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Alec Soth, “Sleeping by the Mississippi” Alec Soth (United States, born 1969) creates color photographs of the disparate scenes and people he discovers during meandering journeys along the Mississippi River. Beginning his voyages in the frozen winters of Minneapol...

Review of Exhibition a...

Artist : Alec Soth

uploaded : Nov 08, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

Upon his return to the United States, Kubrick worked for six months on the Marlon Brando vehicle One-Eyed Jacks (1961). Brando eventually fired him and decided to direct the picture himself. The two had clashed over a number of casting decisions. Kubrick worked on a ...

Spartacus

Artist : Stanley Kubrick

uploaded : Nov 08, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

Alex Singer introduced Kubrick to a young producer named James B. Harris, and the two became close friends. Their business partnership, Harris-Kubrick Productions, would finance Kubrick's next three films. The two bought the rights to a Lionel White novel called Clea...

The Killing

Artist : Stanley Kubrick

uploaded : Nov 08, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

Kubrick's marriage to Toba Metz ended during the making of Fear and Desire. He met his second wife, Austrian-born dancer and theatrical designer Ruth Sobotka, in 1952. They lived together in the East Village from 1952–1955 until their marriage on January 15, 1955. Th...

Killer's Kiss

Artist : Stanley Kubrick

uploaded : Nov 08, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

Kubrick moved to narrative feature films with Fear and Desire (1953), the story of a team of soldiers caught behind enemy lines in a fictional war. Kubrick and his then-wife Toba Metz were the only crew on the film, which was written by Kubrick's friend Howard Sackle...

Fear and Desire

Artist : Stanley Kubrick

uploaded : Nov 08, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

Richie Budd’s politely wary about my request to record our interview. This reticence seems ironic, considering that his oeuvre — both as a solo artist and with the Denton-Brooklyn collective Good/Bad Art — is chock-a-block with performative antics, including loopy, A...

Extrasensory Perceptio...

Artist : Richie Budd

uploaded : Oct 31, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

[w]HOLE, the latest dance theater piece from the women's troupe Lava, is actually an acronym for the "Whole History of Life on Earth" -- but the show is not as serious as that may sound. In fact, it's unusually casual and cozy. Audiences have to remove thei...

Review of wHole

Artist : LAVA

uploaded : Oct 29, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

Simon Starling's work playfully explores the intimate relationships between craft, material, and technique. His investigations into and reflections on modern manufacturing and traditional crafts reveal countless nuanced contradictions in the production of a single ...

From Guggenheim Collec...

Artist : Simon Starling

uploaded : Oct 29, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

Life: A User’s Manual by Massimiliano Gioni Two crooked branches of tropical wood sprout from the floor of the gallery like some sort of exotic plant mysteriously insinuating itself into the hard geometry of the white cube. As our gaze follows the gentle curves o...

Review of Hammer Museu...

Artist : Simon Starling

uploaded : Oct 29, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

For the last 20+ years, Jennifer Morla has been one of the profession’s most visible designers. Her merging of form and concept with an explosion of color and energy changed the landscape of design, inspiring designers internationally. She is a doyenne of design in s...

Interview

Artist : Jennifer Morla

uploaded : Oct 26, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

Kate Millett, the ambivalent feminist The author of the 1970 bestseller "Sexual Politics" may have been the women's movement's most unlikely heroine, or maybe not. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Leslie Crawford June 5, 1999 | How forgotten is Kate Mille...

Interesting Salon article

Artist : Kate Millet

uploaded : Oct 26, 2008

by : Chris Vroom

Locating the work of Hannah Dougherty requires imagination. It is not Surrealism or Pop Art, or even Post-Pop as it has sometimes been called. It shares with the first a propensity towards the bringing together of distant realities, as an earthbound creature such as ...

Review by Mark Gisborne

Artist : Hannah Dougherty

uploaded : Oct 26, 2008

by : Chris Vroom