Three Artists in the News: Remembering Pope L. (1955-2023), Jenny Holzer Looks Back, John Chamberlain Is Big in Aspen
2 min read · 28 Dec 2023
Pope.L, The Great White Way: 22 Miles, 9 Years, 1 Street, 2002. Copyright the artist. Courtesy of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
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Pope L. challenged ideas about race by crawling through the streets of New York dressed as Superman and shredded a 45-foot long American flag with industrial wind machines in LA, writes ARTnews in its obituary of the artist who has died, aged 68.
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Jenny Holzer recalls starting out as an artist in a male-dominated art world and the day she met** Lady Pink** through a mutual friend in 1980s New York. (Artnet News)
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John Chamberlain's crushed metal sculptures complement the mountains surrounding the Aspen Art Museum in a show curated by Swiss artist Urs Fischer, reports Aspen Public Radio.
And in AI-art news
Critic Jason Farago is relaxed about AI art because computers without a human soul are nothing more than “supercharged engines of cliché", he writes in a New York Times op-ed.