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Tag Archives: ART
Arnold Newman: Masterclass at the Contemporary Jewish Museum
One of my favorite photography exhibits in San Francisco last year was the Contemporary Jewish Museum’s “Arnold Newman: Masterclass.” While some of the artist’s portraits have achieved iconic status (think of the composer Igor Stravinsky. The image you have in … Continue reading
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Tagged American Artists, Arnold Newman, ART, Contemporary Jewish Museum, museums, photography, San Francisco
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Tripping the Ballz Fantastic
In case you’re wondering what I’ve been up to, amongst other things, I went to Burning Man again, and wrote about it for Art Practical: There’s something disheartening about returning from Burning Man to resume your practice as an art … Continue reading
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Tagged ART, art reviews, Black Rock City, Bolero, Burning Man, dance, REVIEWS
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Public Intimacy: Art and Other Ordinary Acts in South Africa, Ponte City, for Art Practical
“It was a place where the wave crashed inwards upon itself, with the seething violence of delayed hope. It was Africa coming back, but with nowhere yet to go…. It was 54 floors of people in between other places.”—Denis Hirson, … Continue reading
Sarah Christianson’s “When the Landscape Is Quiet Again: North Dakota’s Oil Boom,” Art Practical
“We all wanted this oil development. We just didn’t know what we were in for. Even half of what we got would’ve been too much.”—Carole Freed, fourth-generation rancher, Watford City, ND, May 2013 No single photograph in Sarah Christianson’s When … Continue reading
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Tagged ART, art photography, art reviews, fracking, North Dakota, photography, San Francisco, Sarah Christianson, SF Camerawork
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Nan Still Stands: “Nan Goldin: Nine Self-Portraits” at Fraenkel Gallery
“Herr God, Herr Lucifer, Beware Beware. Out of the ash I rise with my red hair and I eat men like air.” Sylvia Plath, Lady Lazarus Though the collection is small — only 9 photographs — “Nan Goldin: Nine Self-Portraits” … Continue reading
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Tagged ART, art photography, Fraenkel Gallery, Nan Goldin, photography, REVIEWS, San Francisco, self-portraits
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Curation as a New Translation: Diane Arbus at Fraenkel Gallery, Huffington Post
I am not cruel, only truthful— The eye of a little god, four-cornered. Mirror, Sylvia Plath Diane Arbus famously brought a dispassionate but probing voyeurism to the marginalized and pariah of our society. Her treatments of the denizens of the mainstream … Continue reading
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Tagged ART, art photography, Diane Arbus, Fraenkel Gallery, photography, REVIEWS, San Francisco
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“The Outside World,” Richard Learoyd at Fraenkel Gallery, Art Practical
“For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue.” ―William Wordsworth, Tintern Abbey, 1798 … Continue reading
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Tagged ART, art reviews, Fraenkel Gallery, photography, Richard Learoyd, San Francisco
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“Silver Meadows” Revisited, Huffington Post
First off, I should say that I appear in this book as a model. Todd Hido‘s Excerpts from Silver Meadows (Nazraeli Press 2013) describes what might be a recognizable place, geographically speaking, to anyone familiar with midwestern suburbia. Hido has taken as … Continue reading
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Tagged American photographers, ART, art reviews, Excerpts from Silver Meadows, Nazraeli Press, photobooks, photography, REVIEWS, Todd Hido
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George Bellows at the Royal Academy of Art, Art Practical
The American painter George Bellows is widely remembered for his early masterpiece, Stag at Sharkey’s (1909), a painting that represents a particularly American moment in art (one cannot imagine a French movement calling itself the “Ashcan School” ). Its depiction of a casual, … Continue reading
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Tagged American Artists, ART, art reviews, Ashcan School, George Bellows, London, painting, Royal Academy of Art
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“We have not loved life.” Garry Winogrand at SFMOMA, Huffington Post
The first several hours I spent in SFMOMA’s Garry Winogrand retrospective, I thought writing about it would be easy: it seemed like each of the 300 images offered such imaginative fodder that the only problem would be to avoid long-windedness. … Continue reading
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Tagged ART, Garry Winogrand, photography, REVIEWS, San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, SFMOMA, street photography
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