Tag: Memoir

U.S. Edition of Dealer Johann König’s Memoir Is on Hold – ARTnews.com

The U.S. edition of German dealer Johann König’s memoir, which was to be released next week, is currently on hold, its publisher confirmed Friday. Titled Blind Gallerist and written with Daniel Schreiber, the book was originally released in German in 2019. It has also appeared in an English-language edition that was released in the U.K. that same year. A representative for Sternberg Press, the ...

Read more

Painter Winfred Rembert Posthumously Wins a Pulitzer for His Memoir – ARTnews.com

In a rarity, two artists won Pulitzer Prizes this year alongside a slew of acclaimed writers, journalists, and critics. The painter Winfred Rembert, who died in 2021, posthumously won in the biography category for his memoir Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South, which was co-authored with Erin I. Kelly. Meanwhile, Raven Chacon, a participant in the current ...

Read more

Bacon in Moscow by James Birch review – darkly funny account of art behind the iron curtain | Autobiography and memoir

In July 1986, James Birch, a young London gallerist with vague designs on global domination, set off for the Soviet Union. It was his first visit and he had no idea what to expect. Mikhail Gorbachev had then been general secretary of the Communist party for one year: perestroika and glasnost were in the air (or, at any rate, in the British newspapers). But ...

Read more

Arnold Lehman Revisits the ‘Sensation’ Controversy in a New Memoir – ARTnews.com

“WHAT’S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE?” the New York Daily News asked its readers on September 24, 1999. The image in question—Chris Ofili’s painting The Holy Virgin Mary (1996), which features a Black Madonna with almond-shaped eyes—may have been one of the few artworks ever to grace the cover of a tabloid. Surrounding the Madonna are butterfly-like forms which, upon closer inspection, reveal themselves to ...

Read more

An American Curator Wrote a Memoir About Building Tehran’s Legendary $3 Billion Art Collection. In Iran, It Hasn’t Been Greeted Warmly

The Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art (TMoCA) has for decades been a beacon for the Iranian people. During the 1979 Islamic Revolution, a human shield formed around the building to protect the art inside. In 2016, when plans to privatize the museum were made public, protests filled the street.  After two years of renovations, TMoCA—which houses the most valuable collection of Modern Western art ...

Read more

John Giorno’s Memoir Shares Intimate Details of New York Avant-Garde – ARTnews.com

If you’ve ever wondered what Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, or William S. Burroughs was like in bed, look no further than John Giorno’s Great Demon Kings. In this memoir, completed the week before Giorno died last October, the poet, artist, and one-time impresario of the downtown New York scene has spared no detail—or past lover. The gossip, like much of the vividly ...

Read more

Categories