© Alessandra SanguinettiAlessandra Sanguinetti will be giving an artist's talk at Aperture Gallery this Tuesday. Alessandra's work is electric, beautiful and iconic and her quick rise to the upper echelon of the contemporary photography scene has been impressive. See you the...
Sunday, 30 September 2007
Friday, 28 September 2007
Photographic Center Northwest PhotoVision Auction
Posted on 08:29 by election
© Amy SteinBenefit auction season is on in a big way. See here and here. This Saturday Photographic Center Northwest is holding their second annual PhotoVision Award & Auction. The folks at PCNW have been very generous to me over the years and I was more than happy to lend a piece from my Domesticated series for the auction to support their ongoing programs and activities. You can check out ...
Thursday, 27 September 2007
Best Schwag Ever
Posted on 20:28 by election
A couple of days ago I received an email from a public relations firm inviting me to a product preview party for Nikon at Buddha Bar in the Meatpacking District. Clearly, these folks recognized me as the influential connector and cultural king-maker that I am and wanted some of that magic to grace their flashy, super cool PR spectacular. As I've stated before, I am the opposite of cool. And,...
Moustache Ride
Posted on 18:06 by election
This evening when I was coming home my subway car had seven men with moustaches along for the ride. Seven! That has to be the highest concentration of 'staces this side of a cop conventi...
Wednesday, 26 September 2007
Nan Goldin "Art Porn" Update
Posted on 13:59 by election
Elton John issued a statement today confirming his ownership of the Nan Goldin photo seized by police.The photograph entitled "Klara and Edda belly-dancing" (1998) is one of 149 images comprising the "Thanksgiving" installation by renowned US photographer Nan Goldin.The photograph exists as part of the installation as a whole and has been widely published and exhibited throughout the world. It...
Tuesday, 25 September 2007
Oh, That Shen Wei
Posted on 13:54 by election
Shen Wei Dance ArtsThe 2007 MacArthur Fellowship 'genius grants' were announced yesterday and I nearly spit my coffee on my keyboard when I read the name Shen Wei listed as one of the recipients. Holy crap! Did my good friend Shen just get access to a cool half million to spend as he pleases? I was excited for Shen, but I was really excited for me because I thought for I would be getting...
Nan Goldin "Art Porn" Seized by Police
Posted on 10:00 by election
© Nan GoldinNot sure if the photo above is the "art porn" in question (and what exactly is "art porn?"), but here's the ridiculousness from today's Telegraph:Seized 'art porn' owned by Sir Elton JohnA photograph by a controversial American artist which is part of Sir Elton John's private collection has been seized by police from a gallery on suspicion it may have breached child pornography...
Saturday, 22 September 2007
Critical Mass Registration is Now Open
Posted on 13:43 by election
© Donald WeberIf you apply to just one juried competition this year, you are pretty stupid. (You should apply to at least three.) But, if you do apply to just one, make sure it's Photolucida's Critical Mass. I can't begin to tell you how many gallery directors, curators, and editors told me they saw my photography first through Critical Mass. I mean, just take a look at the list of 2007...
Friday, 21 September 2007
About Last Night
Posted on 18:56 by election
© Simon NorfolkLast night was Rachael Dunville's big opening at Peer Gallery and the joint was packed with her friends and family from Missouri, supportive SVA alums, admirers, and the endless throngs of art school hipsters, matrons and patrons, and Blackberry cowboys that come out on a typical Chelsea Thursday. Rachael's work looked great and she was deservedly beaming in the moment.After an...
On Newsstands Now
Posted on 10:32 by election
© Amy SteinThe October issue of Money Magazine features a story by the fabulous Lisa Hunter about using the Internets to buy art. The story, The Art of the Internet, is a great survey of art online for the beginning collector. Money ran one of my Stranded photos with the article along with pricing info for the series and a shout out to my Los Angeles rep, Paul Kopeikin Galley. In other...
Wednesday, 19 September 2007
Rachael Dunville at Peer Gallery
Posted on 14:10 by election
© Rachael DunvilleThis Thursday is the opening reception for Rachael Dunville's first solo exhibition at Peer Gallery. Rachael is a good friend and fellow SVA MFA alum who has been working on her great Springtown series for a few years now. I can't wait to see the finished series hanging on a gallery wall. Peer Gallery is also publishing a 32 page color catalog for the show that you can...
