Van Eyck to Mondrian: 300 Years of Collecting in Dresden

By Robert C. Morgan

FEB 2022 | ArtSeen

The recent exhibition, Van Eyck to Mondrian: 300 Years of Collecting in Dresden, follows in the spirit of this change, although it is drawn from the brilliant depositories of the Kupferstich-Kabinett in Dresden. These collections are largely focused on drawings produced during the Northern Renaissance and Baroque period, although they also include more recent works.

Destination Out: Cinematic Illumination, More Than Cinema and Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia

By Steve Macfarlane

DEC 20-JAN 21 | Film

Cinematic Illumination, More Than Cinema and Japanese Expanded Cinema and Intermedia: Critical Texts of the 1960s enrich our understanding of the political and intellectual contexts for the disparate strands of the Japanese film avant-garde.

Bahia Shehab and Haytham Nawar’s A History of Arab Graphic Design

By N.A. Mansour

APRIL 2021 | Art Books

Easily the best introduction to the history of modern Arab visual culture on the market today, this new book lacks the jargon of exhibition catalogues, leans heavily on visual sources, and dismisses some previously held assumptions about Arab art.

Celebrating 25 Years of Project 59: Irina Danilova

By Peter Malone

MAR 2020 | ArtSeen

Celebrating 25 Years of Project 59, is a retrospective of Irina Danilova’s longitudinal commitment to a multidisciplinary art that employs a stranger’s instinct for the unnoticed. Applying methodologies cobbled from science and art, but independent of either’s restricting imperatives, Danilova delves into the ordinary and the incidental to create a parallel narrative of her unusually busy life.