Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
By Madhusree Chatterjee New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Can a photograph simultaneously convey a sense of distance and proximity? If it’s been taken by a student of prominent German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, it most certainly can - as is evident at an exhibition underway here. For Indians, who are viewing the works of the Becher [...]
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/06/2008
May 29 Fly into Düsseldorf to control the printing of an exhibition I'm having at Phillips de Pury Gallery in London this summer. Grieger is the only lab in Europe that specialises in large-format printing. You walk in and you see the work of Andreas Gursky and all the other German artists that I adore. I had to stand on top of a ladder to see them because they are so big; it's impossible to hold them...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Leader: Landscape photographer looks for where man has disrupted nature
Your Daily Art (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Andreas Gursky , 99 Cent , 1999, Matthew Marks Gallery The photograph has been manipulated to enhance the consumer experience, removing shadows, adding a mirror to the ceiling, repeating the images, and removing the shoppers.
Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
I know little about contemporary German photography apart from the work of Andreas Gursky and the landscape work of Michael Reisch. My impression is that photography in Germany is booming. What I do know that in the 1920s and early ‘30s German photography was dominated by two distinct approaches to...
{ Never Neutral } (Free subscription) | 05/03/2008
Andreas Gursky, 99cent (1990) — Today Gravity and Grace are in the supermarket. They carry hand baskets made of steel. “What price bananas'” asks Grace. “Are you my angel'” Gravity sighs. The packaged plastic colours glare, making everyone feel lonely. — Michael Faber on Mark Evanier’s Jack Kirby.
PSFK Trend: PSFK (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
This past February, Sotheby's auctioned off a ton of original work by contemporary superstar-artists like Andreas Gursky, Takashi Murakami and Jeff Koons, with proceeds benefiting The Global Fund AIDS relief program. Damien Hirst has since released a limited number of t-shirts featuring prints of the original work done by these artists for, well, a lot [...]
Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
It's the inhumanity isn't it that suggests the sublime. We interpret the people as tiny and akin to making their presence felt in the world, like a minute, leisurely colony of ants. is this not a landmark of a global economy with this work constituting a map of the postmodern...
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
JOHN Kaldor never intended to build a contemporary art collection when he first became hooked by Pop Art in the early 1960s.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
JOHN Kaldor never intended to build a contemporary art collection when he first became hooked by Pop Art in the early 1960s.
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 03/24/2008
German photography has had an enormous impact in America in the past two decades, but the success of Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, and Thomas Ruff has eluded Michael Schmidt, who is having his first solo show in a New York gallery, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, at the age of sixty-two . . .
Conscientious (Free subscription) | 02/29/2008
Andreas Gursky is one of the most important living photographers, despite the fact that his work is often being judged on nothing but else but its size or its price. While his photos are indeed monumental, size is merely a means to an end - as is obvious to a viewer who is confronted by one of Gursky's photographs. The prints are not big simply because he can print them big, but because they have...
Good Weather for Airstrikes (Free subscription) | 02/28/2008
Hey, so I think we can all agree the whole ShareBee thing got real old real quick, so I bit the bullet and bought a new hosting package and so we’re back to direct links again. Everybody wins and shit. Now listen to Rya: Valentine’s Day is a touchy subject for me. I’m single, you see, [...]
Lussorian (Free subscription) | 02/28/2008
Pieces by the iconic artists Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol have been auctioned for a staggering total figure of £95m ($190m) according to Sotheby's. The auction house, claim to have set a new record for contemporary pieces sold in Europe. The pieces sold included: Francis Bacon's 1969 Study of Nude With Figure In A Mirror - sold for £20m ($40m). Three Andy Warhol self portraits, dating from 1986, were...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 02/22/2008
The northwest corner of old Bologna has been refashioned into a new arts and cultural district known as Manifattura delle Arti, or Factory of the Arts.
