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.
From mankind’s first photograph of a black hole to the winners of the World Press Photo, this is all you need to know on the ins and outs of the art world this week.
Minimalistic yet chic, elegant yet bold, meticulously planned yet so fun—that is the dynamic that Erik Madigan Heck employs in his compelling images.
Nicholas Kristof: I did it once before that I can remember; in 2003 during a terrible food crisis in Ethiopia, I used a photo I took of the back of a starving child who was all bones and it was the same kind of thing.
Throughout history, it was never the people that stayed home that created change, it was those that jumped on the back of the unbridled ideas who made an impact. The uniqueness and creativity that those people instigated, simply by living a little wild, made a lasting legacy on the world. This is a wake-up call to your unruly and daring side to come into the open air!
The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) held the 39th edition of The Photography Show April 4-7, 2019, again at Pier 94. Nearly 100 of the world’s leading fine art photography galleries presented a range of museum-quality work
Julian: Science always attracted me because of its ability to address different scales and systems within one discourse but it is often expressed in a way that only the scientific community is able to make sense of.
Nestled in Brooklyn, the House of Yes is a wild paradise, that celebrates joie de vivre and unbounded creativity, freed from the restraints of societal judgment.
From Jim Carrey’s political cartoons to the winners of the 35th ICP Infinity Awards, catch up with the ins and outs of the art world in this week’s news.
Nona Faustine: I’ve definitely grown as an artist and as a photographer. The theme of my relationship to the history of this country as a New Yorker and as an African American remains the same.
Steve Miller: I realized that art traffics in the visual language of its time. You have Giotto and such using one-point perspective or mathematics during the Renaissance. Now we have the lens of technology and data.
This work is a transition from paintings to video works. I was painting four big paintings and I had to go to the studio to paint them. I didn’t want to be restricted to the place I work. I thought why not bring the canvas into the outside world and see what the environment would do to the canvas.
At the end of the novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, a young boy imagines his father at the moment he jumped off the Twin Towers on 9/11. He envisions his father suspended in air mid-fall, floating eternally in the ether. This is the concept behind the late Sarah Charlesworth’s hauntingly beautiful images in her collection Stills.
From the opening of The Shed to the shortlist of the Sony World Photography Award, this is all you need to know from this week’s ins and outs in the art world.
April Fool’s the only holiday where you are allowed to prank your friends and get away with it. So if your car tiers get “Slash”-ed, don’t worry it’s for a National Holiday.
Dawoud: My work is not intended to demystify the myths surrounding the Underground Railroad since they are not documentary photographs, but the project is meant to provoke the imagination around that history. It aims to give it a resonant visualization and make that history come alive in the photographic object. The work is intended to place the viewer in a liminal space in between the past and present, and between fact and fiction.
Alec: When I photograph people, I try to be honest about who I am and what I’m doing. Just as I’m involved in reading a subject’s body language, they are undoubtedly reading mine. I try not to fabricate this language. If I’m nervous, I’ll show them my nervousness. If I’m confident, I’ll show them that. If I want people to be real for me, then I try to be real to them.
