharing painful memories come together in dramatic ways — and sometimes with a chilling impact. Sarah Fensom reports.
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WHEN ART CASTS AN EYE ON NATURE’S FORCES
Nature has long seized the imagination of artists who have been intrigued by its beauty, mystery, diversity, and power, and who have felt compelled to represent these phenomena in their work. This month, we check in with a group of artists who have examined such subjects as the wind, the pyschic meanings of the human pulse, and the sense of smell. Mama Nature! Free access to this article.
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TOD HANSON: A HOUSE, A FANTASY, ANOTHER WORLD
In the northernmost town in England, Tod Hanson has a vision for his Georgian-period house, whose rooms he is transforming, with boldly painted, geometric designs, into an exquisite fantasy showcase. Cathy Ward, our London-based artist-correspondent, traveled north to visit the striking site.
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MICHAEL NEWMAN: JAPAN IN THE INK
Catching up with the artist Michael Newman, who spent many years in Japan developing a dynamic painting technique that blends Western gestural abstraction and Eastern calligraphic brush work. Now based in Taiwan, he tells us how East Asian art has informed his own. Free access to this article.
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TAKESADA MATSUTANI IN NEW YORK
Takesada Matsutani, a former member of the influential Gutai Art Association, a group of avant-garde artists who were active in post-World War II Japan from 1954, recently exhibited his latest works at Hauser & Wirth in New York. We catch up with this tireless innovator, who has long been based in Paris. Coming soon.
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