The News Review:
- DVD review: Three to get ready
- NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL
- Museum and Gallery Listings
- Ideal Glass Gallery & Minetta Street Productions present EU WOMEN…
- Rally for Burma in front of Vancouver Art Gallery
- Spontaneity Was the Medium and the Message
DVD review: Three to get ready
Sacramento Bee – May 16, 2008
“”Indiana Jones: An Appreciation” one of the bonus features includes comments on the series by Spielberg Lucas Ford (he says he was surprised by the success of the three films) and members of the cast of the forthcoming film. Spielberg cites the basket scene in “Raiders” and the crushing chamber scene in “Doom” as among his favorites while Lucas mentions the truck chase scene in “Raiders. “The other bonus features are “The Melting Face” an exploration of how the spectacular special effect at the conclusion of “Raiders” was achieved a storyboard look at the “Well of Souls” scene and a photo gallery. Indiana Jones and the Temple of DoomSet in the early 1930s before “Raiders” this film starts well in a Shanghai nightclub and includes a marvelous sequence in which Indy his youthful cohort Short Round (Ke Huy Quan) and a nightclub singer (Kate Capshaw) escape from a plane that’s about to crash by clinging to an inflatable raft. But the movie slows considerably while exploring a mysterious and evil Indian cult before redeeming itself with an exhilarating mine-cart chase. In their introduction Lucas and Spielberg acknowledge that this is the “darkest” of the three films and the one that did the worst at the box office and with critics. Spielberg admits that he likes this the least of the three but he notes that this was the film that was most important to him personally as he met his future wife – Capshaw – during the filming.
NEW YORK PHOTO FESTIVAL
New York Times – May 16, 2008
Organized by powerHouse Books and VII Photo Agency the event is not to be confused with the more familiar type of art or photography fair in which scores or hundreds of galleries show their wares in separate booths. It focuses on a small number of distinct thematic exhibitions each organized by a different curator and displayed in a different space in the waterfront area of Brooklyn under the Manhattan Bridge overpass. The festival’s core consists of four shows. Most traditional is a 10-artist show called “Chisel” organized by Kathy Ryan photo editor of The New York Times Magazine… Martin Parr the well-known British photographer organized “New Typologies” a display of eight artists who following in the footsteps of Bernd and Hilla Becher photographically catalog types of objects or people. Jan Kempenaers has documented amazing abstract Brutalist sculptural monuments constructed in Communist-era Yugoslavia and Jan Banning creates large color portraits of government bureaucrats at their desks in countries around the world from Russia to Bolivia. The two other shows address the circulation of photographic images outside the museum and gallery system. Tim Barber offers “Various Photographs” a selection of 300 framed paperback-size prints downloaded from his personal online gallery on which he displays photographs submitted by professionals and amateurs. Favoring a snapshot aesthetic and ranging from goofy to sublime the show is addictively entertaining. Martin publisher of the book program at the Aperture Foundation organized “The Ubiquitous Image” a presentation of works by nine artists and one artists group who manipulate and recycle found and appropriated anonymous photographs.
Museum and Gallery Listings
New York Times – May 16, 2008
com through May 24. (Smith)Galleries: ChelseaGLADYS NILSSON: ‘RECENT WATERCOLORS’ Since helping to found the Hairy Who a ’60s-era group of rambunctious Chicago image-makers Ms. Nilsson has been painting a zany world of giant women presiding over busy domestic interiors and pastoral landscapes. This exhibition presents 11 lush watercolors made with consummate but not overly polished craft. They might strike a hurried New Yorker as too sweet and whimsical but close looking reveals captivating riches. Luise Ross Gallery 511 West 25th Street (212) 343-2161… Grey Art Gallery New York University 100 Washington Square East Greenwich Village (212) 998-6780. (Rosenberg)Out of TownSMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM : ‘COLOR AS FIELD: AMERICAN PAINTING 1950-1975’ through May 26. An overdue if far from perfect reconsideration of Color Field painting reintroduces the joyful pictorial derring-do of an art movement partly done in by the single-minded advocacy of its biggest fan the great American art critic Clement Greenberg.
