So I woke up this morning thinking about this venue of artblogging, and I came upon the article in the NY Times about Shepard Fairey confessing to a copyright violation for using an AP image in his famous “Obama Hope” poster. Of course I, like everyone else in America is familiar with the poster and [...]
So I realize that this post is quite a bit late, given that it is now October, and John Currin Works on Paper, A Fifteen Year Survey of Women was up at the Andrea Rosen Gallery over the summer. But I thought that it would be good to write about it anyway.
So again, I must [...]
Monolithic. Topographic. Singular. The show is very impressive.
This is definitely a blue chip show, at a blue chip gallery, from a blue chip artist.
The reason that I bring this up is because, initially this show immediately overwhelms the senses, in its scale, and its poetry. It is representative of what Maya Lin is known for [...]
I definitely can be categorized as a fan of Kara Walker’s work. Okay, we know it’s derivative, that is, it’s been done. When I first saw the work years back, I knew it seemed familiar. I didn’t know where it was that I may have seen the graphic silhouettes before, depicting the struggles of African [...]
On my rounds a few weeks back of the galleries, I stopped into Printed Matter to check out if there was anything titillating for me to browse through. One of my favorite things to do, especially when I was a student, is to spend hours thumbing through books at the bookstore.
I haven’t been doing that [...]
