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Monthly Archives: September 2008

MARILYN MINTER & HER MUSE- By Aimée Sinclair

Marilyn Minter and Alicia Renee Thacker. Photograph by Dustin Thacker

AS:  Marilyn, you are credited with subverting the glamor aesthetic that has evolved from fashion and beauty media- As such, does your choice of subject work toward this end?

mm: I’m not sure… but I’ve never been interested in models that are the cultures idea [...]

Michael Kimmelman Mot du Jour: Skill

Adolfo Sanchez, Mona, 1985. Unrelated image contributed by Oliver Sanchez.
This weeks Mot du Jour is courtesy of Michael Kimmelman, Chief Art Critic of The New York Times, who generously sanctioned the use of his erudite verbalisms for the purposes of our deified feature. Thanks also to award winning Director/Producer, Amir Bar-Lev  who worked [...]

Thinking About Performance Art by Dagmar I. Glausnitzer-Smith

The creative process can only take place with the presence of a relationship between the body, the object and the mind. The body is the medium through which a creative flow transpires into the world. The act of drawing seen through the momentary manifestation of traces and marks are imprints and become visual layers [...]

Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin Miami “Saturated” by KAWS

KAWS (on canvas), 2007. Image courtesy of Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris/Miami

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It’s all there if you look for it and behind each ‘it’ that you find there’s a whole new world that makes ‘it’ possible. These days the trends and fads that once gripped playgrounds have evolved into huge multi-million dollar money makers that [...]

NY Photographer Rachel Been in Les Salon des Beaux Bains

Baths, Sharon Springs, NY– Sharon Springs, NY. I travelled north to stay with a friend and co-worker in her abandoned church in upstate New York. The town had a variety of deserted buildings including the revered healing sulfur baths that have been closed for a number of years. You can see a full collection [...]

J.M.W. Turner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. By Thomas Hollingworth

Entrance to the J.M.W. Turner exhibition at the MET
Sadly, the much heralded J.M.W. Turner retrospective at the MET closes tomorrow. For anyone who is not going to get to see it there is a brief walk through below. The exhibition was the first time I had seen many of Turner’s works up close and [...]