Category: Review
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Thorntorn Dial at Edel Assanti
Thornton Dial’s first UK solo exhibition of large-scale paintings and assemblages, ‘From Bessemer to the Cosmos’, is a reflection on the African-American experience across the twentieth century and beyond.
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Joseph Beuys at Thaddeus Ropac
Interested in the natural sciences from childhood and enrolled in the Hitler Youth (membership was compulsory at the time), Beuys developed a body of work in which visceral warmth and mechanical coldness collide. That tension is inseparable from a youth shaped by the Third Reich (1921–1945) and from the scars of his own wartime experience…
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Reviewed Work: Categorization of Contemporary Art Collectors in Japan (Extract)
Wasano and Onishi’s study represents the first large-scale empirical attempt to classify contemporary art collectors in Japan according to their motivations and psychographic traits. Using a mixed-methods approach, Wasano and Onishi build on an existing Western model of art purchase motivations that they adapt to the Japanese art market. Their analysis of 386 collectors identifies…
プロテオドラ Theodora Poulot 