This Disconnecting Solace: Julie Van Der Vaart’s “Dusk”
Julie Van Der Vaart’s “Dusk” is a shrouded piece of photographic investigation into nocturnal unreason where silver nitrate meets the dim slow hum of dull bulbs or flickering candles at best.
ASX.TV: Takashi Murakami, “The 500 Arhats” (2016)
A short preview of Takashi Murakami’s solo exhibition “The 500 Arhats,” open at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, Saturday October 31, 2015 -Sunday March 6, 2016. ©2015 Takashi Murakami/Kaikai Kiki Co., Ltd. All Rights Reserved.
Five Uneasy Pieces: An Interview with Juno Calypso
Reasons You’re Tired All the Time, 2013 “I feel like this question is saying ‘can you still be a feminist when your camera is aiming at your ass?” If so, my answer is yes.” BF: Within the theatricality of your images, you seem to be hinting at a considered perception of the feminine […]
Into the Subject’s World, Katja Stuke’s “Nationalfeiertag (National Holiday)”
These event headlines are embedded in this single image, now symbolic of defiance against the brute force of state power. It is both the beginning and the end – the beginning the event evokes and an end that stops at the image and caption. The news image of global importance is the both the beginning […]
Estelle Hanania and The Willful Art of European Disappearance
Estelle Hanania is what I would consider a sort of phenomenological anthropological photographer. When I say this, I mean to consider her an anthropologist with a camera interested in regarding a marginal culture shifts rather than a quotidian and beleaguered photographer attempting to secure an interesting topic. Do we always disappear? Does custom evade […]
Li-Mi-Yan’s Nausea
“These dreams were a product of the IV missing the vein repeatedly and causing a beautiful shade of crimson, blues, fading to yellow just under the parchment-like encasement”. There would always be consequences to these observations. The longer days when their skin dried out and flaked off to the pavement before being carried away by […]
“Rebirth Negated by Truant Hope” – Melinda Gibson & Brad Feuerhelm
I can imagine what it is to wake up in a city like Dresden the morning after being carpet bombed by Allied forces in 1945…
Greetings from Auschwitz: All I Miss is You
Images that travel; images for hire. The postmarking of images. The weathering and creasing defamation, which detracts the value of a post-card is insipid as to its method of its perceived “correct” representation or is it?
In The Studio With Hiroshi Sugimoto
Directed by Meredith Danluck Music by John Fraser Carpenter
David LaChapelle on Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat and ‘The Dark Ages’
Warhol by LaChapelle “They wrote about Basquiat when he was 25 that he was finished, his career was done, over, and at 27 he was dead. He didn’t know that that would pass. They told him that the paintings he and Andy did together were horrible. Now people make fortunes out of it, they never […]
First and Foremost, Christopher Wool is a Painter
And If, 1992 enamel on aluminum 52 x 36 in. (135 X 90 cm. First and foremost, Christopher Wool is a painter and when it comes to the discourse on the viability of painting, he shows us that the medium is indeed very much still alive. Excerpt from a Wright Auctions text on […]
A Conversation with Ulay – Founding Father of Performance Art
Ulay. Imagine a combination of a charismatic personality, a subversive anarchist, a bright mind and a daring body. The artist Ulay, better than anyone has explored limits of body and soul and by doing so he has become one of the founding fathers of performance art. MG: Lets start from the very beginning. You were […]