Included in today’s edition: a couple of videos highlighting art from Seoul, book recommendations, and an archive article about ‘artivism’.
This 19th-Century Painting of England’s Tragic Teen Queen Has Found a New Audience. Here’s Why
From Artnet
The nearly 200-year-old French painting of the ill-fated English queen is finding a new audience on Tiktok.
She was known as the Nine Day’s Queen.
In 1553, at just 15 years old, Lady Jane Grey was reluctantly thrust onto the English throne following the death of Edward VI, her first cousin once removed. The erudite young Jane was the great-granddaughter of Henry VII, and fifth in line to the throne. But Jane was a protestant and the devout Edward VI hand-selected his cousin, under the counsel of her father-in-law, John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, to inherit the throne in an ill-fated ploy to block the ascension of his half-sister Mary I, a Catholic.
The subversion fell apart soon after her proclamation, as the public rallied behind Mary I’s rightful claim. Just nine days later, Jane was deposed and Mary I was named queen by the Privy Council of England. Mary I, popularly known as Bloody Mary, had Lady Jane and her husband, Lord Guilford Dudley, imprisoned at the Tower of London for high treason soon after. In February of 1554, Jane, at 16 years of age, was beheaded, along with her husband. Jane’s father, who had organized the unsuccessful Wyatt’s Rebellion, was executed a week later.
Richard Pettibone, Who Turned Appropriation Into an Art, Dies at 86
From Artnet
I wanted to be a great painter,” the artist said, "what better way to do that than to copy a great painting?”
Castelli Gallery has announced that pioneering appropriation artist Richard Pettibone, 86, passed away on August 19 after taking a fall. Nearly 60 years since his gallery debut, Pettibone remains best known for his works copying modern art superstars like Andy Warhol and Frank Stella. Pettibone’s unwitting final exhibition with Castelli Gallery in 2022 presented 15 new paintings, all interpreting flags by Jasper Johns through Pettibone’s signature reduced scale.
A New Edition of John Elderfield’s ‘Frankenthaler’ Shows an Artist with Real New York Chutzpah
From ARTnews
An updated edition of John Elderfield’s Frankenthaler, originally published in 1989 and which many consider to be the definitive monograph on the artist, will be released this month by Gagosian, in collaboration with Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.
The revised version covers the entirety of Helen Frankenthaler’s career with freshly added chapters that focus on her late-1950s to early-1960s works and her career from 1988 to 2002, both of which were missing from the original version. Featuring over 300 full-color reproductions, including previously unpublished works, as well as more than 100 documentary photographs and comparative illustrations. the monograph offers comprehensive visual and scholarly insight into Frankenthaler’s career.
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