Robert Colescott, an American figurative painter whose garishly powerful canvases lampooned racial and sexual stereotypes with rakish imagery, lurid colors and almost tangible glee, died Thursday at his home in Tucson. He was 83.
In Parcours Muséologique Revisité Robert Polidori delivers a sublime photographic tract on architectural revisionism by charting the decades-long conservation project at Versailles. One of the world’s largest palaces, and a symbol of absolute monarchy in France, Versailles is a supremely apropos building through which to address matters of revisionism, having been subjected to four building campaigns (between 1664 and 1697) by Louis XIV alone, and several modifications since.
Robert Colescott, the gifted American artist whose often outlandish but always gorgeous paintings pondered racial stereotypes and other thorny aspects of race relations in America, passed away Thursday at his home in Tucson.
As an ardent film buff, one of my all-time favorite movies I have watched repeatedly since childhood is The Wizard of Oz”. So it came as a refreshing surprise to discover New Orleans artist Nicole Charbonnet’s dreamy renditions of the film as mixed media on canvas.
Stephen Paul Day is the master of fake history exhibits. In past years, he has produced a selection of spurious opera memorabilia, nontraditional interpretations of fairy tales, unreal Tennessee Williams ephemera and a traveling exhibit of factually inaccurate New Orleans souvenirs (with his wife, artist Sibylle Peretti).
Following Stephen Paul Day’s progress as a sculptor is at times like following the history of the medium itself. He doesn’t just work in metal, wood, glass, ceramics and found objects; he gets right down to the basics. He built his own bronze foundry, although it became one of the more unusual casualties of Hurricane Katrina.
CARBONDALE — Finding James Surls’ Missouri Heights studio isn’t all that difficult. The directions aren’t tricky, and even if they were, there are not many shiny-new, 7,000-square foot metal structures in the area. Still, when I drove up recently to meet the artist at his studio, I had a small worry that Surls had not given me a street number.
At the Marianne Boesky gallery in New York’s Chelsea art district, the open-plan office zone is separated from the exhibition space by a wall with an open end, so shoptalk can be overheard from the public area.
Arthur Roger Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of recent paintings by John Alexander. The exhibition will be on view May 2nd – July 22nd, 2009 at the Arthur Roger Gallery, located at 432 Julia Street. The artist will be present at the opening reception hosted by the gallery on Saturday, May 2nd from 6 to 8 pm.
THERE COULD HAVE been no more beautiful sign of the ending of the solar cycle than the snow that fell in southern Louisiana that mid-December morning a few weeks ago.