My view of the 120-plus booths exhibiting their wares below gave me the impression of an orderly, manageable event. But that was an illusion. As soon as I descended into the endless allées of galleries, the grid dissolved into a maze. Read More
Hong Kong
Sheila Hicks
Deb Kass
Sensibility of the Times Revisited
THE BASIC UNIT OF THOUGHT in Hong Kong, my Chinese friends joke, is dollars per square foot. Not so f… Read More
Deborah Kass folds an array of sources into her witty mash-ups of art history, pop culture and identit… Read More
To commemorate Art in America’s 100th anniversary, we reenact a project from the January-February 1967… Read More
Collage and acrylic on paper, thread, string, plastic lid
48 x 30 ¼ in.
New York
Tanya Bonakdar
Franz Schreker (1878-1934), the Austrian composer, conductor, professor and director of the Musikhochschule in Berlin, was a major cultural figur...
Sep 2009 Dike Blair is having a good year: in April he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the visual arts, and this month a major exhibition of his work, "Now and Again," opens at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, in Greensboro, N.C. The show, Blair's first museum solo, is organized by Weatherspoon curator Xandra Eden and is accompanied by a catalogue with essays by Eden and writer Gary Indian. Born in 1952, Blair grew up in western Pennsylvania. He earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in1977, and also attended the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. Since landing in New York in the mid-'70s, Blair has charted a singular path, making work that ranges from early paintings on glass to installations inspired by Disney World's Epcot Center. In the mid'80s, Blair began to make modestly scaled gouaches, and has continued the practice ever since. Over the years these paintings have focused on a succession of thematic pairings: travel scenes and still lifes, windows and flowers, and more recen
Nov 1996 Sports and gambling provided the common theme for an unusually diverse group of recent works by Gabriel Orozco.
