Andrea del Sarto (1486-1530) Studies of the Head of an Infant, ca. 1522. Red chalk, 9 3/4 x 7 1/4 inches. Galleria deli Uffizi, Gabinetto Diisegni e Stampe, Florence, by permission of the Ministero die been e dell attività culturali e del truismo.
Behind every adoring saint, serene madonna, and chubby Christ child in so many Italian Renaissance altarpieces there are surely flesh and blood people, the assistants, lovers, and children of the
In his performance, Through the Looking Glass II, Gerhard Lang passed through Greenwich Village and the Bowery viewing the city solely through a Claude Lorrain mirror – a darkened
Kerry Downey, To Do list, Video and photography, in collaboration with Jen Rosenblit and Joanna Seitz. 2012-2013.
I am fascinated by the old elevators of New York. Those heavy, unwieldy machines that lift one up to vintage factory-type places, possessed by the spirit of the industrial revolution.
Dana Levy’s The Weight of Things animates a 19th century etching of the bedroom in the Palace of Versailles in the midst of an earthquake. Every detail, from the
Combining the handmade with the digital, Sarada Rauch reinterprets traditional narratives with contemporary imagery, to keep conversations about current events active. Trace is a documentation of discovery. Rauch
Combining the handmade with the digital, Sarada Rauch reinterprets traditional narratives with contemporary imagery, to keep conversations about current events active. And that’s just how they built it is
Drawing Together
I was the last participant in Felice Koenig’s participatory exhibition Drawing Together, organized by curator Claire Schneider of CS1 Projects, at Big Orbit in Buffalo. The day of my visit,
In this film by Art 21, artist Rashid Johnson charts a decade-long aesthetic and professional development from his early portrait photographs to his later conceptually-based sculptures made from glass, wood,
Animals debate the sticky subject of body dysmorphia and the merits of reconstructive surgery in this short animation by Jessie Mott. Jessie Mott and Steve Reinke EVERYBODY 2009 4
In Blood & Cinnamon Mott’s creatures discuss existential crises as they flip and rotate and disappear from view. Jessie Mott and Steve Reinke Blood and Cinnamon 2010 5 minutes