Is a Ph.D. in fine art a pre-requisite for the production of sexually offensive, hyper-color, infantile comic book styled corporate clutter? If your name is Takashi Murakami than the answer is, “yes”. The self-proclaimed creator of a new art movement entitled Superflat, which refers to what Murakami has defined as the lack of distinction in Japan between high and low art, as the flat space in between. A trend he points to in traditional as well as contemporary Japanese art. According to the artist, “Japanese don’t like serious art. But if I can transform cute characters into serious art, they will love my piece.”
“Goose-bumps”: Louise Bourgeois at the Guggenheim Museum in New York
Posted by in Art Reviews - (Comments Off)Louise Bourgeois’ Retrospective, currently on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, solidifies her status as a master sculptor and showcases her inarguable aesthetic triumph, situating her solidly amongst the greatest artists of the last two centuries. Read more
Our Icelandic friends near the Arctic Circle boast phenomenal landscapes—and, unsurprisingly, many wonderful artists. With volcanoes, crags, and craters, how could they not be eager to explore the realms of sculpture? How could an Icelander resist picking up a camera, or paintbrush, with curtains of light streaking across the sky, and the river water breathing … Read more
The Touching Exhibit – reviewed by Maria Logven and Tom Weiss
Posted by in Art Reviews | Reviews - (Comments Off)touchimg_2413-2.jpg This review of the recent Yoko Ono “Touch Me” exhibit at the Galerie Lelong in Manhattan, is the work of two writers. Maria Logven, a native of St. Petersburg, Russia, writes fiction and poetry and is a regular at art openings. Tom Weiss, a native of New York City, is the publisher of UP … Read more
“Goose-bumps”: Louise Bourgeois at the Guggenheim Museum in New York – by Peggy Cyphers
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Installation view of Spider Couple, Untitled, and Untitled at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2008 © Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation New York Photo by David Heald “Goose-bumps”: Louise Bourgeois at the Guggenheim Museum in New York June 27,2008 – September 28, 2008 Review by Peggy Cyphers Louise Bourgeois’ Retrospective, currently on view at the … Read more
Buckminster Fuller at the Whitney Museum – by Rebeccca Lossin
Posted by in Art Reviews | Reviews - (Comments Off)Review by Rebecca Lossin While living in an underwater dome is not something most Americans dream of past the age of five, “Buckminster Fuller: Starting With the Universe,” on display at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is much more than a nostalgic contemplation of unrealized utopia. Placing a dome over mid-town Manhattan to in … Read more
Cai Guo-Qiang Retrospective at the Guggenheim Review and Interview by Robyn Hillman-Harrigan
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Visionary, rabble-rouser, contemporary artist, Cai Guo-Qiang is the first Chinese artist to have a major retrospective at New York’s Guggenheim Museum. In his artist’s toolbox are explosives, gunpowder, yak skin, live snakes, wooden arrows, real cars, life-like replicas of tigers and wolfs, and trenched up sunken ships. Witness the spectacle created by this modern day alchemist[...] Read more
RICHARD PRINCE at the GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM by Emil Memon
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Richard Prince one man show at Guggenheim is a massive affair. The show consists of different cycles of artists work, his famous cowboys, biker chicks, car hoods sculptures, nurse paintings,DeKooning paintings, check paintings, black and white; color paintings, celebrity publicity assemblages etc…. Walking up the spiral of Guggeneheim in a chronological order you immerse yourself into his world, which supposed to be a pure concentration of American pop culture[...] Read more
Yoko Ono’s “Touch Me” at Galerie LeLong, April 1 to May 24, 2008 On first entering the Yoko Ono show, “Touch Me,” at the Galerie LeLong, one is immediately struck by the presence of a young gentleman sitting on a chair at the edge of an enclosed small room. In that room is a small … Read more
Conversation with Ilana Shamoon by Nina Zivancevic
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I am sitting with Ilana Shamoon on the fifth floor of the Fondation Cartier,
one of the major Parisian centers for contemporary art. For over twenty years, Cartier has been developing a highly individual style of patronage through his Foundation. Since moving to Paris in 1994, the Fondation Cartier has been housed in an airy building filled with light that was designed by the legendary architect Jean Nouvel.
In this unique setting, exhibitions, conferences and artistic productions come to life. At once a creative space for artists and a place where art and the general public can meet, the center is dedicated to promoting public awareness of contemporary art.
Each year, the Foundation organizes a program of exhibitions based on either individual artists or themes and commissions work from artists thus enriching their important collection[...] Read more
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