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Weekly Update–Richard Amsel’s Hollywood at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery

The Weekly has a Queer issue this week and I’ve got two pieces in it.  Here’s the first, about Richard Amsel, this year’s featured Equality Forum artist.  The show’s at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery. Whether you’ve seen the film or not, you probably know Raiders of the Lost Ark by its sexy pulp-fiction-style poster art. What you won’t know is who created the movie’s brand—its vision of the fedora-wearing Indiana Jones cracking a whip above his head and smirking.

Woo hoo! A new episode of Look! It’s Libby and Roberta!

Thanks to our video guru, artiste extraordinaire David Kessler for this magical trip (if we do say so ourselves) through Joshua Mosley‘s and Anthony Campuzano‘s shows at ICA and through the micro-film sets of the Quay Brothers at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery. You can see these shows at ICA until March 29; and at Rosenwald-Wolf until April 9. See previous videos in this series on our video page (link above in the nav bar).

Reviewing American Art History: Aaron Douglas and Salvatore Meo

Aaron Douglas Aspects of Negro Life: The Negro in an African Setting (1934) oil on canvas, Schomberg Center for Research in Black CultureAaron Douglas; African American Modernist at the Schomberg Center, NYCAaron Douglas was the major painter of the Harlem Renaissance, yet most people who recognize his name probably only know his work in reproduction. Douglas’ first traveling retrospective, representing all of his mural projects as well as easel paintings and illustrations, is making its final stop at the Schomberg Center for Research in Black Culture, the New York Public Library branch at 135th St. through Nov. 30, 2008 (the ... More » »

Women and Pop #3

The newest installment of the Women and Pop series is up! Sarah Wilson, art historian from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, speaks about the position of female artists during the formative years of Pop Art (the 1960s). The issues haven’t changed all that much. The art visuals are sparse, but they are great when they do finally appear. Seeing men in suits approaching the Niki de Saint Phalle uber woman, Hon, with the walk-in vagina, is worth the wait. Besides Saint Phalle, Wilson also discusses work by ’60s Pop artists Evelyne Axell and Pauline Boty. I can’t wait until ... More » »

Women and Pop–the second preview

video still of Rosalyn Drexler speaking about her life as an artist and wrestler, from vlog www.womenandpopart.blogspot.com If you loved Sid Sachs on video at the end of October, talking about the future women and Pop exhibit at UArts, you’re sure to love the newest video from the show series, this one Rosalyn Drexler (A Life in Art). The vlogs, both online at www.womenandpopart.blogspot.com, are about the exhibit Beyond the Surface: Women and Pop Art 1958-1968, scheduled at Rosenwald-Wolf in 2010 (Geez, I hope we don’t die waiting!!) Leading up to the exhibition date, we are getting this series of ... More » »

The slippery truth–contemporary art photography

James Johnson, When I was a Kid I thought Mr. Rogers Could See Me Too2006, detail,inkjet prints; on the monitor to the right is a video by Kara Crombie. Photography is all over town–and there’s more on the way. From L’Autre, a group show at University of the Arts, to Tina Barney at Gallery 339, to James Johnson’s installation in the faculty show at Moore College, (not to mention Joel Katz’s 1964 photographs of Mississippians in the midst of the Civil Rights Era, also at Moore), to Eileen Neff’s eerie work at the ICA, I couldn’t help but think of ... More » »

Rosalyn Drexler at PaceWildenstein

Rosalyn Drexler, Race for Time, 1964 Here’s a few photos from the opening Thursday night of Rosalyn Drexler‘s show “I am the Beautiful Stranger: Paintings of the ’60s” at PaceWildenstein. We at artblog have been beating the drum for this artist since we saw her amazing show in 2004 at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery. Rosalyn Drexler, right, dressed like her paintings, in 3 basic colors: white, black and red. We asked the artist, who we believe may be 80 years old, how she got this show at Pace. She told us that she emailed Arnie (Glimcher, head of the gallery), with whom ... More » »

Wite-out forever: R.Crumb’s corrections

One of comic strip artist R.Crumb’s sketchbook pages; all these photos of Crumb’s sketchbooks supplied by Rosenwald-Wold Gallery Before I get embroiled in the silly stuff that sets my mind spinning, I need to say that for R.Crumb fans–I’m one of them–the show Robert Crumb: My True Inner Self at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery offers more than just a review of the range of his comic book drawings, but also a mix of his cartoons and drawings on things like napkins and paper towels and other non-standard drawing surfaces. Crumb is one of those obsessive guys who has to express what’s on ... More » »

R. Crumb Alert!

Thanks, Sid Sachs, for the heads’ up on the great article on Robert and Aline Crumb in today’s NY Times. (Read the article quick — and take the nice audio slide show — before it goes to Times Select.) Comic book page by Aline CrumbThe story is mostly about what it’s like being Mrs. Crumb–wife of the famous cartoonist but also a free spirit (in an open marriage with several liaisons) and also a cartoonist in her own right soon to have a comic memoir and a solo show in New York at Adam Baumgold Gallery, Feb. 15 through March ... More » »

Reality Testing: Walter Cade III and Ann-Marie LeQuesne?

Jeans Hangin’ Out Back In a funny confluence of art-world serendipity, I really did visit Walter Cade III’s solo exhibit, Prancing Reflections, Strutting Shadows, at Sande Webster Gallery the same day I visited Ann-Marie Lequesne’s exhibit, After the Fact,at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery at the University of the Arts (see Roberta’s excellent post on Lequesne here). My only regret about this pairing was that I was unable to add Matt Fisher mini-exhibit at the 816 Gallery at UArts to the mix–the gallery was closed. Cade, who in the late 60s and early 70s showed at the Whitney Museum and the Corcoran, is ... More » »