Laura Gonzalez (Free subscription) | 08/29/2008
The Sartorialist is one of the regular blogs I read/look at. To me Scott Schuman’s work is a real celebration of garments, objects, people and how they construct their identities. His work is astonishing. The close ups, people’s faces, the way they fill in, or not, the clothes they are wearing, their nationality, their beliefs [...]
The Herald (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
A trio of pioneering image-makers are creatively curated in Dundee to reveal to Jack Mottram the origins of feminist video art
Jahsonic (Free subscription) | 04/15/2008
Photo by Francesca Woodman, see more at the Google gallery Just like the director Belvaux, this talented photographer took her life, only much younger, she was only 22, and left behind a mere 500 photographs. Sometimes it feels like one could build an entire art history class around artists who’ve committed suicide. American art critic David Levi [...]
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 02/28/2008
Anthony d'Offay was a different kind of art dealer from the ones we have today.
The Guardian Art blog (Free subscription) | 02/27/2008
D'Offay's heavyweight art collection will grab headlines but for 'the vampire' it's all about power
Achtung Baby! (Free subscription) | 01/22/2008
photo: Francesca Woodman | text: Andre Breton [ Hawksley Workman: Wonderful And Sad // No Reason To Cry Your Eyes Out ]
Dictionopolis in Digitopolis (Free subscription) | 12/28/2007
Francesca Woodman Self Portrait with Lily, Rome 1977-78
Dictionopolis in Digitopolis (Free subscription) | 11/19/2007
I most emphatically don't mean that I've been thinking about it for myself. Just that a number of things seem almost to have conspired in the past few days to get me thinking about the act. Finding that self-portrait of Francesca Woodman and the very nice picture of Marilyn Monroe. And then reading about that poor depressed girl Megan Meier, not to mention the biography of Kurt Cobain. And then this...
Dictionopolis in Digitopolis (Free subscription) | 11/15/2007
This is the second time that I've fallen in love with a photograph of a woman only to find out that it's associated with dying. Woodman committed suicide in 1981. Freaky, huh?
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
PURCHASE, NY.- In her epochal essay "Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?" (1974), feminist art historian Linda Nochlin explained that many historical circumstances, principally lack of access to training, exhibitions, commissions and critical forums not genetics limited women's artistic achievement. As these circumstances changed rapidly in the period after World
