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Exhibition: ‘Lorna Simpson’ at Jeu de Paume, Paris
Exhibition dates: 28th May – 1st September 2013 . Fascinating practice! Identity, memory, gender, representation, the body, the subject, felt, text, images, video, gesture, reenactment, concept and...
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Exhibition: ‘Cindy Sherman – Untitled Horrors’ at the Astrup Fearnley Museet,...
Exhibition dates: 4th May – 22nd September 2013 . Like a mouthful of cinders. . Many thankx to the Astrup Fearnley Museet for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the...
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Exhibition: ‘Un/Natural Color’ at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa...
Exhibition dates: 7th July – 29th September 2013 . Many thankx to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on the photographs for a larger...
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‘The War at Home: Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information...
Kodachrome sheets 1941 – 1943 . This is the first of a two-part posting on the large format Kodachrome colour transparency photographs of the American photographer Alfred Palmer taken during 1941-43. I...
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Exhibition: ‘Edward Steichen & Art Deco Fashion’ at NGV International, Melbourne
Exhibition dates: 18th October 2013 – 2nd March 2014 . You saw it here first on Art Blart! What a gorgeous exhibition. It’s about time Melbourne had a bit of style put back into the National Gallery of...
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‘The War at Home: Farm Security Administration / Office of War Information...
Kodachrome sheets 1941 – 1943 . This is the second of a two-part posting on the large format Kodachrome colour transparency photographs of the American photographer Alfred Palmer taken during 1941-43....
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Exhibition: ‘Lee Friedlander – America by Car’ at Foam, Amsterdam
Exhibition dates: 13th September – 11th December 2013 . “I’m not trying to do something to you, I’m trying to do something with you.” . American pianist and composer Keith Jarrett at a concert in...
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Exhibition: ‘Detroit 1968: Photographs by Enrico Natali’ at Joseph Bellows...
Exhibition dates: 2nd November – 21st December 2013 . It takes about five or six photographs. Then, in a light bulb moment, you realise what the artist is doing and how good these images really are....
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Exhibition: ‘Detroit 1968: Photographs by Enrico Natali’ at Joseph Bellows...
Exhibition dates: 2nd November – 21st December 2013 . The second tranche of images from the artist Enrico Natali demonstrate his command of visual space. Groups of people face away from the camera,...
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Videos: William Klein
. . William Klein: In Pictures from Tate Modern . . The Many Lives of William Klein (2012) . . LIKE ART BLART ON FACEBOOK Back to topFiled under: American, american photographers, beauty, black and...
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Exhibition: ‘Abelardo Morell: The Universe Next Door’ at the J. Paul Getty...
Exhibition dates: 1st October 1, 2013 – 5th January 2014 . The J. Paul Getty Museum puts on some amazing exhibitions, and this is no exception. For me the strength of this artist lies in his black and...
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Exhibition: ‘At the Window: The Photographer’s View’ at the J. Paul Getty...
Exhibition dates: 1st October 1, 2013 – 5th January 2014 . Another fascinating exhibition from the J. Paul Getty Museum that features classic photographs and some that I have never seen before. In my...
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Exhibition: ‘City of Abstractions: Brett Weston in New York, 1944–45′ at 1285...
Exhibition dates: 30th September 2013 – 10th January 2014 . Out of the 84 images online on eMuseum I have picked just 13 from the exhibition for this posting. While the press release is loquacious in...
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Exhibition: ‘Gordon Parks: The Making of an Argument’ at The New Orleans...
Exhibition dates: 12th September 2013 – 12th January 2014 . Another great photographer with a social conscience. Fantastic to observe the dynamics of the proof sheets and how the images were cropped...
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Exhibition: ‘Photography at NOMA’ at The New Orleans Museum of Art
Exhibition dates: 10th November 2013 – 19th January 2014 . There are some rare and beautiful photographs in this posting. I have never seen the Kertész (Leger’s Studio 1926 – 1927) with its wonderful...
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Review / Text: ‘Edward Steichen & Art Deco Fashion’ at the National Gallery...
Exhibition dates: 18th October 2013 – 2nd March 2014 . This is a sublime exhibition, teaming as it does fabulous frocks and beautiful, classical, evanescent photographs. The exhibition was in my top...
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Exhibition: ‘Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video’ at The...
Exhibition dates: 24th January – 14th May 2014 A busy time with postings on the blog over the next week with a lot of exhibitions finishing on the 18th May 2014. The posting about this artist is one...
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Exhibition / text: ‘Vivian Maier (1926-2009). A Photographic Revelation’ at...
Exhibition dates: 9th November 2013 – 1st June 2014 The next best thing The photographs of Vivian Maier. Unknown in her lifetime (nanny as secretive photographer), her negatives discovered at an...
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Exhibition: ‘Garry Winogrand’ at the National Gallery of Art, Washington
Exhibition dates: 2nd March – 8th June 2014 More photographs by Gary Winogrand. . Many thankx to the National Gallery of Art for allowing me to publish the photographs in the posting. Please click on...
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Exhibition: ‘Bill Cunningham: Facades’ at the New York Historical Society,...
Exhibition dates: 14th March – 15th June 2014 Now this is more like it! If you want fabulousness with flair, and a dash of savoir-faire; if you want architecture with fashion, history with panache,...
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