All Things Art & Photography
Reading like a 3-D map of Hannibal Lecter’s mind or possibly a allegory for the entire contemporary art world, David Altmejd creates a beautiful installation titled: The Flux and the Puddle at the Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York. Having seen this show in person I can assure you that never has plexiglass been so interesting….
David Altmejd Juices at the Andrea Rosen Gallery
Exhibition: David Altmejd
Photo by Jim Henderson
The International Center of Photography will be closing its Midtown museum. Executive director Mark Lubell confirmed this to artnet News in a statement. Its lease with its landlord, the Durst Organization, is coming to an end in January 2015, and the center has not renegotiated a new lease. Currently the organization, which includes a photography museum, school, and research center, is on the lookout for a new space for its museum.At our request for an interview, Lubell issued the following statement.
“The International Center of Photography has been and continues to be at the center, both nationally and internationally, of the conversation regarding photography and the explosive growth of visual communications. In advancing this conversation, ICP has decided to move its current museum to a new space. This decision reflects the evolution of photography and our role in setting the agenda for visual communications for the 21st century. ICP will announce our future sites this spring. The school will remain at 1114 Avenue of the Americas in Midtown Manhattan.”
The museum, which was founded in 1974, has been at its Midtown location, in the ground floor retail space, since the 1980s. According to Jordan Barowitz, director of external affairs for the Durst Organization, the ICP has been a tenant of the Durst Organization since 1968 when the ICP was known by its earlier name, the International Fund for Concerned Photography. The sum that the ICP pays, he said, is and always has been nominal during the time of institution’s tenancy with Durst. “They only pay operating expenses and don’t pay rent,” Barowitz said, though he refused to go into detail about the terms of the ICP’s current lease.
via International Center of Photography Set To Close Its Midtown Museum – artnet News.
International Center of Photography Will Close 2015
Both Chuck Close and Kiki Smith are making tapestries with the help of Magnolia Editions. While Close’s look mostly like pixelated, textured photographs, Kiki Smith’s “wall rugs” are really incredible. Below are three from 2012 as well as one I captured from the 2014 Pace show here.
via http://blog.magnoliaeditions.com/2012/08/press-release-kiki-smith-tapestries.html
Magnolia Editions Tapestries
I love to see a bunch of young white kids who love soul as much as these guys do. They may look more like tech guys but hey; they made the cut at SXSW 2014 according to Rolling Stone so lets give them some R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
BEST SOUL REVIVALISTS: St. Paul and the Broken Bones
Paul Janeway is a pudgy dude from Birmingham, Alabama, who has clearly studied his Otis Redding and James Brown hard. At Stubb’s on Tuesday, dressed in a sharp suit with a handkerchief in his breast pocket (natch), he and his Dap Kings-style outfit powered through one of a half-dozen festival sets here, sweating, hollering, blowing and basically looking like a bunch of junior high school band nerds who raided their grandpa’s attic. We can’t wait for the inevitable collaboration with their homeys Alabama Shakes for a cover version of Otis and Carla Thomas’ King and Queen LP.
Music Break: St. Paul and the Broken Bones
Adam Magyar is a brilliant Hungarian photographer who spends his days thinking about visualizing time. He has designed his own scanning cameras as well as working with different ways to capture time and motion with high speed video. He is the Muybridge of our time.
Detail #323 ( 1 minute 55 seconds )
Installation view: http://www.lightwork.org/archive/adam-magyar-kontinuum/
Very interesting talk on his work via poptech.org
Nice article on him here: https://medium.com/p/88aa8a185898
The Photographic Works of Adam Magyar