In the latest Independent Feature, London-based critic and art historian Rachel Denniston traces some of the histories of the remarkable women (and men) who wrought the rise of abstraction in America between the wars, including Hilla Rebay, Alice Trumbull Mason, Esphyr Slobodkina, Sue Fuller, and Emil Bisttram.
Throughout the 20th century, immigrants have contributed immensely to the development of art and culture in many countries around the world. In Brazil, artists from that nation’s Japanese diaspora spearheaded art movements and institutions, often in the face of considerable discrimination. In Independent’s latest Feature, Yudi Rafael writes about the Japanese Brazilian artists who transformed Brazilian art during the middle of the last century, centered on the long-running artists association Seibi-Kai.