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Recent Visual Arts FeaturesThursday, October 29 2009
Wonder: The Photos of Stephanie ChernikowskiChernikowski's 35mm black-and-white stills (a sampling of which is included in the Museum of Modern Art’s Looking at Music: Side 2 exhibit this fall) exude more than just an appreciation for the magnetic personalities they capture, but also a sense of discovery. Wednesday, July 29 2009
It’s All Too BeautifulA suspicion of beauty is vital if one hopes to have any relation to it that isn't completely compromised; as Walter Benjamin said, beauty is the other side of the coin of injustice. Thursday, May 14 2009
Art and AppropriationUsing trash to make art is a political statement, though not necessarily the one the artists may intend. The implicit message, reduce and reuse, runs counter to the consumerist impulse to always buy more. Tuesday, April 7 2009
What We Write About When We Write About ArtOn Edge exhibits a composite image of a younger, rougher New York: we know it existed, but it still has the power to shock and charm, like a photo of a beloved aunt as a teenager with cropped and blue hair. Monday, March 9 2009
Punk Invades the Auction HouseThere were no shocking sales at the first-ever Christie's auction of punk and rock posters, but plenty of surprisingly good deals Wednesday, January 28 2009
‘Art’: A Diminished MagnificenceHas any other art, even literature or music, ever exceeded the visual arts in its ambition, its richness, and its sheer beauty? Wednesday, January 21 2009
Street Art’s Day in the SunIn many ways Sheppard Fairey’s (designer of the famous Obama "hope" poster) work is an ad campaign making fun of ad campaigns. It’s his consistency of message that has earned him respect. He is the McDonalds of guerilla art. Tuesday, January 20 2009
Linden Frederick and the Magic of RealismThere is a love in Linden Frederick's paintings – a love for, in the broadest sense, civilization and, in the narrowest sense, for the virtues of merely hanging in there. Thursday, December 11 2008
Hong Kong Graffiti: Not for Lack of InspirationSubversive commentary should be thriving in Hong Kong. All the ingredients to spark graffiti are there -- the divides in social class, the thriving materialistic culture, and political antagonism with Mainland China. Tuesday, November 25 2008
The ‘Murderous’ Art of George BaselitzFor Baselitz, the true artist is the eternal outsider. While he leads a good bourgeois family life, at his art he becomes a murderer, a man on the fringes of good society, a destroyer. Monday, November 10 2008
Hung Up: The State of Rock Poster ArtWith major labels fading and promotional budgets cut to the bone, can rock-concert poster art survive? Can it even thrive? Wednesday, October 15 2008
Bruce Nauman and The Art of ThinkingIn Bruce Nauman's art no complacency is allowed to reside. The complacent can only flee. Wednesday, October 8 2008
(Super)flat PopDespite sharing a preoccupation with pop culture and commercialism, Takashi Murakami is no Andy Warhol. Monday, September 15 2008
Jokerman Meets Mad ManBob Dylan helped change the way the 1960s sounded; advertising icon George Lois changed the way it looked. It's only fitting that their paths have crossed several times since Friday, June 13 2008
Flying Alone: Edward Hopper and America’s Night SideIsolation is more than being alone. That is why the greatest and most discomforting presentation of isolation can be found in Hopper's paintings that include more than one person. Wednesday, April 2 2008
Thaw: Russian Art from Glasnost to the PresentFears and rumors of increasing state control insinuate that the most recent Russian thaw, as represented at this exhibit at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York, might turn out to be just that: a limited period of freedom. Tuesday, March 11 2008
Identity Thief: “There’s Banksy”If people knew who he was, if they could point and whisper, “There’s Banksy” as he gingerly squeezed tomatoes at his local supermarket, would his art lose its power? Friday, October 12 2007
The Lost Generation and the Art of LivingSara and Gerald Murphy inspired an astonishing array of the century’s greatest writers and artists; they helped float, inspire, and otherwise sustain the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Picasso, Ferdinand Leger, Man Ray, Cole Porter, John Dos Passos and Dorothy Parker, to name but a few. Monday, August 27 2007
Wyndham Lewis: The Irascible EnemyWyndham Lewis brought a scintillating intellect to his artistic endeavors. If only we could let him loose on the majority culture of our time. Monday, July 2 2007
The Master of Light and ShadowRembrandt reaches into the dark spaces of his subject and exposes the subject's inner self, thereby confronting the viewer with the somewhat unsettling presence of another human being. |
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