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.
Inside Aura Rosenberg’s studio in Soho, the artist talked about her latest work, Statues Also Fall In Love that includes lenticular prints, marble sculptures and videos that explore the eroticism of classical sculptures and the timeless of desire.
Andrea Blanch: I enjoyed the film very much, I wish it had been longer.
Jennifer Stockman: We have so much material still. We have all this footage and so many great interviews with more artists and collectors that fit into our existing story arcs
From the Oscars dissing the film industry to Cuban artists protesting government censors, read all about the ins and out of the art world here.
“There’s certainly an ambivalence in the work,” the Singaporean photographer known simply and enigmatically as Nguan told us at Musée. “Many of the images can be read in dual ways. For example, the image of a rainbow painted on the façade of a public housing block may be viscerally enchanting, but it can also speak of the calculated way in which dreams, mood, and behaviors can be engineered.”
Dawoud Bey, Jess T. Dugan, Rosalind Fox Solomon, Shahidul Alam, and Zadie Smith have been announced as the honorees of this year’s Infinity Awards, organized by The International Center of Photography in New York.
Starting February 5, millions of Chinese men and women celebrate the Lunar New Year. Also known as the Spring Festival, this celebration lasts for at least three days and nights. We usher in the Year of the Pig--the last animal of the zodiac who governs prosperity, compassion, and generosity.
Andy Warhol stole the show with a surprise appearance in this years Super Bowl. The game, which is know for it’s high-profile advertisements had a Burger King commercial featuring Andy Warhol eating a Whopper, uninterrupted for 45-seconds and ending with the hashtag #EatLikeAndy.
Lillie Eiger is a London based photographer originally from Chicago. Eiger first shot behind the scenes for the band xx. Her work continues into the backstage of fashion shows. Type her name into Dazed Magazine’s search bar and her work continues to scroll .
The retreat, located in South of France will take place over the course of 7 nights. The Photography Master Retreat is not only a critique but also a workshop-based experience that emphasizes self-reflection with the goal of advancing the participants’ practice to levels they may not have thought possible.
Enter Kelsey Lu; an artist who gathers much of her artistic inspiration from the motion of water and seems to spin out music thoughtfully and deliberately, much as someone would unravel thread from a wooden spool. Her tones are slowly and deeply hypnotizing. A cellist by trade, the non-shaving and gender-open 26-year-old carries the aura of an individual wise beyond her years.
When non-fiction filmmakers Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin decided to profile their friend and professional rock climber Alex Honnold, they didn’t grasp the enormity of the danger the ace mountaineer would assume. Nor did they appreciate the full degree of the personal, professional, and ethical risks they, too, were about to take.
Jonas Mekas (b. 1922), a prolific filmmaker, film critic, and docent of American avant-garde cinema — and consequently nicknamed “the godfather” of American avant-garde cinema — passed away Wednesday, January 23, at the age of 96.
Dear Mr. Adrian Lyne, We miss your presence in theatres. Your films gather characters’ dysfunctions and mend their gloomy lives through the delicate haze of soft and natural lighting.
Like a lot of other film students in college, I had to watch the groundbreaking French film by Jean Luc-Godard, Breathless. Like a lot of other college students, I was a bit of an obnoxious
Columbine shocked the world in 1999. “It should never happen again.” Then, Virginia Tech in 2007. “It should never happen again.” Then, Sandy Hook in 2012. “It should never happen again.”
Chutian Shu is a New York based Chinese artist. Her work investigates surrealistic narrative which explores how people pose and interact unexpectedly with anonymous objects can create unfamiliar but poetic sceneries in both institutional and natural environment where we experience everyday.
