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Noah Becker's whitehot magazine of contemporary art

June 2022

"The Best Art In The World"

"The Best Art In The World"
June 2022

Lucio Fontana + Italian Gothic Painting at Robilant+Voena by Donald Kuspit - New York

Fontana’s “slash” and “puncture” paintings—or as they have also been called his “stabbed” canvases--suggest that “pure” abstract painting is not so pure, not so spiritual, not so sublime, but informed by aggression.   read more...

I Will Sleep When I’m Dead, a VR animation by Jeanne Susplugas article by Luisa Caldwell - New York

I Will Sleep When I’m Dead is viewed on a Quest II headset and was made with the application Unity.   read more...

Domenico Romeo’s opera system between architecture and anthropology by Alice Zucca -

The individual works and exhibitions are stripped of absolute meaning to give greater vigor the the opera-system and its revelation through the the cathartic experience.   read more...

Chie Shimizu: Roji at NowHere by Robert Zeller - New York

Japanese artist Chie Shimizu's exhibition Roji at NowHere (Soho, New York) is a survey of nearly twenty years of the artist’s figurative sculpture, embellished with various motifs rooted in Zen spiritual practice.   read more...

Eva Petrič: Recycling Earthlings at Mizuma & Kips by Jonathan Goodman - New York

Petrič sees her smallest piece, Earthling Tattoo Seal, a cube 1 cubic centimeter in size, now navigating space in an international space station, as a totem indicative of our shared existence.   read more...

Karen Gunderson: Nature and the Nature of Royalty at Erin Cluley Gallery by Vittoria Benzine - New York

The show pits her paintings of water, nature, and celestial bodies alongside portraits of popular monarchs and presidents.   read more...

Jin Jeong: Grounded at Half Gallery by Alfred Rosenbluth - New York

Returning to the element of gravity, we find that its presence enables these paintings’ dynamic coherence.   read more...

Art & NFTs at Consensus 2022 by Alfred Steiner - New York

Although NFTs are a small part of the official Consensus program, many leaders of the art and NFT communities were there.   read more...

Linda Colletta’s Warped Tour by Heather Zises - New York

The woven grid zooms you into the painting to reveal hundreds of micro paintings and zooms you out through the large-scale nature of the work.   read more...

Sean Scully, Painter Poet by Donald Kuspit - New York

Sean Scully is undoubtedly a major master of abstraction, largely geometrical but not without gestural touches.   read more...

Sculpture, Animal Conservation and Climate Activism: An Interview with Sculptor Kristina Libby by Noah Becker - New York

There is a fair amount of research around how anthropomorphism actually helps with animal conservation.   read more...

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