Tag Archives: Art
Mad About MAD
Just finished reviewing a Sylvia Hyman show for Nashville Scene. Hyman is a fine art ceramicist who specializes in trompe l’oeil sculpture. Hyman creates stoneware baskets that seem to be made of wood. She fashions letter envelopes out of porcelain complete with postmarked Andy Warhol stamps. Our favorite of Hyman’s objets d’art are her MAD [...]
The Other King of Pop Bites the Sucker
Richard Hamilton died this Thursday. If you didn’t know who Richard Hamilton was, trust me, you know who Richard Hamilton was. Here is an obit that argues that Hamilton was the most influential British artist of the 20th century. I immediately thought, “Well what about Bacon??!?”. The answer to that and more after the running [...]
Taboo You
Having been reading up on the announcement of Frieze Magazine’s 2010 Writer’s Prize, we came across this great article about child nudity in art. Frieze is a UK publication and there are some differences between American and UK law, but attitudes are similar and this enlightening piece explores the fine line between exploitation and censorship. [...]
Forever in Blue Jeans
This just in… So it seems that it sometimes takes a number of arty types to explain something as fundamentally proletariat as humble, timeless blue jeans. I’d love to go off on this subject, but I couldn’t do a better job than The Vancouver Sun: Workaday staple and fashion favourite, blue jeans have conquered the [...]
