Archive for the ‘Photography’ Category
Monday, March 8th, 2010
By JRS
In 1985, when billionaire Greek industrialist Dakis Joannou bought the first piece of his now world-renowned contemporary art collection—a basketball signed by Dr. Jay submerged in a tank of water and simply titled “Equilibrium”—it started two chain reactions. One, Mr. Koons would never have to worry about people buying his work again, as Jonnau has been very successful in buying up most of it for his monolithic museum in Athens. Secondly, Joannou would be very adept in helping to solidify emerging artists and future greats (Terrence Koh, Cindy Sherman, Takashi Murakami), as well as helping to shape the very nature of collecting. (more…)
Tags: Charles Ray, cindy sherman, Dakis Joannou, Dan Altmejd, Dan Colen, Dash Snow, Ed Paschke, Jeff Koons, Maurizio Cattelan, Paul McCarthy, Paula Jones, Rob Pruitt, Stanley Kubrick, Takashi Murakami, Terence Koh, Tony Shafrazi, Urs Fischer
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Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
By JRS
The "Hotel" Series by Erwin Olaf
Through March 20, 2010, Chelsea’s Hasted Hunt Kraeutler gallery will be displaying the latest exhibition by Dutch sensation Erwin Olaf. “Hotel, Dawn & Dusk” is a retrospective look at the photographer from 2004–2009, and focuses on his attention to his subjects at their most intimate. (more…)
Tags: Erwin Olaf, Hasted Hunt Kraeutler, Mad Men, Matthew Weiner
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
By JRS
DENIM – Curated by David Rimanelli
I once asked shuttle loomer and denim aficionado Matt Weintraub to explain, in as few words as possible, what was behind the complex mystique fueling the denim craze. He wrote me, “I prefer my denim raw, thick, and selvage. Raw means the denim has not been pre-distressed. It’s going to get beat up over time. Every crease, bend, and crinkle is going to reflect your personal story. Whiskers will build, honeycombs will form, and edges will wear. But this is exactly as it should be, as each fade and tear will remind you of where you’ve been.” (more…)
Tags: 80WSE, Andy Warhol, Carl Andre, Charlie White, Cruising, David Rimanelli, Export, Hanna Liden, Jack Pierson, James Dean, K8 Hardy, Karlheinz Weinberger, Kenneth Anger, Klara Liden, Knut Asdam, Kustom Kar Kommandos, Marilyn Monroe, Marlon Brando, Matt Weintraub, Michael Smith, NYU, Rebel without a Cause, Rob Pruitt, Robert Morris, Scorpio Rising, The Misfits, The Wild One, Tom Burr, Valie, William Friedkin
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Thursday, January 21st, 2010
By Kiša Lala
Antony Gormley, Amazonian Field, 1992, Terracotta, Courtesy of the artist and White Cube, London
One way to combat the unusual winter cold in London, while griping about climate change, is to curl up under a handmade rug and a hot water thermos in the portico of the Royal Academy of Arts at 6 Burlington Gardens, where Sketch has opened a pop-up café to coincide with the exhibition Earth: Art of a Changing World funded by GSK Contemporary. Above me – while I nibble oysters and sip champagne, seated on recycled cardboard chairs - is CO2morrow, an LED-lit, virus-like installation clinging to the façade of the building, showing the fluctuating levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. The display (by Lutyens and Marianantoni) is fed by data from external monitoring systems, and inspired by the idea of a zeolite, a scrubber molecule that “scrubs” CO2 from pollutants, which may be yet another engineered hope for our future.
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Tags: Ackroyd & Harvey, Antony Gormley, Joesph Beuys, Kisa Lala, Mariele Neudecker, Royal Academy of Arts, Sketch, Tomas Saraceno, UVA
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2010
By JRS
- Gagosian’s flawless curation of Ed Ruscha’s On the Road
Steidl has paired with its darling artist, Ed Ruscha, to once again produce a book that sets a new standard of “over-the-top.” A $10,000 book? What recession? (more…)
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
By JRS
Jack Walls holding court in the Fuse Gallery January 9th
A pleonastic two years in the making for Jack Walls has turned Second Avenue’s Fuse Gallery into a scene out of The Omen, with a loquacious lexicon of prose replacing the bible pages that canvas a barren rectory. The presentation of verse such as “…while a dress made of mother-of-pearls imitating the scales of a fish flutters/A handkerchief is a trembling veil/Violent blue milk spurts from your mouth and dribbles down your chin” lends more to the reader’s imagination than, say, Ecclesiastes, inching along the walls at a dawdling pace while attempting to take in the miniscule script leads itself to be a tedious experience indeed.
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Tags: Fuse Gallery, Jack Walls, The Ebony Prick of the White Rose's Thorn
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Monday, January 11th, 2010
By JRS
Milton Rogovin's Lower West Side series, Buffalo, NY
Buffalo-based optometrist Milton Rogovin turns 100 this year and to mark the occasion, Seattle’s Henry Gallery is putting on a career retrospective that showcases his diverse body of work. As the Henry’s curator, Misa Jeffereis, says: “Rogovin engages with a variety of people—factory workers, miners, citizens of Cuba and Zimbabwe, and Buffalo’s poor—through the filter of political action, a devotion to social justice, and an abiding sympathy for his fellow human beings.” (more…)
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Wednesday, January 6th, 2010
By JRS
A self portrait of the one and only Michelle du Bois
This Friday night marks the opening of Zoe Crosher’s latest chapter in the ongoing saga of Michelle du Bois, the American-born escort who worked her way across the Pacific Rim in the 70s and 80s. It still remains a mystery as to how exactly Crosher obtained these photographs—and she’s not telling, though it is speculated that du Bois herself bequeathed the massive archive to her fellow shutterbug. (more…)
Tags: Jeff Koons, Leslie Grant, Michelle du Bois, New Museum, Zoe Crosher
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
By JRS
January will play host to Miroslav Tichý’s debut American solo show at the International Center of Photography in New York. This auspicious yet reclusive octogenarian makes his way to such critical acclaim at the end of an arduous uphill battle.
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Tags: ICP, Miroslav Tichý
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Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
By JRS
SPREAD ArtCulture caught up with George Horner, an administrator at New York’s Tony Shafrazi Gallery, at Art Basel and talked about David LaChapelle and Dennis Hopper’s new exhibitions.
SPREAD ArtCulture: When did these new LaChapelle images come about?
George Horner: These images were shot in Hawaii recently because David has a lot of land there. It was actually once a nudist colony that he bought years ago. He flew in Michael Jackson impersonators and look-a-likes for this shoot. He was a huge Michael fan and was really affected by his death. The look-a-likes go through real pains in this series, in order to be as genuine as possible.
- “The Beatification: I’ll Never Let You Part For You’re Always in My Heart,” by David LaChapelle
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Tags: Andy Warhol, Art Basel, David LaChapelle, Dennis Hopper, George Horner, Jasper Johns, Lichtenstein, Michael Jackson, Rauschenberg, Rosenquist, Taschen, Tony Shafrazi
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