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READING ROOM

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/

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ART AND PROTEST: 

Francisco Goya

 

Biography

 

Article: "All You Need to Know About Goya"

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The Complete Works

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Video: 

Disturbing Painting

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Profile

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Historical Analysis

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Eugène Delacroix

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Video: Liberty Leading the People

Faith Ringgold​

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Faith Ringgold

 

New York Times Article

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Video: 

Faith Ringgold's Art

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Faith Ringgold: Artist and Activist

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In Conversation at Tate

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Who I Am

FURTHER READING, PAST AND PRESENT EXHIBITIONS

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ART AND PROTEST

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Banksy

Not laughing now: Banksy loses second trademark case over famous monkey image

Banksy is Losing Copyright
 

John Collier: Lady Godiva

Godiva at the Herbert

Background on the Painting

History of Lady Godiva

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Fracnisco Goya

Article: "All You Need to Know About Goya"

The Complete Works

 

Faith Ringgold
Faith Ringgold

New York Times Article

 

Martha Rosler
Martha Rosler Website

Martha Rosler at Tate

Interview with Martha Rosler, 2018

Martha Rosler and Protest Art

The Art History Archive
 

Save the Boards Minneapolis

Save The Boards Website

Donate to Save The Boards 

Pain, power, healing: One woman’s quest to keep protest art in Minneapolis

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Dread Scott

Dread Scott Website

Censorship of work on Instagram

A Blade of Grass: An arts nonprofit dedicated to social engagement

Dread Scott TED talk

Article about the above artwork, Vanity Fair

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Bex Wade

www.bexwade.com

Interview and project with Queercircle

Instagram: www.instagram.com/bexwade/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/bexwade

 

Kacey Wong

http://www.kaceywong.com
https://www.youtube.com/embed/swwMl3Y0hic

Chinese Security Law in Hong Kong - What You Need to Know
 

RECLAIMING THE BODY

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Sandro Botticelli

Botticelli at the Uffizi

Botticelli in Pop Culture

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Huguette Caland

http://www.huguettecaland.com/

Biography

Profiles:
Documentary: Huguette Caland

 Full List of Recent Press Here

Raseef 22

Ocula

The Art Newspaper "Huguette Caland Dies"

Artforum Profile

 New York Times Article

Frieze Magazine

L'Orient Le Jour
 

Adelaide Damoah 
Artist Website

About Litany for Survival

Black British Female Artists Collective (BBFA)

Profile

Interview, 2020

Adelaide Damoah – Into the Mind of the Colonizer 

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Luciano Garbati 

The artist's website

Female Rage: Quartz Online

New York Times

The artist responds to controversy
 

Artemesia Gentileschi 

Discover Artemesia, at the National Gallery, London

Profile: More Savage than Caravaggio

Artemesia's Moment

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Trulee Hall

Artist's Website

Exhibition at Zabludovicz Collection, London

Artist Tour of Zabludovicz Exhibition

Two Heads, Two Ways: Background

 Studio International Interview

 

Frida Kahlo

Frida Kahlo Foundation

About The Broken Column

Kahlo's Injury and its Effect on her Life

Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, and Mexican Modernism

Frida Kahlo in Film - Movie List

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Leda and the Swan

The Cyprus Museum

The Myth of Leda and the Swan

Depictions of Leda and the Swan in Art

Leda and the Swan through history

 

Michael Petry

The artist's website

Artist talks

PDF: Background on Golden Rain

Palm Springs Exhibition

Analysis and Background

More analysis and background

 

Ilona Szalay

Artist's Website

Studio International Article

Unit London: Artists to look out for

Radical Love, Female Lust: Dazed Magazine

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Dani Marti

Artist's Website

At Artspace Sydney

 

ENTARTETE KUNST

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Explore the Inventory of Degenerate Art: V&A, London

Entartete Kunst inventory, vol. 1 as PDF

Entartete Kunst inventory, vol. 2 as PDF

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Max Beckmann

Descent from the Cross: MoMA, New York

Essay: Kemper Art Museum


André Derain

Biography and Works

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Otto Dix

German Conscience:The Great Otto Dix 

Critical Dix

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Henri Matisse
Essays from the MET, New York

Red Room (Harmony in Red) From the Hermitage Museum, St. Petersberg

Analysis: The Red Room

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George Grosz

‘You nourish yourself with everything you hate’ by MARIO VARGAS LLOSA

10 Things you Should Know About George Grosz

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Helen Blejerman

https://helenblejerman.com/

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AS WE MEET

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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

https://www.artnews.com/art-news/artists/hieronymus-bosch-life-early-works-best-paintings-1202685134/

Interview with David Bickerstaff, director of The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch. 

https://theculturetrip.com/europe/the-netherlands/articles/dissecting-hieronymus-bosch-500-years-after-his-death/

Buy reproductions of Bosch works: 

https://www.hieronymus-bosch.org/

 

George Hendrik Breitner

https://rkd.nl/en/

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

Artist Biography

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

https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/lygia-clark-painting-as-an-experimental-field-1948-1958-guggenheim-bilbao

MoMA's exhibition of 2017:

https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/3663

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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/

http://www.jackhousegallery.co.uk/chainmail

Premier of the piece at London Art Fair, 2017

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/blog/amartey-golding-and-his-royal-ballet-brother-deliver-london-art-fair-showstopper

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

http://www.nellyguambe.com/

Further information and Biography

https://www.edcrossfineart.com/artists/30-nelly-guambe/overview/

Further reading

https://artafricamagazine.org/emerging-painting-invitational-2019-announces-winners-for-the-inaugural-edition/

 

Martin Gustavsson

https://www.martingustavsson.com/

https://www.martingustavsson.com/essays/4

‘In No Particular Order”

https://www.artland.com/exhibitions/%22un-chant-ecarlate%22-%22in-no-particular-order%22 

El Mirage from Martin Gustavsson 

https://www.widewalls.ch/magazine/edouard-manet-olympia

https://www.manet.org/olympia.jsp

https://mymodernmet.com/edouard-manet-olympia/
 

Abe Odedina

http://www.abeodedina.com/

https://www.edcrossfineart.com/artists/28-abe-odedina/cover/

 

Paula Rego

https://www.marlboroughgallery.com/artists/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

Background and Biography
https://www.georgesseurat.org/
https://www.artic.edu/artworks/27992/a-sunday-on-la-grande-jatte-1884

 

Alfred Stieglitz

Profile, Victoria and Albert Museum

https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/alfred-stieglitz-pioneer-of-modern-photography?gclid=CjwKCAjwj975BRBUEiwA4whRB6ayHoGdCFRgh8DMZofUx37sA8F4rCV9yH-8RHK2HSfq-thNWpLiDRoClacQAvD_BwE

Profile: The Metropolitan Museum, New York

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/stgp/hd_stgp.htm

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

https://www.toulouse-lautrec-foundation.org/

 

Li Wei

http://www.liweiart.com/

Interview: 

https://china-underground.com/2018/04/19/interview-with-li-wei-the-creator-of-stunning-art-images-playing-with-gravity/

 

Luiz Zerbini

https://www.stephenfriedman.com/artists/57-luiz-zerbini/

Artwork info and Bio:

https://www.conceptualfinearts.com/cfa/2017/07/21/meeting-luiz-zerbini/

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