Tag: Picasso
In the most recent issue of The Baffler, Rhonda Lieberman published an extensive piece on the art collectors of the “new Gilded Age.” Almost everyone Lieberman mentions is both obscenely wealthy and exploitative. One of them is Bernie Madoff, whose office art included a four foot screw so expensive that Madoff’s lawyer didn’t want it disclosed […]
Spanish artist Eugenio Recuenco’s fashion portrait series as homage-to-Picasso is impressive. The fragmented composite frames and prop-styling work to emulate some of the 20th century master’s most famous cubist paintings in a tasteful, restrained, more-than-straightforward-imitative manner. They may not have the conceptual rigor of Addie Wagenknecht and Pablo Garcia’s Webcam Venus, the populist appeal of Hillary Smith’s […]
