Images by Paolo Simi Over 30 years into his career, Salt Lake City-born multimedia artist Paul McCarthy is considered one of the masters of contemporary art. From Disney characters to renditions of George Bush, McCarthy’s iconic investigations and the acme of his legacy have always been about the body. He explores its desires and fears [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2010
The Beginnings of Language
June 4, 2010 – 11:24 pm
I watched this documentary once about people who teach orangutans sign language. The teachers were trying hard to have a communion with the monkeys, to find out what they were feeling and experiencing. You know what the monkeys wanted to talk about? Bananas. That’s it. They only wanted to hear about bananas, and when you [...]
Drill, Baby, Drill
June 4, 2010 – 11:18 am
I got this petition in my mailbox today to stop BP from receiving a bailout from the government for the disaster they have created so I thought I’d pass it along. I find it beyond disgusting that the CEO of BP publicy said “I want my life back” with no regard for our planet, or [...]
Les Indiscretes
June 3, 2010 – 11:00 pm
Unless you are a fashion photographer or a photo geek, you may not be immediately familiar with the work of Jeanloup Sieff but his influence on contemporary photographers is immediately recognizable. Active from the 1950′s until his death in the early 2000′s in advertising, nude, reportage, landscape, portraits and most notably fashion (for magazines such [...]
Tales, Lies and Exaggerations
June 3, 2010 – 11:01 am
Michael Wutz is a Berlin-based artist, well-known for his detailed etchings which show a stunning attention to shading and spacial depth. These works have earned him, amongst other awards and recognitions, an artist residency for printmaking at the University of Texas in 2007, the first price at the Ilse Frankenthal Stichting printmaking competition in 2009 [...]
Bespoke Bikes
June 2, 2010 – 12:21 pm
For their show Bespoke: The Handbuilt Bicycle, curators Michael Maharam and Sacha White (founder and builder of Vanilla Bicycles) have put together a varied and impressive group of 21 bikes built by some the best and most celebrated builders working in the field. Bespoke has the feeling of an introductory course to hand built bike culture, [...]
Louise Bourgeois
June 1, 2010 – 8:55 pm
The grandmother of the art world has died. Louise Bourgeois was a force, a legend, and a personal hero. Still painting and sculpting well into her 90s, she seemed to ripen with age. During her prolific career, she developed a personal symbolic language of spiders, cell-like rooms and intertwined lovers, always placing humor and emotion [...]
Dossier & Exit Art Event: June 4th
June 1, 2010 – 10:35 am
This Friday, June 4th, we’re co-hosting a preview party for the Exit Art Ecstasy Benefit Auction. Proceeds from the auction—which includes artists like the recently deceased, forever impressive Louise Bourgeois, Alfredo Jaar, Yoko Ono and Swoon—go to support new, adventurous voices who explore and articulate contemporary history: social, political and everything in between. So come get [...]
