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Richard Höglund: Hysterical. Sublime.


Just as how Medusa could only be seen -- and thus, slain -- with the help of a mirror, Richard Höglund attempts in Beautiful. Sublime. to document the residual traces of the sublime, an aesthetic construct that almost everyone agrees cannot be represented. He has tracked the development of the Sublime from the external -- moonlit vistas, frozen seas, the Lake District -- to the internal void.


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CONTACT Faces Economic Decline in Photography Head On


Kodak’s recent news was a reminder of the changes and difficult times that we face in the photographic community. Kodak, after 132 years of innovation and market dominance, fell and filed for bankruptcy protection. Kodak, an American institution and household name, was unable to change quickly enough and monetize key digital assets. Despite having inventing the digital camera they could not keep up with the changing marketplace and fast paced competition.


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Documentary, Painting and Beyond


Painting, and featured historical interviews with the greats of past generations: Newman, De Kooning, Motherwell, Noland, Stella, Olitski, Poons, Rauschenberg, Johns and Warhol. De Antonio was making a film as an outsider—and it shows—however, the documentary’s unique insight into the featured artists’ work and lives caused it to become a film that just about anyone in the art world has seen at least once. I’ve personally watched it over 100 times.


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30 Artists To Watch in 2012: Part II

 

 

Sonic boom, are the two words used to describe Matt Jones paintings and Guile's signature move.  For Jones, along with other painters in this post, space is a central concern.  These artists are cutting it up, refracting it, exploding it or filling it to the brim - proving that painting can exist and persist in multiple modes without canceling one another out.  Other artists in this installment are turning body politics upside down in funny, bizarre and disturbing ways.  For more on that see R. Scott Whipkey and Narcisster.


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Wrestling with the Self; Of Mind, Body, and Soul at Fowler Arts Collective
"Of Mind, Body & Soul" presents works that address the theme of questioning and exploring the self, bringing together a diverse cross-section of the current Brooklyn arts scene. Each artist was selected for their singular approach to the title subject. Carolina Duque, Katya Grokhovsky, J.F. Lynch, Ellie Murphy, Caitlin Peluffo, Katarina Riesing, and Ryan Turley uniquely explore deep and critical relationships with themselves.
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David LLoyd and the Collision of Everything, An Artist Talk

David Lloyd:  Well, it's a... you discovered a couple of things about it... It's a manuscript by a 15th century philosopher, mystic and astrologer named John Dee, who was trying to put together a 'theory of everything.'  I've read some of it and it is utterly indecipherable, which is, I think, really interesting, because [the manuscript] is pages and pages of stuff that nobody can figure out, but it seems smart.


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New Pyramids for the Capitalist System, Dumbo Arts Center

 

 

Robby Herbst’s exhibition at Dumbo Arts Center, “New Pyramids For The Capitalist System,” explores acrobatics, class, bodies and interpersonal dynamics through a series of large-scale drawings, installations, and performances of human pyramids. The project was inspired by photos of Herbst’s grandfather (a collection of beach and socialist acrobats) and a 1911 diagram produced by Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) called “Pyramid for the Capitalist System.”


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Space-Real and Imagined: Teka Selman Interviews Stacy Lynn-Waddell

TS: I wonder if it will be useful to frame our conversation around a trajectory?

SLW: Yes—like what’s the story? Truthfully, I have trouble speaking about that, in part because I have a resistance to talking about my work and I‘m still figuring out what it is actually about.

TS: I don’t think it’s necessary that you have all the answers now.


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30 Artists To Watch in 2012: Part I

 

 

The artists presented in our "30 Artists to Watch" are a band of disparates, working in mediums that stretch from soundscapes to installations, acrylics to bed sheets. In this first installment of 10/30, readers get a glimpse of what to look for this year. Particularly exciting are DeVille and Schenkelberg whose works delve into realms of perversion, repulsion, and chaos, pitting their works between terror and enchantment.


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Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography

In celebration of the Chinese Year of the Dragon, the Katonah Museum of Art presents Rising Dragon: Contemporary Chinese Photography, an exhibition of work created by Chinese artists in China since 2000, the last Year of the Dragon. Curated by Miles Barth, many of the 80 works in Rising Dragon have never been seen in the United States.

Rising Dragon offers an overview of the photographic work that is being done in China today. "I see it as organized chaos," says Barth.


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