gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Nan Goldin... Nikki flying, NYC (2007, Cibachrome marouflé sur dibond). From the exhibition Nan Goldin: l'heure magique (The Magic Hour) at Galerie Guy Bärtschi in Geneva.
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 13/09/2008
NEW YORK.- Here is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art, the fifth in a series of ongoing installations in MoMA's second floor Contemporary Galleries, brings together more than 100 works of film and performance, photography, painting, sculpture, prints, drawing, and video drawn from MoMA's collection. Here is Every attempts to link today's artists with their historical predecessors from the
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
NEW YORK.- NEW YORK.- Christie's announced three important sales during its Photographs Week at Rockefeller Center this October. With viewings for all sales open to the public from October 9 -13, the three distinct sales will present collectors with the finest photographs from many of the 20th and 21st century's most important and influential artists. The combined total for all
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 05/09/2008
KANSAS CITY, MO.- Representation of the figure, whether human or animal, has been a fertile source of investigation and debate throughout the history of visual culture. The exhibition Transfigure features 37 works by a variety of artists and is on view September 5November 2, 2008, at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Missouri. Museum admission is free.
Channel 4 (Free subscription) | 21/08/2008
Documentary looking back at New York's 'downtown scene' of the late 1970s, which spawned the likes of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat and filmmaker Jim Jarmusch. Rating:2
Coxsoft Art News (Free subscription) | 27/07/2008
The Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead is in the news again. Last year Nan Goldin's alleged child porn photo was seized by Northumbria Police ( CLICK ). This time it's Terence Koh's statue of Christ - shown earlier this year - which is causing a rumpus. The bulge between Christ's knees is supposed to be an erection. (Koh's grasp of anatomy is as lousy as his art.) Emily Mapfuwa , an NHS...
p2pnet (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
p2pnet news | Off Topic:- Elton John is, “the latest British celebrity to become embroiled in a kiddy porn investigation,” p2pnet posted last year, going on: “It centres on Nan Goldin’s Klara and Edda belly-dancing, a photograph of two naked girls.” Said John’s personal site > > > The photograph entitled ‘Klara and Edda belly-dancing’ (1998) is one of 149 [...]
Boring Like A Drill (Free subscription) | 30/05/2008
Last weekend in London Tate Modern hosted photographer Nan Goldin's slideshow The Ballad of Sexual Dependency . A brief writeup in The Guardian mentions, in passing : In many ways, [singer/songwriter Patrick] Wolf's input actually freshened up some work which has become slightly over-familiar, and gave extra emotional heft to shots that no longer seem so shocking or transgressive (though Goldin defiantly...
The Reverse Cowgirl (Free subscription) | 27/05/2008
A producer at SexTV sent me an email today. They're looking for johns for an upcoming episode. The people at SexTV are good people; I've worked with them in the past. "Hi Susannah, My name is Layal and I work as a researcher for CTV, Canada's leading broadcaster. I am contacting you because we are currently producing a story on Johns that goes beyond the usual stigmas and explores the diverse reasons...
Art MoCo (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
The Devil’s Playground is a huge compilation of work by Nan Goldin, curated by the photographer into sections dotted with text, lyrics and poetry by a variety of personalities such as Leonard Cohen and Nick Cave. The work is...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 01/04/2008
Wallspace Gallery 619 West 27th Street, ground floor, 212-594-9478 Chelsea April 4 - May 10, 2008 Opening: Friday, April 4, 6 - 8PM Web Site Christopher Williams / Nan Goldin Sherrie Levine / Walker Evans / Thomas Ruff Martha Rosler / Jan Groover Gillian Wearing Paul Outerbridge / Eliot Porter Robert Bechtle / Jeff Wall Thomas Struth / Rodney Graham Sharon Lockhart / Charlie White Bruce Nauman / Barbara...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Stockholm - Mexican photographer Graciela Iturbide cited as one of the most influential photographers in Latin America was Thursday named winner of the 2008 Hasselblad Award. The international jury said Iturbide had during the past four decades bee...
Heresy Corner (Free subscription) | 04/01/2008
Yet another art vs. blasphemy story is brewing, this time at the Baltic Centre, Gateshead, the modern art gallery on Tyneside that brought you the Nan Goldin child-porn scandal in September. This row involves the Chinese-born artist Terence Koh, whose exhibition of 74 statuettes includes a foot-tall ithyphallic Christ. That's Jesus with a stiffie. Lo he comes with clouds descending. It's shaping up...
http://artforprofits.wordpress.com/ (Free subscription) | 17/12/2007
Celebrity Art Collectors - From Kylie to Madonna Having a celebrity purchase one of their artworks is a sure fire way for the value of an artist's work to skyrocket so keeping an eye on what artist's celebrities are purchasing works by is definitely worth while. Over the years I have received heaps of notifications and [...]
This is London (Free subscription) | 10/12/2007
A haunting exhibition from Hungarian-American photographer Peter Hujar brilliantly documents the fearful era of New York in the late seventies and early eighties.
