Why does Boston produce such an immense number of young artists and yet retain so few of them? This is the question that begins the call for work for yBos 1 at UMB’s Harbor Gallery, which calls itself “The first…
“Contemporary approaches to photography are much different than what was happening in Harold’s world. Harold wasn’t working in series like many contemporary artists do now. He was photographing what captured his attention.” With over five decades of dedication and thousands…
Flak Photo and Conscientious are arguably two of the most influential sites showing and discussing contemporary fine art photography online in recent years. Their respective creators/voices, Andy Adams and Jörg Colberg, got together on Thursday September 27th in Providence to…
Via Concientious, I came across an article in BagNews by Michael Shaw about James Nachtwey’s famous photos from New York on 9/11. The emphasis of the article is on the change in color correction between the 2001 and 2011 versions,…
Tim Griffin, the Editor-in-Chief of Art Forum wrote an introduction to the annual year-in-review December issue of Art Forum titled “Snapshot of 2008”. In his somewhat bland prologue that reads like the wall text of a neophyte curator’s first big…
Belgian artist David Claerbout’s first museum survey exhibitition in the US will open this Friday at MIT’s List Visual Arts Center. In an article I wrote about his work in 2004, I summarized: “In his work, David Claerbout moves between…