March 30, 2012 // 1 Comments //

I was in Palo Alto last week and at the Stanford Shopping Center came across a display in a Louis Vuitton shop window of a small white handbag dead center in a fleche of multicolored arrows. …

March 30, 2012 // 1 Comments //

The image accompanying this post (and the original poster of the movie Blow-Up is of actor David Hemmings, playing James, a fashion photographer, engaging a fully (best) dressed duet of erotica as he shoots model Verushka snap …

March 30, 2012 // Comments //

David Richard Gallery, at 130 Lincoln Avenue in Santa Fe, will open at 554 South Guadalupe Street on or about May 7, 2012, taking over the space vacated by Gebert Contemporary. (Gebert Contemporary will be consolidating …

March 29, 2012 // 1 Comments //

An innovation of Thao Votang and Brian Willey, Tiny Park Gallery is the newest contemporary art space in Austin. Located in the couple’s home, Tiny Park is a small space as its name suggests. However, it’s …

March 28, 2012 // Comments //

The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo-League 1936-1951 remembers a 15-year period in New York in which Harlem, communist worker parades, Coney Island, and kids jumping off buildings to cool down in the Hudson River, made photography …

March 28, 2012 // 1 Comments //

The Early Stages — no, they are not a Marillion cover band — are part of a long-standing sub-genre of the American underground/alternative/indie/college rock scene that exists thanks to the undeniably strong influence of The Velvet …

March 27, 2012 // 1 Comments //

Seth Siegelaub’s disembodied voice echoes through the futuristically decorated, cement-floored chamber of the Time Capsule Lounge, part of SITE ‘s March 2012 Time-Lapse exhibition. The location is fitting: we are witnessing a conversation between Siegelaub and …

March 26, 2012 // Comments //

Monroe Gallery’s exhibit of photographs by the recently “discovered” Vivian Maier is a is a long overdue introduction to Maier’s marvelous images, and a revelation on multiple levels.  While her corpus is a historic discovery, it’s also …

March 26, 2012 // Comments //

Maastricht (Netherlands) – If art follows capital, then much of it is headed toward the former epicenter of international communism, Russia.  In the art market, the sons of Lenin are racing to keep up with the …

March 23, 2012 // Comments //

The downtown annex of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs Gallery of Contemporary Art is featuring Phil Bender, Christopher Coleman and Michael Salter, Michael Whiting exploring the cultural phenomenon of conformity and sameness found in …