MUSÉE 29 – EVOLUTION
Evolution explores the concepts of progress, transformation, growth, and advancement in an age when images are taking a dramatic shift in the role they play in our lives.
This Netflix production defies easy categorization. The star of the title is a totally adorable digitally-generated huge pig-like creature with an equally appealing young caretaker living in an idyllic, remote mountainous environment.
“What kind of gaze does the city license? What kind of gaze does it induce, determine, inform, program, organise? What kind of gaze, not only is the subject able to turn on itself, but does the city- machine turn on itself through the intermediary of the ‘subject’? What is the nature of the city as reality…”
These photos depict diverse women in a variety of photographic styles, yet all of these myriad images converge in their subjects’ staged display of femininity.
"Landscapes are the most prevalent genre of photography on display, and some served better as backgrounds for other media"
"Curator Jack McGrath explains that every piece works either visually or conceptually with the idea of inversion, a reference to the symbolism of today’s protest culture, namely the action of hanging flags upside-down.
For her second rendition of Ruscha’s work, Park interprets photographs from Nine Swimming Pools and a Broken Glass (1968), adding vibrancy and tranquility to Ruscha’s simplistic snapshots.
Matthew Kraus knows photography from all perspectives. A distinguished street photographer while working as the Vice President and Senior Art Director at Shahid & Company, Kraus displays intellect and a distinct perspective in the art form.
Picture Industry, curated by Walead Beshty and currently on view at the CCS Bard Hessel Museum, is a sprawling exploration of photography’s past, present, and future. Featuring over 80 artists, Picture Industry provides a fresh perspective on photography’s place within contemporary art as well as science and the humanities.
The Nailya Alexander Gallery’s midsummer show is humming with heat and tranquility. The photographs, mostly black-and-white, work beautifully together, balancing soporific gray hues and high contrast lighting to achieve a feeling of otherworldliness.
People like to give nicknames, but nicknames that stick forever are hard to come by. Alfonso “Fons” Iannelli, a native of Park Ridge, Illinois, began his work in photography at his father’s sculpture studio. He received the nickname of “Fons” from one of his father’s friends who worked in the graphic arts industry.
The re-release of this 1960 film about an attempted prison break is so tightly focused and economical with details yet still manages to convey a whole world concentrated in one prison cellwhere five men plot and execute a plan to tunnel their way to freedom.