Ideal Glass Gallery & Minetta Street Productions present EU WOMEN…
prnewswire.com – May 16, 2008
The latest version of the project EU WOMEN a touringgroup photography exhibition directed by French artist and curatorVeronique Bourgoin EU WOMEN US is an international thematic cross-sectionof contemporary artists and young photographers: “our subject is women andour goal is photography”. The project has been widely presented throughoutEurope beginning in 2006 at festivals galleries and museums in LodzSevilla Arles Salzburg and Paris and will now premier in New York City. Ideal Glass Gallery will present EU WOMEN US as a new curatorialvariation that combines featured artists from the European Union withartists working in the United States: Sandy Amerio (FR) Michel Auer (CH)Linda Bilda (AT) Eugen Bavcar (SI) Lazare Boghossian (AM) VeroniqueBourgoin (FR) Lucy Dodd (US) Risk Hazekamp (NL) Anna Hofverberg (US)Rainer Iglar (AT) Mat Jacob (FR) Nina Korhonen (FI) Charlet Kugel (CS)Richard Lecoq (FR) Jean-Louis Leibovitch (FR) Willard Morgan (US) EricPayson (US) Alberto Rojas (ES) Hubert Sauper (AT) Deborah Schamoni (DE)Jessie Stead (US) Nina Subin (US) Juli Susin (RUS) and Henry Vincent(US). Also included is a collection of 26 emerging photographerscollaboratively selected by the Internationale Photo IndependentInstitution: Atelier Reflexe (Paris) and Cobertura Foto (Sevilla Spain). The opening reception will include a live show with Vero Cruz and hermythic band The Hole Garden. Artworks will be presented in a fashion-showstyled performance with shoes by La Chaussure Minimaliste in a Silverbridge(Paris) production… Artworks will be presented in a fashion-showstyled performance with shoes by La Chaussure Minimaliste in a Silverbridge(Paris) production. EU WOMEN will also be presented by The New York Photo Festival heldduring May 2008 in Dumbo Brooklyn. For additional information about EUWOMEN and EU WOMEN US please visit.
Rally for Burma in front of Vancouver Art Gallery
Georgia Straight – May 16, 2008
gif’> printRally for Burma in front of Vancouver Art GalleryBy Craig Takeuchi Did you read Gwynne Dyer’s column about the situation in Burma? Are you feeling concerned about the 2. 5 million people contending with the aftermath of Cyclone Nargis in Burma which includes disease violence and starvation? You might want to get down to the Vancouver Art Gallery on Saturday (May 17)… there will be a demonstration in front of the VAG’s Robson Street side that will include a rally and a photo show to participate in the International Day of Action on Burma. Participants will be calling for humanitarian intervention of the United Nations Security Council in Burma. Login or register to post comments |.
Spontaneity Was the Medium and the Message
New York Times – May 16, 2008
This being the Whitney the exhibition does not include some of the more provocative images that appear in the catalog. It’s too bad because it interrupts sequences of shots and plays down the Polaroid’s seductive function. A card from Mapplethorpe’s 1973 opening at the uptown Light Gallery made the connection explicit. Invitees opened cream-colored Tiffany envelopes to find a protective sleeve for Polaroid film printed with the words “DON’T TOUCH HERE. ” Inside was a self-portrait made by positioning a Polaroid camera at crotch level across from a mirror. A strategically placed paper dot added a touch of false modesty. The Polaroid technology was inherently collaborative in that models could see and respond to the results of the photo session… In other photographs Mapplethorpe and his models wear masks harnesses and other sexual accessories but even these pictures have a cold flesh-as-marble sensibility. More shocking in a way is a photograph of two men (“Charles and Jim”) kissing in a bathhouselike setting. Wolf compares this image to Warhol’s taboo-defying film “Kiss. ”By the mid-’70s Mapplethorpe had gained access to the upper echelons of creative society and was able to make a living by taking portraits. His Polaroids from this time form an impressive social archive: Ozzie Clark Clarissa Dalrymple Henry Geldzahler. In these pictures Mapplethorpe seems to have used the Polaroid as if it were a more conventional camera.