If Bruce Silverstein’s group show avoids exercising the gallerist’s personality in favor of a team of international curators, Michael Mazzeo hides his curatorial influence behind the personalities and preferences of the photographers themselves. Every photographer in “How I Spent My Summer Vacation” is represented by 1-3 images (or, in one case, a sculpture) and […]
I like group photography shows for two reasons. As quick visual surveys, they provide leads to a wide variety of artists who may or may not be worth contemplating. They also give you a good sense of a gallery’s direction as a whole: what kinds of photographers, subjects, and stylistic considerations a gallery […]
Summer has been slow, and it’s about to get slower…I’ll be out of contact for about a week and a half beginning today. In the meantime, a couple of interesting photography-related discussions have been surfacing around the web. Ed Burtynsky’s proposal to establish a permanent gallery in the 10,000-Year Clock in Nevada asks […]
AFC pointed me toward this great story: The Art Newspaper reports that Sotheby’s and Damien Hirst are planning an exhibition and auction of new work by Hirst this September, bypassing the traditional gallery system and heading straight to the auction block. As if that weren’t crazy enough, the centerpiece of the show (entitled “Beautiful […]
A man stands in a church, straddling the elaborate miniature landscape of a tiny Nativity scene. He is leaning on a mop with its bottom so lost among figurines that the handle looks like a wooden staff and the man like a tired traveler–the fourth Magus, maybe, or even, when compared to the tiny […]
Fandom is complex. It may begin as admiration–for talent, for style, for success–but the twists and turns it takes as it grows or extinguishes, and especially as it is nurtured into an obsession, have been largely uncharted waters for visual artists. There are signs that that’s changing. Ryan McGinley explored Morrissey fans […]
For those who haven’t noticed, Cara Phillips and Amy Elkins have been up to more than their usual blog posts. They recently established a new website, Women in Photography, devoted to showcasing the work of contemporary female photographers. I mention it now because WIP pointed me to Julie Saul Gallery, where Sally Gall’s […]
If Carolina Nitsch Project Room isn’t the smallest storefront gallery in Chelsea, it must be in the top three. Maybe that’s what makes it so successful. Every time I go, it’s packed with an interesting show that is just big enough to contain something worthwhile but still small enough not to get on […]
Despite the unimpressed response from the blogosphere (see here and here), I think this year’s AIPAD marks a significant improvement over last year’s. AIPAD ‘07 sticks in my mind as a bunch of galleries trying to sell the same non-vintage Kertesz and Lartigue prints around every corner. While there’s still plenty of late […]
There are currently three different features on Gregory Crewdson in the media right now–not counting reviews of his new show at Luhring Augustine. There’s an art/human interest piece in New York magazine, an essay in Aperture redacted from a talk given by Crewdson about his influences, and an interview with Crewdson online at the […]
