The pigs in ochre

History of paint
Who made the first painting in the world
Loquats and mountain bird

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Eduardo Chillida

With a varied and pioneering practice that spans small-scale sculpture, plaster work, drawing, engraving and collage, Spanish artist Eduardo Chillida is best known for his prominent monumental public sculptures, mostly displayed in Spain, Germany, France and the USA. Throughout his career, Chillida drew on his Spanish heritage combined with a fascination for organic form, as well as influences from European and Eastern philosophies, poetry and history, to develop an artistic voice that communicated and resonated with a continent undergoing rapid transformation. Originally a student of architecture, Chillida created art guided by its principles. His formally rigorous constructions in oxidised iron are imbued with tension and poise. Chillida’s contribution towards Spain’s postwar artistic reputation and his personal legacy endure through his work and also through the Foundation which he set up in 2000. In the same year, Chillida opened Chillida Leku, an exhibition space and sculpture park converted from the historic Zabalaga farmhouse in the town of Hernani, near S

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Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation

D.A.P./NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART

Text by Harry Cooper.

ISBN 9781942884576

Judd

The first retrospective in 30 years on American maverick Donald Judd's minimalist sculpture, architecture and furniture Published to accompany the first US retrospective exhibition of Donald Judd's sculpture in more than 30 years, Judd explores the work of a landmark artist who, over the course of his career, developed a material and formal vocabulary that transformed the field of modern sculpture. Donald Judd was among a generation of artists in the 1960s who sought to entirely do away with illusion, narrative and metaphorical content. He turned to three dimensions as well as industrial working methods and materials in order to investigate "real space, " by his definition. Judd surveys the evolution of the artist's work, beginning with his paintings, reliefs and handmade objects from the early 1960s; through the years in which he built an iconic vocabulary of works in three dimensions, including hollow boxes, stacks and pr

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E.V. Day in front of her installation Golden Rays/In Vitro at Getty Museum

E.V. Day’s work considers feminism and sexuality, often within the context of popular culture and in the form of suspension-based installations, ranging from deconstructed couture to skeletal big cats. Based in New York, she has been artist-in-residence at Versailles Foundation Munn Artists program at Claude Monet’s Garden in Giverny France, Artpace San Antonio, and the American Academy in Rome. Her work has been shown at The Whitney Museum of American Art, Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Lever House, and Lincoln Center, among other institutions. Her most recent solo exhibition “Velocity Drawing and My Crazy Sunshine” featuring mixed media two-dimensional work was on view at Baldwin Gallery in Aspen, CO from July 26 – September 2, 2024, and her installation Golden Rays/In Vitro is currently on view at Getty Museum as part of “Lumen: The Art and Science of Light” through December 8, 2024.

Interview by Devon Dikeou

E.V. Day, Bombshell, 2000, white c