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Artdaily (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Representation of the figure, whether human or animal, has been a fertile source of investigation and debate throughout the history of visual culture. The exhibition Transfigure features 37 works by a variety of artists and is on view September 5November 2, 2008, at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Museum admission is free.
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Isn't blue the signature color of summer? Of blueberries, delphiniums, swimming pools, moods, sultry music? It seems as good a reason as any why Larry Becker Contemporary Art decided to organize its summer group show of paintings around that particular hue, in all its infinite variations. But there's more to it, apparently. The exhibition's title, "To Be L
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gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 04/23/2008
Cecil McDonald Jr: Domestic Observations at Catherine Edelman Gallery in Chicago, IL. "...On first viewing, Cecil McDonald Jr's images of his two daughters, his wife and himself appear to be snapshots – everyday moments caught on film. But nothing could be further from the truth, as McDonald seeks to reinvent mundane events that occur at home. Like Tina Barney and Carrie Mae Weems, McDonald's seeks...
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Chicken Spaghetti (Free subscription) | 04/11/2008
After coming across a couple of poems by Josephine Jacobsen in The Oxford Book of American Poetry, I've wanted to read more. Here is the beginning of "The Birthday Party," which is also online at the Poetry Foundation. "The Birthday...
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Reflections In The Bean (Free subscription) | 12/03/2007
Girls on the Verge offers a snapshot of contemporary explorations of female adolescence. The exhibition of more than 40 photographs and one video includes work by Rineke Dijkstra, Lauren Greenfield, Sally Mann, Hellen van Meene, Tina Barney, Melissa Pinney, Judith Joy Ross, Mark Steinmetz, Katherine Turczan, and Celine van Balen. Dec. 8, 2007 – Feb. 24, 2008 Gallery 1 | The Art Institute of Chicago...
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Art MoCo (Free subscription) | 11/14/2007
Matthew Clowney's most recent series of work, Families, consists of portraits of today's typical families: atypical. There is a social context, therefore. But the photographs also display an eerie boldness, as though the families are saying to the viewer,...
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Philadelphia Inquirer (Free subscription) | 09/21/2007
Seeing Tina Barney's lush color portraits of the affluent in magazines and monographs of her work is one thing; experiencing them in person is another. Gallery 339 has mounted a mini-survey of this photographer's oeuvre from the last 17 years that not only proves that her art has stood the test of time, but that her photographs are best experienced face-to-face to be fully appreciated. Barney's prints,...
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Style.com (Free subscription) | 09/16/2007
PETER JENSEN 2008 Ready-to-Wear Runway Show: COMPLETE COVERAGE NOW ON STYLE.COM See all the shows so far
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 02/20/2007
An exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum addresses the family as metaphor and social prism.
