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Highlow is here
By roberta
August 24, 2007 · 3 Comments
That’s what I’m going to call it. The new wonderful interweaving of all art genres in magazines and exhibits here there and seemingly everywhere.
You probably saw the cover of this week’s New Yorker with the Kara Walker image “Post Katrina-Adrift.” Wonderful image, great artist, a “high” art powerhouse, and she’s got her first big solo museum retrospective opening at the Whitney in October. (Kara Walker: My Complement, My Enemy, My Oppressor, My Love, on view October 11, 2007-February 3,2008).
Kara Walker’s cover in this week’s New Yorker magazine.
And if that’s not great enough, P. 74 of the same issue has a painting by former Philly artist Steve Powers (aka ESPO). Powers — a powerhouse of “low” or populist art — has his first solo museum exhibit coming up in October as well — at PAFA’s Morris Gallery!
Steve Powers painting on P. 74 of this week’s New Yorker.
Tags: kara walker, new yorker, pafa, steve powers, whitney museum
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I have to relate Kara Walker’s New Yorker cover image to both Norm Paris (The Escape, with multiple Michael Jordan floating up from the earth)
http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=122233873&size=o and also to Goya.
It’s wonderful that editors of publications like the New Yorker and the Times Magazine section (Thomas Struth last weekend) have figured out they can pay artists for really great images.
Hey ladies, just a note from up north that Lisa Kereszi, who we showed at Moore back in 04 or so and who hails from greater Phila, has been published in the New Yorker (and NYT mag) frequently recently…she’s got a photo introducing the New Yorker’s calendar section in the issue you refer to here.
All best,
Brian W.
hey brian, nice to hear from you! yes! I saw Lisa’s photo in the same issue. Glad you mentioned it and her Philly connection. She’s really interesting and I’m glad the New Yorker’s found her too. (they seem to be using a variety of fine art photogs for the calendar section–it’s a great addition). cheers!