As far as I'm aware Cy Twombly never painted outdoor murals, but seeing the exhibition of his last paintings that just opened at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, I thought about bursts of unyielding energy, so characteristic
of this octogenarian artist in the last years of his life.
The latest works
of this octogenarian artist are scintillating miracles of eye - teasing optical magic.
Not exact matches
Winner
of the Cannes Film Festival Golden Eye Award for documentary and the Toronto International Film Festival Documentary People's Choice Award, Faces Places creates an unexpected pairing
of the
octogenarian French New Wave filmmaker Agnès Varda (The Gleaners & I) and the much younger street
artist JR..
While the selection and places and topics provides an alternative, grassroots narrative, this documentary is also about the friendship that develops between the
artists, as well as the insecurities and strengths
of each, with the
octogenarian Varda contributing more insights into class and gender for their creative joint partnership.
And two
octogenarian filmmakers, both
of them winners
of honorary Oscars, made the shortlist: 87 - year - old Frederick Wiseman, who directed Ex Libris: The New York Public Library, and 89 - year - old Agnès Varda, who shared directing duties on Faces Places with 34 - year - old
artist JR..
The musically inclined and monologue - inclusive show — which opened last night and continues through December 23 — follows in a lineage tracing back to Bond's holiday - themed shows as part the outlandish cabaret duo Kiki & Herb, for which the
artist channeled the persona
of a booze - swilling, pill - popping
octogenarian with a grizzled voice and a tendency to overshare.
But it is also the name
of an intricately sewn quilt created in 1986 by the
octogenarian artist Faith Ringgold.
Wally Reinhardt: Pages from Ovid's Metamorphoses is the first solo museum exhibition
of this New York - based
octogenarian artist.
Even if
artist Joanne Greenbaum and James Fuentes's associate director, Adrianne Rubenstein, had included work by only one
artist in their group show about the uses and peculiar attributes
of ceramics, it would have been a hit — so long as that
artist was Alice Mackler, an
octogenarian ceramicist represented here by nine wild little ceramic figurines, all from 2012.
The Courtauld Gallery presents «Jasper Johns: Regrets»; a display
of new work by the internationally renowned
octogenarian American
artist.
Richter is one
of the most critically and commercially successful
artists; the
octogenarian has been shown by Marian Goodman for some 30 years; but with the opening
of Marian Goodman, London — this is -LSB-...]
It may be the ultimate irony that in a story about Jasper Johns's Regrets series making their debut straight from the studio to MoMA, the
octogenarian artist is unwilling to open up about any
of his past connections.
Marisa Merz's Untitled (2012) at Gladstone Gallery This new work by the
octogenarian artist exhibits the same spunk, grandeur, and heartfelt honesty that characterized her reception
of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at this year's Venice Biennale.
From young radical to arguably Australia's greatest living
artist, the NGV retrospective
of the
octogenarian's work spans the intimate, the nonconformist and the majestic
This new work by the
octogenarian artist exhibits the same spunk, grandeur, and heartfelt honesty that characterized her reception
of the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at this year's Venice Biennale.
While the show does not feature
octogenarians nor whales, the four
artists - Lorna Barrowclough, Joy Drury Cox, Hondartza Fraga, and David (Scout) McQueen - all work within themes
of the ocean and reference a delicate attention to their craft.
Over four days, the
octogenarian artist will perform solo in the space as his recurrent persona R Y Sirb (Curator
of the Museum
of Ordure) for a total
of 24 hours, a feat
of endurance during which he enters a trance - like state.
Beginning with the first winner
of the Turner Prize;
octogenarian artist Malcolm Morley.
Richard Saltoun Gallery is proud to present the first UK exhibition
of Tomaso BINGA (b. 1931, Selerno, Italy) and Greta SCHÖDL (b. 1929, Hollabrunn, Austria); two
octogenarian female
artists who were working in the fields
of visual poetry in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s.
Partly a rebuke to short memories, it will offer a «connected wandering», in nine professed chapters (including a «Pavilion
of Artists and Books» and a «Pavilion of Time and Infinity»), involving artists ranging from the missing - and - presumed - dead Bas Jan Ader to the Chinese conceptualist Tao Zhou; from the octogenarian Giorgio Griffa to the barely - thirty Rachel Rose; from the excellently named, transgenerational, relatively sub rosa Mondrian Fan Club — David Medalla and Adam Nankervis — to the ubiquitous Olafur El
Artists and Books» and a «Pavilion
of Time and Infinity»), involving
artists ranging from the missing - and - presumed - dead Bas Jan Ader to the Chinese conceptualist Tao Zhou; from the octogenarian Giorgio Griffa to the barely - thirty Rachel Rose; from the excellently named, transgenerational, relatively sub rosa Mondrian Fan Club — David Medalla and Adam Nankervis — to the ubiquitous Olafur El
artists ranging from the missing - and - presumed - dead Bas Jan Ader to the Chinese conceptualist Tao Zhou; from the
octogenarian Giorgio Griffa to the barely - thirty Rachel Rose; from the excellently named, transgenerational, relatively sub rosa Mondrian Fan Club — David Medalla and Adam Nankervis — to the ubiquitous Olafur Eliasson.
I have also started research for a possible major monograph on the
octogenarian Nigerian
artist Demas Nwoko, one
of the founding members
of the group
of artists collectively known as the Zaria Art Rebels with Jimoh Akolo, Yusuf Grillo, Uche Okeke, Bruce Onobrakpeya and Jimoh Akolo amongst others.
Takis: Selected Works: A rare West Coast exhibition
of the
octogenarian Greek
artist Panagiotis Vassailakis, a self - taught pioneer
of works interrogating the boundaries between art and technology.
The most represented
artist is the
octogenarian «godfather
of Pop art» Peter Blake, who has given eight prints.
To coincide with her forthcoming exhibition at Tate Liverpool — her first solo show in a British institution — Eleanor Clayton pays a visit to the studio
of celebrated
octogenarian Romanian
artist Geta Brătescu
Today as an
octogenarian artist, she remains one
of the world's leading Feminist
artists.
The complete series was launched in April 2010 with a show at Annely Juda Fine Art in London: new work, another book's worth
of it, from the
octogenarian artist.