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
A Different Stripe (Free subscription) | 28/08/2008
The Caustic Cover Critic has outdone himself with his recent post aggregating what seems thousands of covers of the works of John Wyndham. Given the sci-fi genre treatment (not always the most aesthetically pleasing) that his books could have been...
Dohiyi Mir (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
NYTimes: As it sifts through the riches of the extraordinary Gilman Collection of photographs, acquired three years ago, the Met is slowly bringing its holdings of contemporary photography up to speed. In the fall the museum dedicated a new gallery,...
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 14/07/2008
By Madhusree Chatterjee New Delhi, July 14 (IANS) Can a photograph simultaneously convey a sense of distance and proximity? If it’s been taken by a student of prominent German photographers Bernd and Hilla Becher, it most certainly can - as is evident at an exhibition underway here. For Indians, who are viewing the works of the Becher [...]
The Herald (Free subscription) | 11/06/2008
REVIEW: There’s something a little out of focus about the Tate Modern’s sprawling new photography exhibition.
Blabber, Etcetera (Free subscription) | 14/05/2008
What happens in Miami doesn't have to stay in Miami. In fact, if all goes well, visitors should leave there with something to take home and put on the wall -- or on the floor or in the closet. At least that's the message of the city's newest tourism campaign , which replaces bikini-clad lovelies lounging poolside at boutique hotels (not that there's anything wrong with that) with the work of local...
Junk for Code (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
I know little about contemporary German photography apart from the work of Andreas Gursky and the landscape work of Michael Reisch. My impression is that photography in Germany is booming. What I do know that in the 1920s and early ‘30s German photography was dominated by two distinct approaches to...
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...
ArtCal (Free subscription) | 01/11/2007
David Zwirner Gallery 525 West 19th Street, 212-727-2070 Chelsea November 9 - December 22, 2007 Web Site Thomas Ruff Opening on November 9, 2007, David Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by German artist Thomas Ruff. This will be the artist's fifth solo exhibition at the gallery. In 2007, Ruff was the subject of two one-person museum exhibitions at Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden...
Slog (Free subscription) | 19/09/2007
And the claim that I first made Friday hasn't faded with the jet lag. I'm referring to Artempo , an exhibition of objects and experiences, both art and otherwise, on display at the Palazzo Fortuny in Venice. A little background: The Venetian government decided it would create a new modern museum at the Palazzo Fortuny , and Artempo starts things off with a serious bang. The palazzo is a relic best...
