One of the World’s Greatest Art Collections Hides Behind This Fence

By Tamar SchwartzJune 3, 2016 Art

Click Here to Read: One of the World’s Greatest Art Collections Hides Behind This Fence: The superrich have stashed millions of works in tax-free storage. So what does that mean for the art? By Graham Bowley and Doreen Caravajal in The New York Times on May 28, 2016.

The Geneva Free Port, behind barbed wire, is crammed with storage vaults that contain some of the most exquisite artworks ever made, tucked away where they may not be seen for decades.

FRED MERZ FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Private collector shines rare spotlight on China’s Cultural Revolution, in pictures

By Tamar SchwartzMay 16, 2016 Art

Click Here to View: Private collector shines rare spotlight on China’s Cultural Revolution, in pictures on the Telegraph website on May 5, 2016.

A statue and porcelain figures of late Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong are displayed. CREDIT: REUTERS/KIM KYUNG-HOO

Serial Photos of Palmyra Show Extent of Damage Done by ISIS

By Tamar SchwartzMay 5, 2016 Art

Click Here to Read: Aerial Photos of Palmyra Show Extent of Damage Done by ISIS by Claire Voon on the HyperAllergic website on May 4, 2016.

The main entrance of the Temple of Bel (all photos courtesy Iconem/DGAM)

A Psychological Portrait of Eva Hesse

By Tamar SchwartzMay 5, 2016 Art, Movies

Click Here to Read: A Psychological Portrait of Eva Hesse by Benjamin Sutton on the HyperAllergic on May 4, 2016.

Eva Hesse at the opening reception for ‘Eccentric Abstraction,’ 1966 (photo by Norman Goldman, all images courtesy Zeitgeist Films)

How Serge Poliakoff Predicted 60 Years of Painting

By Tamar SchwartzApril 28, 2016 Art

Click Here to Read: How Serge Poliakoff Predicted 60 Years of Painting by Rob Colvin on the HyperAllergic Website on April 27, 2016.

Installation view with Serge Poliakoff, “Composition Abstraite” (1957, left), oil on panel, 51 1/4 x 38 1/4 in, and Serge Poliakoff, “Bandes Colorées” (1937, right), gouache on paper, 15 x 7 3/4 in (photo by Brian Buckley, courtesy Cheim & Read)

Ancient Phallus Carving Gets Public Exposure After Two Decades as Garden Ornament

By Tamar SchwartzApril 9, 2016 Art

Click Here to Read: Ancient Phallus Carving Gets Public Exposure After Two Decades as Garden Ornament by Claire Voon on the HyperAllergiv website on January 7, 2016.

The Braceby carving with a digitally rendered outline (all images courtesy of The Collection: Art and Archaeology in Lincolnshire)

The Shadow of Zaha Hadid

By Tamar SchwartzApril 9, 2016 Art

Click Here to Read: The Shadow of Zaha Hadid by Esther Sperber in The Lilith Magazine on April 7, 2016.

Click Here to Read: Female Architects on the Significance of Zaha Hadid By Randy Kenney and Robin Pogrebin in The New York Times on April 1, 2016.

Female Architects on the Significance of Zaha Hadid

By Tamar SchwartzApril 4, 2016 Art

Click Here to Read: Female Architects on the Significance of Zaha Hadid By Randy Kenney and Robin Pogrebin in The New York Times on April 1, 2016.

Zaha Hadid said she could “see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance” that they could be successful in architecture. CreditBrigitte Lacombe/Zaha Hadid Architects

Freud’s Case Studies in Hysteria Get the Graphic Novel Treatment

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 27, 2016 Art, Books

Click Here to Read: Freud’s Case Studies in Hysteria Get the Graphic Novel Treatment by Carey Dunne on th HyperAllergic website on March 22, 2016.

Spread from ‘Hysteria’ (2015), text by Richard Appignanesi, drawings by Oscar Zarate (all images courtesy Self Made Hero)

Fall with Bruegel’s Rebel Angels in a Virtual Reality Experience

By Tamar SchwartzMarch 21, 2016 Art

Click Here to Read: Fall with Bruegel’s Rebel Angels in a Virtual Reality Experience by Claire Voon on the HyperAllergic website on March 18, 2016.

Virtual reality experience of Bruegel’s “The Fall of the Rebel Angels” (1562) (GIF by the author via YouTube)