The best way to see the exhibition Albert Oehlen: Home & Garden, at the New Museum, is (in my opinion) in reverse order. In other words, take in the nine painting on the fourth floor first, then get the “back story” from the [mostly] earlier works on three. The large paintings upstairs bristle with an energy whose effect is to make the surfaces seem to be escaping their … Read the full Story >>
With the Whitney Museum of American Art opening its new survey Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back on Monday, this week’s DART Artist Q&A features an interview Glenn O’Brien did with Warhol for Interview magazine [The Crystal Ball of Pop] in June, 1977. Warhol’s famously laconic speaking style often failed in its attempt to present him as a dumb blond; see for … Read the full Story >>
This just in from Aperture:Friday, April 15, 9pm - midnight Spring Party at Aperture Gallery. DJ sets by Stefan Ruiz and Al-Veez. Live performance by EXP, the reverse-engineered K-pop phenomenon by I’m Making a Boy Band (Bora Kim, Karin Kuroda and Samantha Y. Shao). 547 West 27th Street, NY, NY. Info This just in from David Zwirner:Saturday, April 16, 5-7:30 pm The gallery is hosting a special … Read the full Story >>
The artistry of Milton Glaser (1929-2020) is surely key to the mark he has left on our ways of looking at, and thinking about, the world we live in. In his seven decades behind a pencil, Milton looked and thought twice about more subjects than there is space here to mention. As co-founder of Push Pin Studios, with his Cooper Union classmates, Seymour Chwast … Read the full Story >>
Giant Robot, which has become something of a Japanese-pop-culture-art-reading-shopping-and-eating empire since the first issue of the magazine came out in 1994, celebrates its 50th issue this month. And an exhibition of art by regular contributors opens at the Japanese American National Museum (JANM), in Los Angeles' Little Tokyo, this weekend. The show features art by Adrian Tomine, Souther Salazar, Saelee Oh, Sashie Masakatsu, … Read the full Story >>
To celebrate what would have been Andy Warhol’s 90thbirthday, today's DART Q&A is extracted from the interview Glenn O’Brien did with Warhol for Interview magazine [The Crystal Ball of Pop] in June, 1977. Advance tickets to Andy Warhol—From A to B and Back Again, the Whitney's full-on retrospective that will open November 12 [November 7 for members], just went on sale. For now, … Read the full Story >>
How does a “resurgence of interest” get underway? Take Herb Lubalin, for example. During the 1970s and ‘80s, Lubalin, who previously was part of the “mad men” decades in advertising, formed a design consultancy through which he celebrated a vernacular approach to typography. You could say that his anti-Helvetic stance eliminated many design pitfalls that might have sidetracked him in what seems … Read the full Story >>
Who created movie glamour? You could say it was director Josef von Sternberg and his muse Marlene Dietrich, who fled Germany in the 1930s and brought the aesthetics of the Weimar Republic to Hollywood, noted the AnOther blog recently. By the 1960s, classic Hollywood glamour photography -- luminous faces spotlighted against deep shadows -- had gone out of style. But in the 1970s and … Read the full Story >>
Cindy Sherman’s work is currently on view in a major retrospective at the Walker Art Center, closing February 13th after having been seen at MoMA New York and MoMA San Francisco; it will open on March 17, 2013 at the Dallas Museum of Art. In addition, a show of early works from 1975-1977 continues at Centre de la photographie in Geneva through January 30. Her work is … Read the full Story >>
Roger Ballen is a photographer who sees before he looks. Having been behind the lens for nearly 50 years, first as a youth, then as a dedicated amateur while working as a geologist in the mineral extraction industry in South Africa, he has had decades to make the craft his own. A footloose New Yorker, he moved there permanently in 1982; he soon began to photograph the different … Read the full Story >>
What is it like to be 18 years old in Latin America? To look for answers to that question, Americas Quarterly magazine asked four reporters and four photographers to follow four young adults from different countries over a period of eight weeks. The photographers - Cale Merage, Ulises Ruiz Bazurto, Salvador Melendez, and Nicolas Villaume (a former Latin American Fotografia competition winner) - brought … Read the full Story >>
