Tag Archive "new-yorker"

Zoe Strauss thumnailed in New Yorker!!!

Oh, we have to give a shoutout to our girl Zoe, who, marching to her own drummer, has still managed to get the attention she richly deserves!!! The photo The thumbnail

Great reading, New Yorker style

Newspapers keep cutting back on visual arts coverage (the Weekly just decided to use the art page once a month for the next 6 months to cover poetry/performance ). The New Yorker magazine however has been ramping up their coverage of visual arts of late and as usual it’s a great mix of reviews, interviews and little quirky stuff. Here’s three really good things that ran recently just in case you missed them: May 26: Calvin Tomkins profile of Paul Chan who’s currently having a solo show of his projection light pieces at the New Museum — the artist’s first ... More » »

Highlow is here

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 ... More » »