Straight Up features Stephen Deutch (1908-1997). A longtime friend of Nelson Algren's, Deutch was born in Budapest, Hungary. He studied sculpture there at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
It takes private and public sector leaders with vision to understand what Francis Scott Key understood in the mist on that morning with a poem, a song, a flag, and the future in his sight.
As art has grown ever more referential and every medium, self-referential -- when there is nary an image that does not lay claim to a legacy of irony that is now generations deep: well: what can possibly come next? Answer: Alex Prager.
Bright White Underground at LA's once pristine, modernist Buck House evokes the atmosphere of a 1950s CIA safe house for testing LSD.
Tiphanie Brooke wavers between calling herself a graphic designer and calling herself a "graphic artist who does fine art." Perhaps by breaking the rules, the titles no longer matter.
Film is the medium that distinguishes and unties communities. Without their own films, minorities melt into the majority, and barely leave a trace of their once dynamic past.
Rob Walker's newest project for New Orleans proves him to be no less than a bonafide optimist. He's proposing that we use art and design to alter our perceptions of a downtrodden environment.
Dominique Tarle's presence at Nellcote that would produce some of the most extraordinary photographs of the Rolling Stones ever taken.
In 2008, the city of Liverpool was named Europe's Capital of Culture. Lewis Biggs can take a lot of credit for that achievement.
The program included heartbreaking panels with exiled journalists and poets from Iran, South America, and China who had undergone imprisonment and torture for many years on end.
I look at the humble materials of Alberto Burri's early works and see the deprivation of his life -- a young Italian doctor of the Fascist party, a POW in an American camp in a remote area of Texas.
Roland invites us to meditate on the ways in which the structures created by the artist can transform the way we see things.
ARTINFO perused the new book, Max's Kansas City: Art, Glamour, Rock and Roll to cull 11 things you didn't know about Max's. And boy, are they Grade-A juicy.
Whether deploying a chorus line of Ku Klux Klansmen, mocking every symbol of Christianity, or filling the theatre with nonstop profanity, Jerry Springer:The Opera has something to offend everyone.
Am I crowing about Dennis Hopper and Herb Alpert because I'm just another star-lover? No. By the evidence currently on view, Dennis Hopper and Herb Alpert have earned the right to be taken seriously as visual artists.
An industrial building has been reconfigured to accommodate the adventurous appetites of these childhood buddies, who have taken their street art from Brooklyn to the Tate -- with many stops along the way.
We are indeed small in the world and Lamson's A Line Describing the Sun reinforces this fact while also asking us to question our intentions and exertions on the land.
Artists' advisors can be distinguished from business managers, who run an artist's career, reps, who sell work, and public relations firms, who publicize, in that their goal is to set the artist on a career path.
In real life, actor-director Nikita Mikhalkov is associated with nationalistic politics, but in his films at least he conveys a great deal of humanity and sympathy for individuals of all stripes victimized by Russia's bloody history.
Patricia Zohn, 2010.09.27
George Heymont, 2010.09.27
Jan Herman, 2010.09.25
Cat Weaver, 2010.09.25
