The Execution of Lady Jane Grey
Paul Delaroche, ‘The Execution of Lady Jane Grey’, 1833 The French painter Paul Delaroche may not be so well known today, but at the Paris Salon of 1834 he was extremely successful with this large canvas, and it sold for a handsome sum. Not surprising perhaps, considering it features everything that the French public of the 1830s […]
Architecture of Life
The question of what a particular museum aims to be is, today, so often preceded by the question of who’s behind its design. The recent construction boom among major American art institutions has resulted in the same kind of name-dropping that typically accompanies an Academy Awards red carpet: the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, […]
ORDER AND CHAOS
An artist whose short career was troubled by both psychological and physical trauma, Eva Hesse (1936–70) left journals and other written records of her tragic life and her intense commitment to her work. A documentary on the postwar sculptor, directed by Marcie Begleiter, is screening at Film Forum in New York this week. Below, some excerpts from these documents […]
BOOMBOX RETROSPECTIVE
The installation includes Toyan’s (2002), a group of speakers eight feet tall by twelve feet across inspired by Jamaican sound systems, and Presidential Vampire Booth (2002), complete with a stocked bar and Presidential seal. Sachs’s work is crafted from a wide range of materials such as plywood, foamcore, batteries, duct tape, wires, hot glue, and […]
COATING THE ROOMS IN BALLOON
The balloon becomes part of the existing architecture as the air presses against the plastic to outline the solid shapes of the room. The space is transformed through this new texture, light, and a monochrome color. We’re longtime fans of the ephemeral installations of Penique Productions. They’ve created a surreal series of single-color rooms. The collective, […]
ARTIFICAL BY NATURE
Artificial by Nature continues the artist’s long exploration of distorted realities and altered perceptions, resulting in manipulations of light and color as sophisticated as they are seductive. This will be Laval’s fifth exhibition with Benrubi Gallery and her first since the gallery relocated to Chelsea. Benrubi Gallery is pleased to present Artificial by Nature, the […]
CAN’T STOP THE MELT
On Saturday, May 7th 2016, Buff Monster opens an exhibit at the brand new Galo Art Gallery in Torino, Italy.
10 PAINTINGS @ CCA WATTIS INSTITUTE
The artist’s wide-ranging iconography samples genres ranging from 11th-century Chinese landscape painting to Cubism, and draws on sources both high tech and mundane: spam emails, emoji, internet memes, newspaper classified ads, her own photographs, coloring book illustrations, fantasy environments, vintage embroidery patterns, and a host of whimsical plant and animal motifs. Owens has also appropriated […]
“MOUNTAIN FULL” BY ANDREW HEM
Hem elaborates, “I love creating worlds that do not exist. A world where people don’t care about others’ appearance, and nobody has to worry about fitting in or being an outcast. Where everyone is accepted. No necks, long arms, no nose, blue faces are all normal. This is a world that doesn’t exist, and that’s […]
The Wisdom of the Aging Brain
at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival premiere of You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, director Woody Allen was asked about aging. He replied with his characteristic, straight-faced pessimism. “I find it a lousy deal. There is no advantage in getting older. I’m 74 now. You don’t get smarter, you don’t get wiser … Your […]
CUBAN ROOTS OF WIRE AND PAPER
Born in 1962 in La Havana, Jorge Mayet is a Cuban expatriate artist living and working in Mallorca, Spain. He says, “I recreate with wires, paper, and other elements my own landscapes which at the same time form part of my culture, my roots, and the identity of my town” From his website: Devoided of […]
HASHIMOTO CONTEMPORARY
We are always excited to see new works from Gregory Euclide and his unique installation meets sculpture meets painting style. And it gets us thinking about when the next Bon Iver album is going to drop. Greg (can we call you Greg?) has built this work in the heels ofthe artist’s recent exhibit at the […]
AN UPDATE WITH MECRO
Over the years Mecro has dominated the panels with his crispy clean beveled type and the work speaks for itself. Today we check out a variety of his work that not only includes just trains. If you say the words beveled letters along with trains, anyone who follows the freight train graffiti scene will most […]
SCENE REPORT: LOS ANGELES
Each week we feature updates on current graffiti scenes in a number of major U.S. cities with the help of a few select photographers. Walter Yetman aka The Harsh Truth Of The Camera Eye delivers this week’s Los Angeles Scene Report featurin the work of Reck, Fobek, Hearse, Aidz, Hilo, Ozer, Yeahboi, Wolfe and more. […]
HOME IS WHERE THE ART IS
Inspiring this renovation is the gift of 260 works from the art compilation of Doris and Donald Fisher, who started buying prints and continued to collect seminal pieces of abstract art, as well as Pop, Minimal, Figurative, postwar German and British sculpture. Alexander Calder’s Motion Lab will transport visitors, opening along with the Campaign for […]
