“An interview with Robert Polidori,” The Ground
Polidori has made a career out of photographing rooms that condense within four walls layers of memory, past and present.
Polidori has made a career out of photographing rooms that condense within four walls layers of memory, past and present.
“COMING out as a Barbra Streisand fan was way more embarrassing than coming out as a lesbian,” the painter Deborah Kass said on a recent morning in her Brooklyn studio.
Dill uses Morgan’s own words to great effect in the installation, varying between further themes of light (heaven) and darkness (hell) and creating an artistic swath that manages to encompass a broad spectrum of emotions and events.
By Robin Cembalest via artnews.com Artists and scholars are taking increasingly nuanced approaches to tracking the image–and influence–of Africans in Western art (excerpt) From Kongo to Tango And next year…
Home Alone, the walk-in closet-sized Franklin Street gallery whose name was inspired by the record-setting copy of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” — which goes on view today at MoMA — and its likeness to Macaulay Culkin in “Home Alone,” is currently host to a comic installation by the irreverent and resurgent art star Mark Flood.
Did Sister Gertrude’s life really make a real difference? God alone knows, but she has become an unlikely muse to at least a few artists in the secular world in spite of her oddness and the always unpopular message of impending doom barking at her heels. One of the most interesting is artist Lesley Dill and her magnificent installation, first at Arthur Roger Gallery and still circulating: “Hell Hell Hell Heaven Heaven Heaven: Encountering Sister Gertrude Morgan & Revelation” (2010). Dill is well known for her fascination with Emily Dickinson and incorporation of lettering, poetry and literature into feminist and spiritual themes.
For her first solo exhibition in New York, Brooklyn-based painter Amy Feldman installed four large canvases (all 2012) snugly within the small gallery’s space. These paintings—as big as 8 feet high or wide—present a simple visual grammar that offers a counterpoint to the effusive visual cacophonies of Feldman’s earlier work.
Earlier this summer, Higher Pictures in New York exhibited a selection of George Dureau’s photographs of New Orleans locals shot between 1973 and 1986. Dureau traveled in both the high…
The Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women is a collection of approximately 400 works of art (including paintings, photographs, drawings, watercolors, pastels, collage, prints, fabric pieces, ceramics, bronze, wood, and sculpture in other media) by over 150 artists. It came to PAFA as a gift in December 2010 from Linda Lee Alter.