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Five good pieces on five great artists for a Friday

The great  Cindy Sherman has a show at Hauser & Wirth on Wooster Street in SoHo NYC. The Times took the time recently to do a long profile on her. I really enjoyed it. It also has a straight up photo of the artist and it was surprising for me to see.

David Shrigley has a very Shrigleyesque work in Australia that involves tennis balls. Click the link to see more to see what I mean by Shrigleyesque.

The Guardian has a review of a Robert Mapplethorpe photography show and they are not keen on it. I was not keen on the review.  If you want to just skip that and check out the (NSFW) show, go here.

The National Gallery of Art in the US was granted a treasure trove of work by the artist Joseph Cornell. You can read more about that, here. (One of his boxes is pictured above.)

Finally the great artist Giovanni Anselmo, of the ‘arte povera’ movement, has died. You can read more about him and the movement, here.

Cindy Sherman is on Instagram and is doing something new

And the New York Times has a good analysis of here work so far. I really enjoyed the analysis. As for me, I found it interesting that she has transitioned the account from a basic one that recorded events the way most of us do into something that extends her art in a way few of us can do. I also like that great artists like Sherman can take new media and incorporate it into their work but also extend it. David Hockney did something similar with the Brushes app. Here's hoping more artists do such things.