Category Archives: Art

Comic Geniuses

Wed 12 Jun 200207:24 PM

As it nears its first birthday, The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art is holding an Art Festival on Sun 23 Jun in New York. The list of featured attendees is long and diverse, and headlined by the legendary Jules Feiffer.

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Painted from Random Access Memory

Fri 31 May 200207:17 PM

These fine art pieces from digital realist Bert Monroy aren’t exactly my taste, but they’re technical marvels at least. Monroy creates them entirely with Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop, and without using scans of any kind — which is an amazing if somewhat pointless feat.

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Art Attack

Mon 20 May 200203:19 PM

“Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting” is one of the last shows that will hang in the current MoMA space before it closes this week for a complete rebuild. If you can catch it between now and tomorrow when it ends, it’ll be worth nearly every moment of your time (make sure to rent the audio tour too). I found the first floor of the show to be a mixed bag, but I left the second floor with a new appreciation of Richter as one of the giants of painting.I had a much less uniform reaction to the Whitney 2002 Biennial, which goes to great pains to present a multiplicity of art world snapshots, with many painful results. I’d say fully one half of the show was dismissable, but there were a few gems in there, notably Jim Campbell’s “Fifth Avenue Cutaway #1.”

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Woof

Fri 26 Apr 200209:55 PM

Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Topdog/Underdog,” another Pulitzer Prize-winner, is excellent, a bracing two-person play starring the amazing Jeffrey Wright and the surprisingly good Mos Def. I saw it last night at the Ambassador Theater (Paul Newman was in the audience too!) and was riveted to my seat.

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Book Learnin’

Thu 18 Apr 200204:37 PM

“The Russian Avant-Garde Book” is an exhibit on display right now at the Museum of Modern Art, and also a Web site, exceptionally well-designed by a friend of mine at For Office Use Only.

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Don’t Myth It

Fri 12 Apr 200207:54 PM

Should museums — especially art museums — be putting on exhibits as brazenly commercial as “Star Wars: The Magic of Myth”? Probably not, but I confess to feeling a strong pull towards the Brooklyn Museum of Art to see it. To even things out, I’ll make a trip to see the Whitney Biennial first and get a good dose of ‘real art.’ Kinda the way you’d drink a Diet Coke to balance out a Big Mac.

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Thrillustrations

Mon 11 Mar 200209:34 PM

Harald Belker has done some amazing illustration work. Have a look at his Web site to get a good look at his portfolio, including work for the upcoming “Spider-Man” movie, which is looking better and better.

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See the World

Sat 23 Feb 200206:32 PM

David Levine: “This is a virtual online gallery I’ve created to display and share the best items in my collection of 1920s and 1930s travel-related ephemera.” There’s some really beautiful stuff available here, including terrific pieces from masters such as Herbert Matter and Piet Zwart. This one is probably my favorite.

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Keep Stills

Wed 30 Jan 200211:18 PM

The Museum of Modern Art is taking away its Film Stills Archive. Articles on the subject from New York Newsday, The Village Voice and Time. Plus an audio interview with Mary Corliss, the collection’s longtime caretaker who was laid-off by the museum management.

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Atari Forever

Tue 29 Jan 200212:19 AM

Atari is going to live forever. At least in the hearts and minds of Eighties kids who continue to fetishize everything associated with that videogame pioneer. Case in point: these lovely and sometimes brilliantly optimistic conceptual drawings from Atari’s arcade division. I defy anyone who attended high school at any time during the Eighties to remain unimpressed by them. Jeez, I sound so old.

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