Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
ArtInfo, reporting from the tents of Frieze Art Fair in London, delivers the news that blue chip gallery Hauser & Wirth is offering up a curious piece of artwork by the irreverent Christoph Büchel . Yes, dear reader, those are socks. Black athletic socks worn by the artist himself, to be specific. Taking Duchamp's urinal down an even more lowbrow path, the Büchelis more likely an exercise...
The First Post (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
The controversial photograph of a naked Brooke Shields aged 10, turned into an artwork by the American Richard Prince, has been removed from the Tate Modern on…
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
LONDON.- Pop Life: Art in a Material World proposes a re-reading of one of the major legacies of Pop Art. The exhibition takes Andy Warhol's notorious provocation that ‘good business is the best art' as a starting point in reconsidering the legacy of Pop Art and the influence of the movement's chief protagonist. Pop Life: Art in a Material World looks ahead to the various ways that artists since...
Blue Positive (Free subscription) | 08/12/2009
or How I Started to Get Interested in Trying to Write Poems about Visual Art: (1) I won a one-year membership to Seattle Art Museum at my daughter's pre-school auction; (2) I spent a morning with Seattle visual artist David George talking about the two of us collaborating on book of poems about his pictures. (3) Barbara Crooker and Mary Jo Salter's fine ekphrasis poems, plus the ones I've been reading...
The MidWasteland RSS (Free subscription) | 07/14/2009
Fashion is fed by art, and art needs the fashionable to survive. Combine my two favorite loves and you get the current exhibit at the University of Minnesota’s Goldstein Museum of Design . Not familiar with Goldstein? It is the fantastic museum nestled in the St. Paul campus at the College of Design. “Intersections: Where Art Meets Fashion” features pieces by Andy Warhol and Richard...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 06/17/2009
Hendershot 547 West 27th Street, Suite 632, 212-239-3085 Chelsea June 25 - August 14, 2009 Opening: Thursday, June 25, 6 - 8PM Web Site Joanna Malinowska, String Quintet for 2 Cellos, 2 Violas and a Corpse , 2008 "Laughter is more serious than tears." -Toni Morrison Since the dawn of civilization, humor has been a universal tool for exposing, explaining and coping with the harsh truths of...
Tropolism (Free subscription) | 06/10/2009
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has been an embarrassment of riches this summer. Roxy Paine's rooftop installation is an artwork so right for its summer vista (in a way the Madison Square Park installation was not), and so right for right now, that it seemed as if I had left the repository of artifacts on the floors below and had entered a temporary installation on a gallery's rooftop in Chelsea. Except...
The New Yorker - Arts and Culture (Free subscription) | 04/06/2009
If the idea for MOMA’s “Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West” isn’t particularly original, its execution is. The show opens with Richard Prince’s Marlboro cowboy leaping into the circle of his lariat before a vista of flat, golden plains. Look right and you’re staring into the weathered . . .
Daily Dreamtime (Free subscription) | 02/21/2009
RICHARD PRINCE Gang (Fashion) , 1982-1984 Black and white photograph. 14 x 11 in. (35.6 x 27.9 cm). ESTIMATE $8,000-12,000 PROVENANCE Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York LITERATURE C. Squiers, and B. Wallis, “Is Richard Prince a Feminist,” Art in America, November 1993; R. Prince, Richard Prince Photographs, Ostfildern-Ruit, 2002, p. 180 (detail of larger format illustrated) http://www.phillipsdepury.com/auctions/lot-detail.aspx?sn=NY010109&lotnum=3&search=&p=&order=...
Mirror On America (Free subscription) | 02/19/2009
Hear an interview from last year with Richard Prince. He discusses the New Yorker Magazine controversy (the misguided "satirical" photo depicting the Obama's as terrorists). Prince talks about how the lack of editorial oversight and diversity contributes to this problem. And I think this could be tied in with the New York Post's Chimp Cartoon. Prince gives some interesting insight. You can...
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