A video from BBC News reports on the first-ever Fine Art goodwill ambassador for the UN, Ross Bleckner. He’s spearheading an initiative in northern Uganda to ease the trauma of former child soldiers using art therapy. Some pictures these children produce are available for viewing and sale at the UN headquarters in NYC– money raised funds the continuation of this worthwhile project. Check [...]
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Child soldier art selling at United Nations headquarters
Posted in Exhibitions, News, tagged art therapy, child soldiers, New York City, Ross Bleckner, Uganda, United Nations on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Kiev is hot for Damien Hirst
Posted in Exhibitions, tagged Andreas Gursky, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Kiev, Sotheby's, The Kingdom, Ukraine, Victor Pinchuk on May 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Washington Post reports that Victor Pinchuk, Ukraine’s wealthiest man and an avid art collector, has organized a large retrospective of Damien Hirst‘s work in Kiev. The opening party brought the likes of Andreas Gursky and Jeff Koons, and over 10,000 people have already attended the exhibition in just its first three days. The article, [...]
Thoughtful review of MoMA’s “Into the Sunset…” exhibit
Posted in Exhibitions, Reviews, tagged American West, art, Darius Kinsey, Into the Sunset, MoMA, photography on May 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve read quite a few reviews of the new MoMA exhibit “Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West,” but I would recommend the slide-show essay by Sarah Boxer at Slate. Sarah is really thoughtful about the perceptions the larger public has of certain geographic regions because of the images to which it has been exposed. [...]
Upcoming John Wood exhibition at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery
Posted in Exhibitions, tagged John Wood, Martin Luther King, NYU Grey Art Gallery, On the Edge of Clear Meaning, photography on May 1, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a neat-looking exhibition coming up in two weeks at NYU’s Grey Art Gallery featuring “photographic renegade” John Wood. From the gallery: John Wood (born 1922) has consistently challenged traditional photography, often incorporating painting, drawing, and collage as well as cliche verre, solarization, and offset lithography. Transgressing the boundaries of “pure photography,” his eclectic practice [...]
Visiting Walker Evans’s Alabama
Posted in Artists, Exhibitions, tagged Alabama, Metropolitan Museum of Art, photography, postcards, The Great Depression, Walker Evans on April 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
There’s an enjoyable article titled “On the Path of Walker Evans” by Laura Holson in the Escapes section of The New York Times today. The author travels through the small towns in Alabama where Evans, during the depression era, took photographs that offer poignant social commentary from that period. The slideshow that accompanies this article contains ”Roadside Stand [...]
Recommended photo exhibit in NYC closing May 9th
Posted in Exhibitions, Reviews, tagged Gitterman Gallery, Glory, photography, Robert D'Alessandro on April 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m a big fan of the current exhibition at Gitterman Gallery featuring vintage works by the photographer Robert D’Alessandro. The images were collectively apart of the 1973 book Glory, and depict individual associations with the American flag during that tumultuous period. I promise to work on writing unique reviews, but want to share The New [...]
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