Tuesday, 18 September 2007
Terry Falke: This Photo is Blowing My Mind
Posted on 21:02 by election
© Terry FalkeI tend to think that I have the photography landscape pretty much surveyed. Boy, was I wrong. I just discovered the work of Terry Falke and this image from his book, Observations in an Occupied Wilderness, and my mind was subsequently blo...
Parsons MFA Thesis Show
Posted on 07:20 by election
© Patti HallockPatti Hallock reminds that the Parsons 2007 MFA Thesis Exhibition is up through September 28 at the Calumet Gallery in New York. Normally, I'm pretty much an exclusive SVA MFA promotion shop, but now that I'm on the faculty at Parsons, I have to spread the love.Here are the details on the Parsons show:Parsons Photography Department: 2007 MFA Senior Thesis ExhibitionSeptember 4...
Sunday, 16 September 2007
Of Bread and Circuses and Oreo Pizzas
Posted on 20:21 by election
We live in a fabulously depraved moment in time. Whatever your vice, whatever your crave, whatever your want, a shrewd and savvy merchant will be there to sell you relief. Popular culture has become a set of shiny keys to keep us fat and occupied twenty hours a day. In this climate of perpetual excess it's hard for a new product to sink below the clutter and stand out as a champion of defor...
Friday, 14 September 2007
Nathan Baker at Randall Scott This Saturday
Posted on 08:33 by election
© Nathan BakerThe Randall Scott Gallery in Washington, D.C., is presenting a solo show by one my favorite people and one of my favorite photographers, Nathan Baker. The show opens this Saturday and features Nathan's Rupture work. If you live in or around The District, you absolutely must go to this opening. Here are the details:Nathan Baker: RuptureSeptember 15 - October 20Opening Reception:...
Thursday, 13 September 2007
I Love Gifts in the Mail: Jerry Vezzuso
Posted on 18:36 by election
© Jerry VezzusoA couple of days ago I received a package from good friend, Jerry Vezzuso, that contained a copy of his new self-published book, Looking Homeward. Jerry is a master printer who has worked with everyone from Gregory Crewdson to Philip Lorca-Di Corcia to Nan Goldin, but he is equally accomplished as a photographer. Jerry's first book of photography, New American Haircuts, was...
Wednesday, 12 September 2007
Art on the Cheap
Posted on 17:20 by election
© Younga ParkJen Bekman has finally launched her new online venture, 20x200, and I quickly scooped up a $20 print by Amy Ross. It will be interesting to see how hungry the masses are for art in large editions at low prices, but I know I will keep coming back for more.These days the Internet is chock full of opportunities to purchase photography by big names at well below market prices. Apert...
Tuesday, 11 September 2007
The Photographer Who Takes Pictures of Women and Guns
Posted on 07:35 by election
© Amy SteinAlec Soth has often mentioned his theory that a photographer will be reduced to a single sentence that describes their work; "she makes creepy digital pictures of kids with big eyes, he took picture of Parisian architecture at the turn of the century, she took pictures of freaks and committed suicide." For several years my sentence was 'she takes uncomfortable portraits of women with...
Friday, 7 September 2007
Party Like a Rockstar
Posted on 09:44 by election
© Melissa Auf Der MaurIf there is one thing I don't do, it's party like a rockstar. On certain nights I let go and may approach something akin to the party habits of a folkstar or a polkastar, but usually my only incursion into rock bacchanalia involves sitting on my couch watching Rock of Love on VH1. This weekend, however, is all about the rock and or roll music. Tonight I am going to see...
Wednesday, 5 September 2007
Making the Scene
Posted on 22:16 by election
© Kohei YoshiyukiSummer doesn't officially end until September 21, but all the popular markers that spell the true end of the season are upon us. The kids are back in school, something resembling a breeze has returned to the New York City night, and Chelsea gallerists have come home from the Hamptons and opened their shops for business. Like any good fan of art, gratuitous schmoozing, and free...
Tuesday, 4 September 2007
Click Chic at Visual Arts Museum
Posted on 20:10 by election
© Roderick AngleMy dear friend, Dan Halm, has curated his first big time show, Click Chic: The Fine Art of Fashion Photography. Click Chic, which includes 50 works by six emerging and established fashion photographers, is "an exhibition documenting the vitality of fashion photography as a vehicle for creative expression, formal experimentation and social commentary." It should be a fabulous...
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