Artdaily (Free subscription) | 26/10/2008
ZURICH.- Alec Soth's photography is firmly rooted in the tradition of Walker Evans, Robert Frank, and Stephen Shore. His depiction of the everyday confronts the ideals romanticized by American society; independence, freedom, religious devotion and individual expression. Through his 8 x 10 camera lens, Soth captures the extraordinary by exposing and utilizing the vernacular of the
in regione caecorum rex est luscus (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Today I achieved something, that might not mean a lot to many people and for the world of me I cannot relate to Autism, but for the first time in my life after a year of learning I felt able to enter the deep end of a swimming pool and to swim 25 metres to to the end of the pool and then to swim back again toward the deep end completing the second length of 25 metres. Now a year ago at the same
Artdaily (Free subscription) | 20/08/2008
KITCHENER.- The Children's Museum of Waterloo Region announced plans for an exhibition featuring the work of Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol's Factory 2009, will feature four distinct areas, offering something to visitors of every age and background. Working with curator, Marla Wasser of
seriously excited! (Free subscription) | 19/08/2008
Édouard Baldus, Le Moine, ca. (...)
Art Knowledge News (Free subscription) | 25/07/2008
MILWAUKEE, WI.- The Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University hosts Biographical Landscape: The Photography of Stephen Shore, 1969–1979, featuring over 100 prints. "Biographical Landscape" offers an opportunity to revisit the seminal works of Stephen Shore (b. 1947), one of the most prominent and influential American photographers to emerge in the last half-century. On view through 28 September,...
Funtasticus.com (Free subscription) | 26/05/2008
Stephen Shore (born 1947 in New York City) is an American photographer known for his deadpan images of banal scenes and objects in the United States. Some people admire him, some cannot see anything novel in his art. However, in 1971, at the age of 24, Shore became the second living photographer to have a [...]
Art MoCo (Free subscription) | 18/05/2008
This recent monograph is the most complete survey of photographer Stephen Shore’s work, from the early days at Warhol's Factory to a variety of new techniques. Portraits of the banal and the landscapes of modern living make up Shore’s...
Inbox Robot: Swiss Reinsurance News (Free subscription) | 13/04/2008
It has altered the course of this country's personal and cultural history. Whether recorded by intrepid souls such as Lewis and Clark, defined by
The Independent (Free subscription) | 04/04/2008
Cinemagoers will experience a strong sense of déjà vu from the photographs of Stephen Shore. It is probable they have passed two unbearably tense hours watching the desert scrub of Brewster County, Texas, the sun-blasted streets of El Paso, and the faux wood of cheap motels. Shore's images of Americana might be stills from No Country for Old Men. He makes the unremarkable edgily remarkable. No wonder...
The Rettdevil's Rants (Free subscription) | 16/03/2008
According to reports, a group of autistic folks showed up at the IACC meeting and gave them a bit of hell, which they richly deserve of course. Ari Ne'eman is trying to get a group together to go to the May meeting, if you're interested email him at aneeman (at) gmail (dot) com. Emailing me won't do a blessed thing, I'm across country. Yaaay ASAN and WrongPlanet and everyone who went and gave them...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 04/03/2008
BETHESDA, Md., March 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Autism Society of America will host its 2008 Day on Capital Hill on March 12 and 13 to increase awareness and understanding of autism issues ...
THAT IS SO GENERIC!!! (Free subscription) | 25/02/2008
Plans for Zaha Hadid's London building for The Architecture Foundation have been scrapped , but another one of her projects is just days away from completion. The glossy, white fiber-reinforced plastic and steel pod took a little longer than planned to fabricate, but all systems are now go for Chanel's Mobile Art project , a traveling contemporary art gallery that kicks off its two-year world tour...
I want - I got (Free subscription) | 16/01/2008
Famous Architect Zaha Hadid (Who did the fun LV bag) has created a travelling exhibition pavilion for Chanel It kicks off in Hong Kong in a month and features 20 contemporary artists works based around Chanel's back catalogue of iconic handbags. The Artists are: Yoko Ono David Levinthal Stephen Shore Michael Lin Blue Noses Leandro Erlich Sylvie Fleury Tabaimo Sophie Calle Wim Delvoye Lee Bul Soju Tao...
in regione caecorum rex est luscus (Free subscription) | 18/12/2007
Today has been a day of both disappointments and satisfaction. To get the bad out of the way first. The door on my Landie has been damaged by a thief trying to get in. It shows the thief's ignorance of the vehicle because there is no latch on the inside which will release the door, once locked from outside, and once in the thief would have had to remove the clutch claw and given the problems I
it's what I do... (Free subscription) | 21/09/2007
I know that Stephen Shore's comments on Flickr being a wasteland were hotly contested. I am not going down that road... and Stephen's out of context quote was already discussed . But every now and then, I come across someone who is really doing some interesting work. I like to show and share here. dodolookster is one that is very impressive. There are people shots, still lifes... all kinds of work,...