In an interview with Sally Gall, for BOMB magazine, Emmet Gowin spoke about his understanding of photography as an extension of the artist’s being. “You can’t be an artist and have your identity reside in only one thing. The thing that you master will become a stranger to you, and you will outlive it or you will need to live into something else. You will always need … Read the full Story >>
Don McCullin is one of the giants of photojournalism. The new book "Irreconcilable Truths" is an appropriately giant retrospective of his work. A limited edition, three-volume boxed set, the publication from the Provocateur Press weighs nearly 53 pounds, totals 1,500 pages, and features more than 700 photographs, including McCullin's iconic work as well as previously unpublished images reproduced from both vintage prints and new … Read the full Story >>
There's crime wave go on. Photographers have seemingly become a preferred target of robberies, sometimes involving violence. In January, a real estate photographer was robbed at gunpoint while driving in San Francisco. In June a TV crew in Oakland was filming an interview for a story on a spike in crime when the journalists themselves became crime victims. And last month a San Francisco-based … Read the full Story >>
Was the crime murder, or photography? The New York Post’s publication of photos of a man being pushed to his death from a subway platform on Tuesday has brought widespread criticism and launched a heated conversation that, as the NY Times notes, was summarized by the Today show’s Al Roker, who said simply, “Somebody’s taking that picture. Why aren’t they helping this guy up?” Freelance photog R. Umar Abbasi defended his actions in an interview with the newspaper, saying, “If I had reached him in time, I would have pulled him up." Adweek reported on the “near-universal outrage” the images prompted from “all corners of the Internet.” Poynter senior faculty member Kenny Irby says the outrage should be directed not at the photographer, but at the Post editors who chose to run the "most disturbing" pictures of the incident. Meanwhile, Women's Wear Daily notes that the Post editors aren't the first to publish unsettling images of violence—or the first to be condemned for doing so. Gawker polled a number of Pulizer Prize-winning photogs over whether they would have taken the pictures. “I am a human first, and a photographer second,” said Bethany Swain, a member of the National Press Photographers Association board of directors. “The journalistic value of these images was not worth this man's life. But there is more to the photographs than it would appear at first glance.” Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Which came first, the brush or the pen? CS: I guess it would be the brush. When I was a freshman, I had an instructor who had us keep a sketchbook for painting watercolors only – under no circumstances was drawing allowed! That class started my life-long interest in painting the world around me. PR: Where do you live and … Read the full Story >>
Robert Pattinson is worried about deepfake technology. In an interview with the Evening Standard's ES Magazine, the "Batman" actor talked about his unease over the digitally altered videos of his face that have been popping up across the internet. "It's terrifying," he said, adding, "You just realize that we're two years away from it being indistinguishable from reality -- and what on Earth am … Read the full Story >>
Peggy Roalf: Being asked to create 40 drawings for the New York magazine cover for the “Reasons We Have Loved New York” issue must be a New York artist’s dream assignment. All in one week. What were you doing when the call came in? Jeanne Verdoux: I had come to Bordeaux in September for a sabbatical semester from Parsons. The goal was to … Read the full Story >>
Legendary photo editor John G. Morris died on Friday at age 100. Morris passed away at a hospital near near home in Paris; his friend and colleague Robert Pledge, a founder of the Contact Press Images agency, confirmed the death. Morris, noted The New York Times, left an indelible stamp on photojournalism from World War II through the Vietnam War. He notably edited Robert … Read the full Story >>
Two years ago, on Jan. 5, 2021, OpenAI introduced DALL-E, a neural network that created images from text captions. Over the past year, such AI image generators-including DALL-E 2, Stable Diffusion and Midjourney-have "the biggest thing to happen to images since the invention of photography," noted PetaPixel recently. "It doesn't feel like so long ago that we were first trying this research direction to … Read the full Story >>
