Letter from New York Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art
Letter from New York Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective at the Whitney Museum of Art by Brett Baker Known primarily as the author of the mythic painting The Rose, Jay DeFeo (1929-1989) was an enigmatic artist whose fierce devotion to a single work became her claim to fame. It also damaged her career, and in doing […]
Fashion: Visual Culture Front and Center
Fashion: Visual Culture Front and Center Cynthia Amnéus In 2011 the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exhibition Savage Beauty, celebrating the work of fashion designer Alexander McQueen, became a sensation attracting over 650,000 visitors. I had the privilege of seeing the show sans the crowds as a colleague at the Costume Institute escorted me in before […]
An American Appetite for Living and Consuming
An American Appetite for Living and Consuming By Christopher Hoeting Two new exhibits examine perspectives on domestic living spaces in site-specific collaborations about American Life. On this old fashion road trip, I discovered the dichotomy of Living and Consuming; A concept that is as American as apple pie, not just in American Life, but also […]
Super Cooper: Art without Words
Super Cooper: Art without Words By Keith Banner In a New York Magazine article about the recent opening of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute’s exhibit “Punk: Chaos to Couture,” Nitsuh Abebe writes: “In music, punk remains what the critic Frank Kogan calls a ‘Superword,’ a term whose main purpose is for people to […]
JUST PATTI – PATTI SMITH AT MEMORIAL HALL
JUST PATTI – PATTI SMITH AT MEMORIAL HALL by Kathy Valin One Indian summer day we dressed in our favorite things, me in my beatnik sandals and ragged scarves, and Robert with his love beads and sheepskin vest. We took the subway to West Fourth Street and spent the afternoon in Washington Square. We shared […]
Meaning and Message: Marketing at the Intersection of Arts and Advocacy
Meaning and Message: Marketing at the Intersection of Arts and Advocacy Christa Zielke The conversation about “outsider art/ists” has been constantly changing and evolving for years. These changes are not ones without conflict – from continuing debate on terminology, qualification, to the many issues faced at the intersection of art and disability advocacy. As its […]
Art Academy of Cincinnati Looks to the Future
Art Academy of Cincinnati Looks to the Future Led by John Sullivan, President By Laura A. Hobson John Sullivan, president of the Art Academy of Cincinnati since 2012, looks for teachable moments when dealing with his student body of 200. He offers a supportive comment or a suggestion as he walks the halls of the […]
Geometrically Ordered Design: Angels and Rainbows
Geometrically Ordered Design: Angels and Rainbows By Dustin Pike “Concerning matter, we have been all wrong. What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.” – Albert Einstein This is my Twelfth article pertaining to the design field and its […]
Artists and their models… Models and their artists
Artists and their models… Models and their artists by Marlene Steele In a recently released pop film on the much touted French painter, a gnarly Renoir, grappling with the problems of posing the girl before him, recalls being queried by another artist of his time: “why can’t one just paint apples?” His hissed reply reflects […]
Visually Sound at LOT Louisville Is Virtually Flawless
Visually Sound at LOT Louisville Is Virtually Flawless by Louis Zoellar Bickett, Lexington, KY Visually Sound—the group show at LOT Louisville is curated by the artist and independent curator Aaron Michael Skolnick. For his show he chose five artists from the roster of the renowned RARE Gallery, NYC. Skolnick has stated “I wanted a variety […]