Tag Archives: Lilly Wei

Reviews Summer 2014

‘Ragnar Kjartansson: Me, My Mother, My Father, and I’ at the New Museum

By Lilly Wei Posted 07/30/14

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Trends January 2014

Claytime! Ceramics Finds Its Place in the Art-World Mainstream

By Lilly Wei Posted 01/15/14

Versatile, sensuous, malleable, as basic as mud and as old as art itself, clay is increasingly emerging as a material of choice for a wide range of contemporary artists
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In Joan Semmel’s Crossed Legs, 2011, the sexuality is more restrained than in her earlier work.

Trends May 2012

The Body In Winter

By Lilly Wei Posted 05/31/12

Artists are taking on themes of aging, transformation, and decay Read More

Looking at Art December 2011

Turning Over a New Leaf

By Lilly Wei Posted 12/01/11

When the Ming succumbed to the Qing, many rebel scholar-artist-officials became landscape painters who forged new, singular styles Read More

Reviews September 2011

Geometry of Stardust

By Lilly Wei Posted 09/22/11

Dorothea Rockburne at the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York Read More

Xu Bing printing on whole tobacco leaves. Credit: COURTESY DUKE UNIVERSITY, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA

News September 2011

“The ‘Tobacco Project’ began with an interest in the aroma of tobacco,” Chinese artist Xu Bing says over a dim-sum breakfast in New York. Likening it to something between sociology and art, he is referring to the third iteration of … Read More