Jon Rafman – “Neon Parallel 1996”
In The Wake of Richard Prince and Instagram, Revisiting Copyright Law, Appropriation and History
Since Richard Prince first exhibited infringing appropriated photographs, reproduction technologies have thrown established conventions into disarray.
Flat, Dead, Boring Light – An Interview with John Myers (2015)
“The New Topographics has to some extent had the effect of ‘steamrollering’ people into believing that the American model was the progenitor of lots of current photographic approaches.”
Barbara Kruger – “Whose Values?” (2015)
Artist Barbara Kruger, the 2014/15 Getty Artists Program invitee, is internationally renowned for her large-scale and immersive image, text, and video installations that address provocative social, cultural, and political issues.
Small Things in Silence, Bound in Blue: Yamamoto Masao
Yamamoto Masao had not only treated these prints with a range of teas, and chemicals—this I already knew—but also with tears from his own eyes.
Raymond Pettibon – The Art of Black Flag (1980s)
Pettibon’s drawings say: sure, I’ll suck dick for cigarettes.
Leon Levinstein – Street Photography
Bold and bluntly framed, the images are enthused with a voyeuristic atmosphere and an emphasis on body shapes that at times seem to hint at the grotesque.
Byberry Insane Asylum – A House of Horrors in 1940’s Philadelphia
For nearly 200 years, Northeastern Philadelphia had treated its surrounding mentally ill citizens “to keep them off the streets” because they caused “terror among their neighbors.”