Wes Lang’s (born 1972) works on paper are complicated arrangements of American iconography, expertly rendered in ink and paint in a dizzying mix of American history, biker culture, tattoo iconography, ornament, Native American art, pin-ups, newspaper headlines and Taoist texts. Wes Lang, PictureBox/Half Gallery, 2013 (All rights […]
Blushes #28, 2000 “Ever since I started printing in 1990, I’ve been collecting things that went wrong in the darkroom.” By Nathan Kernan, from “What They Are” originally published in Art On Paper, May-Jun 2001 Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans was born in 1968, in Remscheid, Germany, a small town not far from Dusseldorf. He moved to Hamburg after […]
Richard Prince takes Vice on a tour of his country home to show us his latest work focusing on the “continuation” of previously done pictures and paintings.
Artist Peter Doig speaks about his work, as seen in the exhibition Peter Doig No Foreign Lands at the Scottish National Gallery from 3rd August to 3rd November 2013.
Clark’s aging sentient body, naked or otherwise, is central to his project to reclaim and live teenage life. By Sudhir Mahadevan, excerpt from Where the Boys are: Cinemas of Masculinity and Youth (2005) Larry Clark has made three feature films that have been released commercially, Kids (1995), Another Day in Paradise (1998), and Bully (2001). […]
A look inside the Hollywood studio of artist Matthew Brandt. Brandt discusses his project “Lakes & Reservoirs”, which is included in “Rogue Wave 2013” at L.A. Louver.
Ren Hang doesn’t have a lot to say about himself. In the fine art environment, where emphasizing one’s own importance (or having representation to do so, while you maintain the air of expensive mystery) is the norm, this resistance to pretense could be considered a form of madness. But this hasn’t stopped the twenty-seven-year-old photographer, […]
“There was a long struggle to establish photography as an art form and that struggle was won. The war is over, photography is acknowledged as an art form. The price the photography world paid for this victory was excluding everything that is not made by artists – ‘That’s actually not photography, that’s not art, it’s […]
“‘Glory’, the title of D’Alessandro’s 1973 book of photographs, is as understated and as charged as his pictures, each of which includes an American flag. Still timely more than three decades later, twenty-five of those pointedly black and white images remind us that, where the stars and stripes are concerned, ambivalence, irreverence and […]
Orchard Beach: The Bronx Riviera By Peter Baker, for ASX, November 2013 In Robert Caro’s Pulitzer Prize winning classic The Power Broker: Robert Moses and The Fall of New York (Vintage Books 1974) he describes Orchard Beach, a 1.1 mile stretch of sand that Moses himself had imported to the Bronx from Sandy Hook […]
One of the most revered living Japanese photographers, Daido Moriyama’s work is saturated with the melancholic beauty of life at its most ordinary. His photographs epitomize wabi-sabi, the Japanese aesthetic of finding beauty in imperfection. Moriyama focuses in on the lost and the discarded, and finds echoes of living through the breakdown of traditional […]
Photographer Wolfgang Tillmans interviewed back in 1996 about his image ‘Macau Bridge’ for Habitat. ASX CHANNEL: WOLFGANG TILLMANS