Monday, May 16, 2022

Le Violin d'Ingres (1924)


With a leaked U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion on Roe v. Wade making headlines, someone paid $12.4M for an original photographic print of Man Ray's imposition of f-holes over a woman's body, as if she were no longer herself but an instrument to be bowed.

In other news, a Kentucky artist-run centre succeeded in its attempt to re-introduce the concept of Kunstfreiheit at a Jackson County community college after the school had banned its teaching in its introductory level visual art classes. From now on, the autonomy of art will taught alongside social justice, institutional critique and decoupage.   

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