The confetti has fallen on Capitol Hill. Our new president has been sworn into office and a new era, we hope, is underway. But Tuesday’s inauguration marks more than the end of an eight-year administration, but an end to eight-years of fiercely political art; work that was at its best…
Posted on January 10th, 2009 in Art & Design & Commentary & CommentIn an art world championed by monumental sculptures and large-format prints, Elizabeth Peyton, painter of small oil portraits and aquatint street scenes, would seem an unlikely success. But such is the mystery and romanticism that shrouds the elusive artists’ career; one that begun in a Chelsea hotel room and continues…
Posted on November 9th, 2008 in Art & Design & ReviewIn his second major show at the New Museum of Contemporary Art, special exhibition director Massimiliano Gioni unveils his desolate vision of a not-so-distant future that is at once hopelessly romantic and knowingly absurd. With ninety works by twenty-six artists, the exhibition spans three floors and makes use of the…
Posted on November 8th, 2008 in Art & Design & Review
