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The Tenor of Julius Shulman
Without photos, even a perfect work of architecture can feel incomplete: it's a mute poet, a star without her close-up. Visual Acoustics, a new documentary about the late Julius Shulman, shows how one photographer not only captured and popularized but also helped create American modernism over the course of his 70-year career.Read More
National Healing
Last night's National Arts Awards decorated a wide range of the creative world's heavy hitters. Ed Ruscha, Salman Rushdie, Robert Redford, and arts patrons Sidney Harman and Bank of America's Anne Finucane got kudos for their contributions to a sector of American life that perhaps doesn't (outside New York, at least) always get the official recognition it deserves. Presenters at the 14th annual ceremony, organized by advocacy group Americans for the Arts, included Ken Burns, Nancy Pelosi, and New Museum director Lisa Philips.Read More
Stealing the Show: Albert Barnes
The soundtrack of the new, muckraking art-world documentary The Art of the Steal, which screens tonight at the New York Film Festival, is laced with plot-thickening compositions by Philip Glass. The real background noise, though, is the clamor of barbarians at the gates.Read More
Best in the Studio: The Art of Sam Francis
In The Painter Sam Francis, a documentary that opens today at Anthology Film Archives, there's footage of this major Abstract Expressionist at work in his studio and at rest in his backyard. Painting by instinct, seemingly pouring himself onto the canvas, Francis is much more interesting (not to mention likeable) in the studio.Read More
Con Artist: The Story of Mark Kostabi
Mark Kostabi is a whole bunch of things — above all, perhaps, a cautionary tale. Celebrated in the 1980’s as Warhol’s heir apparent (or bastard child, take your pick) he gobbled up fame and money for production line paintings that he was happy to call “trash." While his shamelessness made plenty of people squirm, many saw Kostabi as a vivid, ballsy art-world critic. “Paintings are doorways into collectors’ homes” was one of his catch phrases, and he neatly declared that “modern art is a con, and I’m the world’s greatest con artist.”Or
Mixed Media, 212 x 66 inches, Courtesy the artist.
Artist Kirstine Roepstorff was born and trained in Denmark, but lives and works in Berli
