Welcome to Potentials of Art
A glimpse into marvelous perspectives of Art
by many fine writers.
Native American Artist, Brian Jungen, Bridges Gap Between Indigenous & Mass Cultures
One Man’s Trash is Brian Jungen’s Treasure By Megan Gambino SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINE Brian Jungen wanted to get out of his Vancouver studio and spend some time outdoors. In April 2008, he headed for Australia and pitched camp on Cockatoo Island in Sydney Harbor....
Fahrelnissa Zeid: Artist forgotten by history, now re-introduced.
Written by Hannah Ellis-Petersen Painter had illustrious global career during her lifetime – She was an artist of such “force and originality”, says Tate Modern, ( the exhibit was from June to October, 2017) that it is astonishing that Fahrelnissa Zeid should...
Nina Paley’s Animations of Ancient Female Art & her video, You Gotta Believe
Thanks to Nina Paley for the original animations and @skalpa Pascal Blanchard II for creating the film. http://blog.ninapaley.com/…/24-free-go…/
The Pigment Made of Human Remains & More Surprizes
By Kelly Grovier, April 2018 / New book taking a forensic look at art history’s greatest colours / Colour is the soul of art. It’s what pulls us into the over-ripening gold of Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers and what whorls our spirit perilously into the...
11 Radical Latin American Women Artists You Should Know
By Alexxa Gotthardt / Ask an average person to name an Latin American woman artist, and they’ll most likely mention Frida Kahlo. There’s no disputing Kahlo’s place in the art-historical canon as a master of Surrealism and self-portraiture. But even she confronted...
How to Be an Artist, According to Henri Matisse
By Kim Hart / In the early 20th century, a 30-something Frenchman named Henri Matisse shocked the Parisian art world with his painting Woman with a Hat (1905). His application of radically expressive colors to his subject—teal on her face, orange on her neck,...
Remembering: How John Berger Changed Our Way of Seeing Art
Authors: Yasmin Gunaratnam / Reader in Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London and Vicki Bell / Professor of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London / The opening to John Berger’s most famous written work, the 1972 book Ways of Seeing, offered...
Pleasure, Politics, and Beauty
Jessica Stockholder / Art21.org / PBS / Reprinted A good interview with Jessica Stockholder. She talks about her ideas of beauty and abstraction in relation to formalist aesthetics. ART21: Do you think abstract forms have meaning? STOCKHOLDER: People sometimes think...
Art and Politics: Power of Creativity and Activism Across the Globe
Some thoughtful words about global art by Annette Blum / Artistic projects of all kinds are so much a part of the fabric of our society/culture and continue to be tremendously inspirational, carrying a strong message and having the ability to resonate with large...
Here’s How Drawing, Art Helps With Memory
Taylor Dafoe /2019/artnet News/ Above photo: An elderly man attends an art therapy class at the Malakhovka centre for geriatric care and rehabilitation in the village of Malakhovka outside Moscow. The centre provides individual care for elderly people with the...
The Death of the Artist—and the Birth of the Creative Entrepreneur
WILLIAM DERESIEWICZ / from Alantic Monthly Magazine/ Hard-working artisan, solitary genius, credentialed professional—the image of the artist has changed radically over the centuries. What if the latest model to emerge means the end of art as we...
As the Restitution Debate Rages on in Europe, Could the Solution Lie in the Art of the High-Tech Copy?
Authors: Kate Brown & Naomi Rea / December 2018 / from artnet/Technologies like VR and 3D modeling could have a role to play in the conversation about the restitution of colonial-era objects. In 2015, a duo of artists unveiled a 3D-printed copy of the bust of...