Tag Archive "brooklyn-museum"
Out of Africa: a review of two exhibition catalogs
Yinka Shonibare MBE (Prestel Verlag, Munich, 2008) ISBN 978-3-7913-4123-1 Yinka Shonibare is a contemporary of the Young British Artists and while he exhibited with them, he has never been considered one of the group. Unlike them, he creates work of unapologetic beauty. Shonibare uses beauty as a hook; it draws audiences for his manipulated, historicist figures and tableaux which play havoc with received notions about post-Enlightenment Europe and reveal the impossibility of separating cultural history from economic history. His work has been increasingly visible in the U.S., especially since the large survey organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney ... More » »
Sunday this and that
Amazing, thoughtful review of Sid Sachs’ Seductive Subversion show (originating at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery and now at the Brooklyn Museum) by Ken Johnson in Friday’s NY Times. The show is Sachs’ original scholarship on the Women of Pop era, long unsung and overlooked.
Andy Warhol, the movie – the thingness of things
The last scene in Andy Warhol — the first documentary made about the artist after he died in February, 1987 — is a close-up of Warhol talking while he’s having make-up applied by an assistant, presumably for a tv appearance although it’s not clear. He’s having a conversation with someone off camera and he’s talking about make-up. Specifically, make-up that’s applied to dead bodies for a funeral. As he talks, Warhol’s image begins to pixillate, growing more and more abstract as he says things like “Death can make you a star but if the make-up isn’t right, it’s all people ... More » »
Late Warhol in Brooklyn
Brooklyn was too hot for galleries Wednesday. Only one elevator was operating where my son works in DUMBO; the others were shut down for brown-out prevention, under orders of Con-Ed. Given the extreme heat, Andy Warhol: The Last Decade at the Brooklyn Museum seemed like a good bet.
The other F word–women return
Post by Andrea KirshFiona Foley’s HHH #4, 2004, ultrachrome print on paper, 101 x 76cm., Niagara Galleries, Melbourne (Photo: courtesy of the artist and Niagara Galleries, Melbourne) Is feminism fashionable in the artworld? One could be forgiven for thinking so, given two major exhibitions : “Wack; Art and the Feminist Revolution” organized by LAMoCA (see Libby’s post here), where it opened recently. It will travel to the National Museum of Women in the Arts, D.C. and P.S. 1, NYC and… “Global Feminisms” which opened two weeks ago at the Brooklyn Museum… as well as recent symposia at two major NYC ... More » »
Ron Mueck: Unsettling imitations of life
Ron Mueck’s Big Man seems like a quote of Lucian Freud’s big-man model, Leigh Bowery. The two artists certainly share concerns about flesh.Mixed Media, 200081 x 46 1/4 x 82 1/4 inches (205.7 x 117.4 x 209 cm) The side show quality of Ron Mueck’s giants and midgets, the Mme. Tussaud’s wax-works quality (the sculptures are actually made of fiberglass and silicone) keeps everyone looking at them agape. I was watching people watching at the Brooklyn Museum, yesterday. I loved this show, precisely because it is such a crowd pleaser. But it’s more than a crowd pleaser. The astonishing scale ... More » »
