03.31.2008 10:16 PM
Harun Farocki
– pforester
02.28.2008 9:10 PM
Looking through the Lens: Photography 1900-1960
Upcoming Exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art
March 12 - August 17, 2008
“Approximately 150 vintage prints by some of the world’s best-known 20th century photographers are featured in this exhibition of iconic images by European and American artists such as Man Ray, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Weston, Paul Strand, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks. Drawn from the BMA’s outstanding collection, these rarely shown photographs were produced during a pivotal period in the history of the medium—when photography became fully recognized as an art form.”
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Man Ray
Les Larmes (Tears)
1932
Gelitin Silver Print
9″ x 11.75″
– pforester
12.11.2007 12:16 AM
Big Walls to Fill: Art’s Cutting — and Moneyed — Edge Makes a Splash at Art Basel Miami Beach
Washington Post, Monday, December 10, 2007; Page C01
“It’s like Cannes, without the burden of Quentin Tarantino. All the usual suspects: the cool hunters and perfectly accessorized gallerinas, the sheiks of Dubai and the hedge fund boys from Connecticut, the lap dogs and top dogs, the Net Jet setters (there are reportedly more private planes here than at the Super Bowl), the museum donors egged on by their curatorial shock troops, the Houston whales, serious savvy collectors, the young & fun in their little black dresses, the speculators, entire graduating classes of MFA programs, art punks cadging free drinks, assorted blood-sucking ticks, and the simply stunned.�
– Markisa
12.6.2007 1:12 PM
If the Copy Is an Artwork, Then What’s the Original?
New York Times
Published: December 6, 2007
“Since the late 1970s, when Richard Prince became known as a pioneer of appropriation art — photographing other photographs, usually from magazine ads, then enlarging and exhibiting them in galleries — the question has always hovered just outside the frames: What do the photographers who took the original pictures think of these pictures of their pictures, apotheosized into art but without their names anywhere in sight?”
– Markisa
11.28.2007 11:40 AM
History and the Problem of Following the Camera’s Gaze
NY Times
By VERLYN KLINKENBORG
Published: November 28, 2007
“Over the past few days, I’ve looked again and again at recently published images, drawn from two enlarged photographs in the Library of Congress, that very likely show Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg 144 years ago on the November day, the 19th, when he delivered that famous address….He appears in a minute portion of two stereoscopic photographs that were meant to be looked at in a special 3-D viewer.”
– Markisa
11.17.2007 5:40 PM
Artist Talk: Craig Kalpakjian
Craig Kalpakjian is the Artist-in-Residence of MICA’s Graduate Photography & Digital Imaging Program. For more information about his work, please visit his website.
Artist Talk: Monday, November 19th, 7PM
Grad Photo Studios, Bank Building
– Beth
11.16.2007 11:43 AM
The Well-Shaped Phrase as Art
Roberta Smith, NY Times, November 16
Mr. Weiner is rightly seen as a founding figure of Postminimalism’s Conceptual arm, which includes artists like Douglas Huebler, Robert Barry, Joseph Kosuth and Sol LeWitt. But he might better be described as a language-based sculptor. He folds together the skills of a Russian Constructivist graphic designer, a Socratic philosopher, a Dada-Fluxus joker, a Concrete poet and a Madison Avenue ad executive with an astute sense of both semiotics and public display.
– Markisa
11.15.2007 7:24 PM
I.B.M. to Push ‘Cloud Computing,’ Using Data From Afar
The I.B.M. strategy, to be announced today, seeks to exploit the technical work and commercial interest in large data centers that can be run more efficiently, searched for information and programmed from remote locations over the Internet. Read More…
– Buckland
