Seldom does art change before your eyes. No one, for instance, goes to the Reina Sofia expecting to see Guernica leap into vibrant color. But then Visionaire, the boutique publisher of multi-format art and fashion albums, has always enjoyed exceeding our expectations. Their new issue, Visionaire 56 Solar, a collaboration with Calvin Klein Collection, is [...]
Author Archives: Jared Killeen
Visionaire 56 Solar
May 5, 2009 – 2:57 pm
Robert Longo at Metro Pictures
April 27, 2009 – 3:38 pm
Robert Longo’s last show in New York, “Children of Nyx” (2007), comprised a series of sleeping infants rendered in charcoal. Circling the room, the viewer tip-toed as if in a nursery, afraid to disturb the quietude. Longo’s newest show, which opened at Metro Pictures last Thursday, is not so intimate: instead of dreaming children we [...]
Leo Fitzpatrick’s ‘Fuck Friends’
April 21, 2009 – 1:33 pm
Leo Fitzpatrick’s new show, “Fuck Friends,” is now open at the Asia Song Society. Fitzpatrick, who is thirty, has spent his career cultivating an authentic air of depravity. As a teenager, he starred in Kids; since then he has appeared in a handful of gritty movies and television shows, none grittier than The Wire. His [...]
Phillips de Pury Opening Reception Tomorrow
April 20, 2009 – 4:53 pm
This weekend, Phillips de Pury & Co will hold its celebrated Saturday@Phillips auction. On sale will be a comprehensive selection of urban art, including painting and photography by some of New York’s best-known contemporary artists. An attempt to catalogue for you all of the prints and photos and sculptures and books and trinkets that constitute [...]
Robert Adams Wins the Hasselblad
April 18, 2009 – 2:23 pm
No region of the world has been photographed more than the American Southwest. This is probably because the setting is so odd and otherworldly—orange desert punctured by jutting rock. The irony, of course, is that the SW’s unlikely geological formations have been photographed so much that they no longer appear strange. Most of us have [...]
Dossier Shop: Grand Opening This Weekend!
April 17, 2009 – 3:33 pm
Unsatisfied with a purely textual existence, Dossier Journal is shedding its glossy pages and becoming something more: the wholly three-dimensional Dossier Shop. Think of it as an extension of the magazine: an intelligent blend of fashion, art, literature and design. Then add some really cool tote bags.
This Saturday, April 18th, Dossier will be opening [...]
Fighting Gravity
April 15, 2009 – 3:17 pm
Ski jumping is the only Olympic sport still barred to women. According to Gian-Franco Kasper, President of the International Ski Federation, the sport is not “appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view.” While Kasper’s reasoning is thoroughly idiotic, it’s a fine example of the sort of Victorian-era nonsense that dogs women to this [...]
Koons, Kelley, Koh
April 6, 2009 – 12:28 pm
A new exhibition at the Mary Boone Gallery features the work of Jeff Koons, Mike Kelley and Terence Koh, a rambunctious bunch by any standard. Curator Javier Peres assures us that the show will abide “No tricks, no gimmicks, no bullshit”—and he is right to assuage our doubts. Few other contemporary artists have excited [...]
Kids Behaving Badly
March 30, 2009 – 2:59 pm
The highly publicized Kids Behaving Badly, a new group show at Clampart, features the work of fifteen photographers, all of whom seem immoderately concerned with what American kids are doing on Saturday night. The photographs on display include enough pubic hair, binge drinking and cross-dressing to repulse the most gutter-minded viewer, and while this is [...]
