Tracey Emin’s new paintings
My review of the anodyne show “Tracey Emin: Lovers Grave” at NYC White Cube.
Posts Tagged ‘Frida Kahlo’
Museums and willful ignorance
When Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for his novel Doctor Zhivago, the Soviet press exploded with outrage. The year was 1958, and although Stalin was dead, he had instilled a lingering fear, and despite the liberalizations of his successor, Khruschev, critical portrayals of life in the ussr were still commonly demonized as enemy propaganda. […]
