Carrie Yamaoka

Beauty never did become the big issue that the critic Dave Hickey, a decade ago, so eloquently predicted it would. Yet the pursuit of beauty remains an urgent motivation for many artists — Carrie Yamaoka, for one. The beauty in Ms. Yamaoka's medium-to-small-size paintings is of a purely sensual sort that calls to mind California Fetish Finish, but without the look of machine-made perfection. . . . In time-honored Modernist style (think Robert Ryman), Ms. Yamaoka also toys with the physical support, calling attention to the painting as a hand-made object. . . .

Edith Devaney

Avery’s juxtaposing of colour planes creates a cohesion in his compositions, affording them a sense of resolution, serenity and beauty. Edith Devaney, “Milton Avery—Color into Form,” in Milton Avery, Victoria Miro gallery, 2017

Javier Sánchez

Javier Sánchez, Founding Partner & Director with JSa, is here for a special Tuesday Evenings presentation in conjunction with this year’s Fort Worth AIA Design Awards. In 1996, he founded JSa, a key architectural practice in the contemporary renewal of Mexico City, whose work focuses on projects of “urban acupuncture” and the recovery of the national architectural heritage.

Lilia Kudelia

As this was Rauschenberg’s first use of video, he spent time working with the studio technicians to understand the colors that could be transmitted on television, eventually selecting forty colors that would be used as the solid colors of the dancers’ costumes. Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Chronology, Anne Livet, Brazos River: A Video Collaboration, unpublished exhibition catalogue, 1977, tape 2. Robert Rauschenberg Archives, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation.

Harmony Holiday

As Holiday navigates the depths of Black remembrance and loss, she sets her sights on the relationship between “the new” and “the archival.” She treats both entities as collectively improvising ensembles in which prose and poetry sit by turns comfortable and chaotic, next to images cribbed from Black artistic and private life. Text on Harmony Holiday’s film God’s Suicide, commissioned for the Hammer’s 2021 biennial Made in L.A. 2020: a version, The Hammer at UCLA and the Huntington

Joyeux Noel

Joyeux Noel tells the true-life story of the spontaneous Christmas Eve truce declared by Scottish, French, and German troops in the trenches of World War I. Enemies leave their weapons behind for one night as they band together in brotherhood and forget about the brutalities of war. Diane Krüger, Daniel Brühl, and Benno Fürmann head a first-rate international cast in a truly powerful, must-see film.
PG-13; 116 minutes

 

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