YOUR READING ROOM AT VOMA
This is where you can come to read further on the artists and concepts you’ve encountered here at VOMA.
With thanks to Xavier Lust for providing the Reading Room bench: http://www.xavierlust.com/
Gallery Zero - Why We Shout: Art and Protest
Banksy
John Collier
Eugène Delacroix
Pussy Riot
Faith Ringgold
Martha Rosler
Save the Boards Minneapolis
Dread Scott
Censorship of work on Instagram
A Blade of Grass: An arts nonprofit dedicated to social engagement
Reenacting a Slave Rebellion, by Dread Scott
Article about the above artwork, Vanity Fair
Bex Wade
Gallery One: Entartete Kunst ("Degenerate Art")
Resources: Entartete Kunst
Video Links: Entartete Kunst
The Artists
Descent from the Cross: MoMA, New York
André Derain
Otto Dix
German Conscience:The Great Otto Dix
Henri Matisse
Essays from the MET, New York
Red Room (Harmony in Red) From the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersberg
George Grosz
‘You nourish yourself with everything you hate’ by MARIO VARGAS LLOSA
10 Things you Should Know About George Grosz
PAST SHOWS
Past Exhibition: Reclaiming the Body
Sandro Botticelli
Huguette Caland
http://www.huguettecaland.com/
Profiles:
Documentary: Huguette Caland
Full List of Recent Press Here
Selected Recent Press
Adelaide Damoah
Luciano Garbati
Artemesia Gentileschi
Trulee Hall
Frida Kahlo
Leda and the Swan
Ana Mendieta
Michael Petry
Past Discoveries: Helen Blejerman
Helen Blejerman
Past Exhibition: Dani Marti
Dani Marti
Past Exhibition: As We Meet
Hieronymus Bosch
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hieronymus_Bosch
Biography:
https://www.biography.com/artist/hieronymus-bosch
An Article from Artnews about the Artist’s Life and Work
Interview with David Bickerstaff, director of The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch.
Buy reproductions of Bosch works:
https://www.hieronymus-bosch.org/
George Hendrik Breitner
Image resources from:
Artist Biography and Further Images:
https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/rijksstudio/artists/george-hendrik-breitner
An Essay by Hans Roosenboom
http://breitnerenglish.rkdmonographs.nl/a-painter-out-taking-photographs/@@print-monograph
Michelangelo Merisi Da Caravaggio
https://www.caravaggio-foundation.org/biography.html
Life and Work
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/crvg/hd_crvg.htm
Article about The 1986 Movie “Caravaggio”, directed by Derek Jarman
https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/revisiting-derek-jarman-caravaggio
Lygia Clark
Information and images from the 2014 MoMA exhibition, Lygia Clark: The
Abandonment of Art, 1948–1988
https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1422
An Essay on Clark’s Geometric Work
MoMA’s exhibition of 2017:
Gilbert and George
https://hyperallergic.com/139065/gilbert-georges-sculptural-life-on-film/
Essay: “A Door of Hell”: Thresholds, Crisis, and Morality in the Art of Gilbert and George in the 1970s: Article by Gregory Salter
https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-9/gilbert-george
Essay: The Lives of the Artists: 50 years of Gilbert & George
https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/50-years-of-gilbert-and-george
Amartey Golding
https://www.amarteygolding.com/6
http://www.jackhousegallery.co.uk/chainmail
Premier of the piece at London Art Fair, 2017
Background on Amartey and Solomon Golding
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2016/may/28/kidane-cousland-solomon-golding-amartey-golding-brothers-success-tottenham
Nelly Guambe
Further information and Biography
https://www.edcrossfineart.com/artists/30-nelly-guambe/overview/
Further reading
Martin Gustavsson
Édouard Manet
Paula Rego
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/12/paula-rego-obedience-defiance-milton-keynes-gallery
https://artuk.org/discover/stories/paula-rego-an-artist-of-unflinching-emotional-honesty
Georges Seurat
Alfred Stieglitz
Profile: The Metropolitan Museum, New York
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stgp/hd_stgp.htm