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 [...]
Monthly Archives: April 2009
The Magical World of Samantha Pleet
April 20, 2009 – 3:44 pm
Check out Dossier’s Style section for an interview with designer Samantha Pleet, who talks about her influences (Czech New Wave film, Vivienne Westwood), fashion loves (rompers, of course) — and the latest on her growing design empire.
Protect Protect
April 20, 2009 – 2:55 pm
Sometimes it seems like Jenny Holzer has suffered the worst possible fate of a “prophetic” artist – banality. Her early aphorisms concerning torture and war are said time and again to be uncannily suited to the millennial world. But does it really feel uncanny? In Holzer we recognize our own intimations, the prophecy we all [...]
Cherry Blossom Season Finale
April 19, 2009 – 5:00 am
The Japanese fondness for all things limited edition—sneakers, cell phones, luxury apartments—may well be linked to that country’s emphasis on seasonal cuisine. Food culture is part of the mainstream there, and eaters and producers alike place a great deal of emphasis on provenance and seasonality. So it makes perfect sense that the sakura matsuri, or [...]
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 [...]
LA Art Weekend 2009
April 16, 2009 – 3:26 pm
As a follow up to last year’s inaugural event, ForYourArt and Black Frame gave us the second annual Los Angeles Art Weekend, a citywide web of exhibitions, lectures and performances from standouts in art, architecture, design, and music. All the city was a playground, from Santa Monica to Beverly Hills and as far east as [...]
Ghosts of Ages Past
April 16, 2009 – 3:26 pm
Here is the funeral song to the age of simplicity. White ghosts of ages past. White newspapers, stacked, on a front porch, the black ink smudging our fingertips. And the silver, no longer, of the silver screen. Here, today, is technicolor two thousand and nine. And as we wish away the romance of yesteryear, we [...]
A Companion Painting: Nickas on Nickas
April 15, 2009 – 3:21 pm
In an interview with independent art writer, curator and index Magazine founder Bob Nickas, Neo-Victorian time traveler David McDermott pictured himself and collaborator Peter McGough as “decorative oddities” — not so much accepted as tolerated in the art world of the 1980s. McDermott’s description said something about Nickas himself, whose admitted attraction to periphery genius [...]
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 [...]
