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James Welling at Regen Projects

James Welling shows  new photographs from the "Glass House" series and a video installation "Sun Pavilion."

 The "Glass House" photographs were taken over the course of three years (October 2006 to October 2009) at the iconic Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, Connecticut. 

The photographs of the House (1949), the Lake Pavilion (1962), the Lincoln Kirstein sculpture (1985), and the Brick Guest House (1949) were made with an array of color filters positioned in front of the lens of a digital camera.

Appearance and illusion, the reality of the camera and the photographic print, what we see or think we see, perception and how things are revealed photographically have always been in dialogue in his work. 

"Glass House" epitomizes Welling's investigation into photographic representation and abstracted visual experience, and seamlessly combines these two disparate elements in one body of work.  

Regen Projects

The Prints of John Baldessari: A Catalogue Raisonne 1971-2007

In 1971 John Baldessari made a print of a text-based artwork that has become legend. It said, “I will not make any more boring art,” and the pioneering California conceptualist has been as good as his word. Baldessari’s deadpan videos, paintings, photographs and assemblages, which he adapts from existing imagery, provoke laughter, puzzlement and admiration, often all at once. As both teacher and artist, he has inspired several generations of younger artists subscribing to his belief that anything goes in art and everything in the world can be fodder for making it. He ramps up his photographic works — photomontages juxtaposing multiple framed images drawn from television, advertising or film — by masking telltale noses, ears or eyes with floating, brightly colored dots. Museums and collectors have invested in his unique products for a very pretty penny. Now comes a complete compendium of his more affordable limited-edition works, of which a new book, "John Baldessari: A Catalogue Raisonne of Prints and Multiples, 1971-2007."

 link: T Magazine Blog

"The Old New Age"

Inka Essenhigh

Lower East Side

2009

oil on canvas

70 x 74 inches 

 303 Gallery

January 23 - February 20 2010

J. D. Salinger, Literary Recluse, Dies at 91

 J. D. Salinger, who was thought at one time to be the most important American writer to emerge since World War II but who then turned his back on success and adulation, becoming the Garbo of letters, famous for not wanting to be famous, died Wednesday at his home in Cornish, N.H., where he had lived in seclusion for more than 50 years. He was 91.

Mr. Salinger’s literary reputation rests on a slender but enormously influential body of published work: the novel “The Catcher in the Rye,” the collection “Nine Stories” and two compilations, each with two long stories about the fictional Glass family: “Franny and Zooey” and “Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: An Introduction.”

“Catcher” was published in 1951, and its very first sentence, distantly echoing Mark Twain, struck a brash new note in American literature: “If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it, if you want to know the truth.”

The novel’s allure persists to this day, even if some of Holden’s preoccupations now seem a bit dated, and it continues to sell tens of thousands of copies a year in paperback. Mark David Chapman, who assassinated John Lennon in 1980, even said that the explanation for his act could be found in the pages of “The Catcher in the Rye.” In 1974 Philip Roth wrote, “The response of college students to the work of J. D. Salinger indicates that he, more than anyone else, has not turned his back on the times but, instead, has managed to put his finger on whatever struggle of significance is going on today between self and culture.”

via: The New York Times

 

"Demons and Devotion"

 

 The eagerly-awaited Catherine of Cleves exhibit has opened at the Morgan Library in New York City. A lavishly illustrated Dutch manuscript, it is thought to be one of the most beautiful in the Morgan's collection. Commissioned around 1440, this illustrated prayer book contained Catherine's daily devotions. The original two volumes have been disbound for this exhibit (and preservation treatment). The New York Times ran an intriguing short piece on the manuscript last week. 

For those of you not in NYC between now and May 2, when the exhibition closes, an online exhibit is available. It is the digital facsimile of the exhibit catalogue, showing all 157 illuminated miniatures and including textual notes for each page. 

via: Fine Books and Collections Blog

Sign Language

 
  The Yale University Art Gallery 

presents a special installation of images by Jane Davis Doggett, m.f.a. 1956. Jane Davis Doggett: Talking Graphics features the work of Doggett, a pioneer in the field of architectural and environmental design. 

She is best known for her career in creating graphic identities and wayfinding systems for massive public spaces, including cultural institutions and forty international airports. 

Doggett recently invented the concept of IconoChrome™ images—“geometric designs in colors expressing philosophically profound messages.” Her series Talking Graphics consists of these colorful designs, converted to vector images and printed as books and large panels. 

William Eggleston's First Retrospective Comes to Chicago

The unconventional beauty of works by photographer William Eggleston will be showcased in a major exhibition opening at the 

Art Institute of Chicago this winter. 

William Eggleston: Democratic Camera, Photographs and Video, 1961-2008--on view from February 27 through May 23, 2010 --is the most comprehensive retrospective to date of the Memphis-based contemporary photographer. The exhibition brings together more than 150 extraordinary images of familiar, everyday subjects with lesser-known, early black-and-white prints and provocative video recordings, all produced over a five-decade period. 

Text HAITI to 90999 to donate $10 to Red Cross Haiti relief

 

You can text “HAITI” to 90999 to donate $10 to American Red Cross relief for Haiti.

“Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.” Frank Lloyd Wright

 

  Bruce Davidson

LA (Airplane Window With Palm Trees), 1964

The Drawings of Bronzino

 
  This exhibition is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572), and will present nearly all the known drawings by, or attributed to, this leading Italian Mannerist artist, who was active primarily in Florence. 

A painter, draftsman, academician, and enormously witty poet, Bronzino became famous as the court artist to the Duke Cosimo I de’ Medici and his beautiful wife, the Duchess Eleonora di Toledo. 

This monographic exhibition will contain approximately 60 drawings from European and North-American collections, many of which have never before been on public view. 

The Drawings of Bronzino

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

January 20, 2010–April 18, 2010

Galleries for Drawings, Prints, and Photographs

 2nd floor