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☆ Mega rock engravings could be ancient borders, study suggests
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-04 | by ( Jacopo Prisco | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +7 min

CNN —Ancient rock engravings in what’s now South America — believed to be among the largest in the world — were meant to mark the boundaries of the territories inhabited by their makers, according to a new study. The rock art at Cerro Pintado, about 42 meters long, includes a giant snake, a human figure, a mask motif and a multilegged creature. Philip Riris et al. Monumental rock art of a snake tail in Colombia dwarfs the humans in this image. A close-up shows a detail of rock art on Picure Island, Venezuela.

Persons: South America —, Philip Riris et, ”, Philip Riris, —, Riris, they’re, ” Riris, weren’t, don’t, constricting, José Oliver, Natalia Lozada Mendieta —, Oliver, Lozada Mendieta, George Lau, Dr, Alexander Geurds, Geurds, doesn’t, ” Geurds, “ Organizations: CNN, Venezuela —, Cerro Pintado, Bournemouth University, University College London, Universidad de Los, Colombian, Venezuelan, University of East, University of Oxford Locations: what’s, South America, Venezuela, Colombia, Pintado, Cerro, Cerro Pintado, United Kingdom, Universidad de Los Andes, Americas, University of East Anglia, American

☆ When an Artist Dies, Who Owns Her Story?
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-02 | by ( Kate Dwyer | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: 1 min

It was an evening in late January, and Raquel Cecilia Mendieta was dining at the Parador, the 12th-century monastery-turned-hotel where she was staying while she installed artwork for a new survey of Ana Mendieta, the famous Cuban-born performance artist — and Ms. Mendieta’s maternal aunt — at a nearby museum. It had been a long day of assembling logs, soil, pine cones and branches into a reimagining of the artist’s “Untitled: Silueta Series” inside the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, and her dinner companions — her 15-year-old daughter, Anabella, and Grace Hong, the assistant director at Galerie Lelong, which represents the Ana Mendieta estate — were still jet-lagged after traveling from New York. But they jumped when, after plates of bacalao and glasses of white wine had been cleared, Ms. Mendieta checked her phone and exclaimed, “Oh my god!”

Persons: Raquel Cecilia Mendieta, Ana Mendieta, —, Castilla y, Anabella, Grace Hong, Mendieta, “ Organizations: Arte Contemporáneo, Castilla y León, Galerie Lelong Locations: Cuban, New York

☆ Artist Carl Andre, known for minimalist sculptures and a murder trial, dies at 88
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-25 | by ( Wallace Ludel | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

American artist and sculptor Carl Andre pictured at London's Whitechapel Gallery in London on March 15, 1978. Andre’s work often consisted of industrially fabricated forms made from simple, raw material — such as metal, granite, wood, and brick — arranged in free-standing patterns. His death passing was confirmed on Wednesday by the Paula Cooper Gallery, with which the artist had worked since 1964. “My father always said, ‘I am old school and European, and my wife does not work,’” Andre told the magazine. Ken Hively/Los Angeles Times/Getty ImagesIn 1970, after just over a decade in New York, Andre received his first major museum survey, at the Guggenheim Museum.

Persons: Carl Andre, — Carl Andre, Paula Cooper, Ana Mendieta, Andre, ” Andre, George Andre —, “, Margaret Johnson, ‘, ’ ” Andre, ”, Frank Stella, Stella —, “ They’re, They’re, Ken Hively, Peter Schjeldahl, “ Andre, Mendieta, Helen Molesworth, Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art —, “ Carl Andre, Melissa Kretschmer Organizations: The Art, CNN, Phillips Academy, Kenyon College, Army, Northeastern University —, Tate, Los Angeles Times, Guggenheim Museum, The New York Times, Dia Beacon, Angeles’s Museum of Contemporary Art, Artforum Locations: London, American, New York City, Quincy , Massachusetts, United States, Sweden, “ The, Andover , Massachusetts, Beverly Hills, New York, Greenwich Village

☆ Carl Andre, Austerely Minimalist Sculptor, Is Dead at 88
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-24 | by ( Randy Kennedy | More About Randy Kennedy | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Carl Andre, one of the most influential and ascetic pioneers of Minimalist sculpture, whose career was overshadowed by the accusation that he played a role in the death of his wife, the Cuban American artist Ana Mendieta, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. His death, in a hospice facility, was confirmed by Steven Henry, a senior partner with the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, which represented Mr. Andre. Mr. Andre helped establish the terms of Minimalism, which shifted the focus of art in the 1960s away from the heroic gestures of Abstract Expressionism toward rudimentary forms and industrial materials. He was a practitioner of the movement at perhaps its most austere, working primarily from a limited range of elemental metals along with granite, wood and brick. Typically employed in the standard forms in which any contractor could order them from a foundry or quarry, the materials were arranged directly on the ground, with a plainness and Pythagorean purity that brought to mind cairns or sacred tessellation.

Persons: Carl Andre, Ana Mendieta, Steven Henry, Paula Cooper, Andre, Mr Locations: Cuban American, Manhattan, New York

☆ Jo Ann Callis’ uncomfortable portrait of femininity has resonated for four decades
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-10 | by ( Jacqui Palumbo | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +6 min

Though she made the image four and a half decades ago, “Woman with Blue Bow” seems strikingly contemporary — a timeless symbol on the strictures of femininity. Though Callis and her body of work fits neatly within this cohort, it’s not a label that Callis adopted, then or now. Callis' early color work explored restriction and desire at the height of the feminist art movement. Jo Ann Callis/Courtesy ROSEGALLERYThe red imprint on the model’s neck, alluding to discomfort, was not actually caused by the bow, Callis explained, but was rather an illusion thanks to makeup. It’s just one of the many nuances in her color work that she would not have been able to pull off in black and white.

Persons: Jo Ann Callis, Del Cielo, ” Callis, Callis, ”, “, Cindy Sherman, Hannah Wilke, Ana Mendieta, it’s, It’s, William Eggleston’s, Eggleston, David Lynch, Paul Outerbridge, That’s, Alfred Hitchcock, Sofia Coppola, ” Coppola, “ You’re Organizations: CNN, Museum of Modern Locations: Rosegallery, Santa Monica , California, China

☆ A Vanishing Masterpiece in the Georgia Marshes
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-29 | by ( Siddhartha Mitter | More About Siddhartha Mitter | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

But she also made and began showing abstract paintings, encouraged by Norman Lewis and Romare Bearden. Her turn to sculpture began in New York. The artists Ana Mendieta, who helped organize the show, and Howardena Pindell, whom it also featured, were among her friends. By then, however, she had resettled in small-town Georgia — first Macon, then Athens — beginning a fade from view in the New York scene that was later compounded by ill health. But the South held her heart and concerns, and in Georgia her sculpture added scales, materials and methods, in tune with the land and its stories.

Persons: Buchanan, Norman Lewis, Romare Bearden, frustulas, Ana Mendieta, Howardena Pindell Organizations: Columbia University, Bronx and, —, Georgia Locations: New York City, Bronx, Bronx and New Jersey, New York, United States, A.I.R, Macon, Athens, Georgia

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