Opens Thurs, Apr 19, 6-8p:
Niki de Saint Phalle
Vicky David Gallery, 522 W23rd St., NYC
an exhibition of artworks by the French-American sculptor, painter and filmmaker Niki de Saint Phalle, a key figure of the New Realism movement. Fascinated with primitive arts and legendary myths, she reinvests them by giving them a raw but poetic tone. Nature and animal kingdom are omnipresent in her work. - thru June 30
Opens Thurs, Apr 12, 6-8p:
Audrey Flack: Sculpture, 1989–2012
Gary Snyder Gallery, 529 W20th St., NYC (10th Floor)
an exhibition of sculptures and drawings. Twenty of Flack’s bronze and fiberglass figures will be on view, offering a retrospective view of Flack’s work since 1989. Best known as a Hyperrealist painter, Flack turned away from painting in 1985. Since then, however, she has created a remarkable body of sculpture focused on reimagining archetypal and mythical images of women. - thru May 19
Cindy Sherman : “Doll Clothes” (1975)
Super-8 black and white filmCindy Sherman’s super-8 film, “Doll Clothes”, included in MoMA’s retrospective opening today, has not been seen since 1975, the year it was made.
“Her work has in some ways presaged the media age that we live in now and also absolutely responds to it. A number of younger artists are very much indebted to Sherman in their exploration of not just identity but also the nature of representation. Now we all take it for granted that a photograph can be Photoshopped. We live in the era of YouTube fame and reality-TV shows and makeovers, where you can be anything you want to be any minute of the day, and artists are responding to that. Cindy was one of the first to explore the idea of the malleability or fluidity of identity.” -Eva Respini, MoMA photography curator“I think I was part of a movement, a generation, and maybe the most popular one of that movement at the time, but it probably would have happened without me. The art world was ready for something new, something beyond painting. A group of mostly women happened to be the ones to sort of take that on, partly because they felt excluded from the rest of the [male] art world, and thought, ‘Nobody is playing with photography. Let’s take that as our tool.’” - Cindy Sherman
(Source: overheardinnewyork.com)
NYU Steinhardt’s Visual Culture: Costume Studies graduate program will present an exhibition of contemporary fashion designs entitled Imprint (NYC): The Evolution of Motifs in Fashion opening January 12. The exhibition will explore the critical history, potent symbolism, and iconic contemporary use of popular motifs in fashion.
Polka-dots, stripes, camouflage, novelty/conversational prints, houndstooth, plaid, animal prints, and “digital rococo” will all be represented in Imprint (NYC) by current and emerging designers from the New York metropolitan area including Thom Browne, Diane von Furstenberg, Marc Jacobs, Proenza Schouler, Jeremy Scott, Stephen Sprouse, and Jason Wu, among others.
Imprint (NYC) is curated by graduate students from the Visual Culture: Costume Studies program under the direction of Shannon Price, associate research curator at the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. A fully illustrated online catalogue with essays by the curators will accompany the exhibition.
Rosenberg Gallery
Opening Reception: January 12, 6-8pm
On view through February 4.
Gallery hours: Wed. through Sat., 2-8pm; Sun. noon-6 pmAn exhibition symposium will be held Wed., Jan. 25 from 6 to 8 p.m. (preceded by a reception at 5 p.m.).
NYU’s Barney Building, 34 Stuyvesant St. (between 3rd and 2nd Avenues).
Subways: 6/Astor Place or R/8th Street.
The exhibition is free and open to the public.For additional information, contact Fernan González at: imprintnyc@gmail.com.
The field of costume studies is one of the most exciting areas of current visual arts research. Since 1979, the NYU Steinhardt M.A. program in Visual Culture: Costume Studies has focused on the history of costume and textiles in its broadest aesthetic and cultural context. It is the first curriculum in the United States to educate specialists in this field.
y’all this is my future graduate program and i’m so excited because this is the first time i think i’ve heard about them actually curating a show
i hope this trend continues with me in charge next time
One of the best things about the end-of-the-year recaps and articles on fashion exhibitions (like “Museums Get Fashionable” in WWD) is that we get a preview on what is coming in 2012. Yet there is one simply amazing upcoming exhibition that is missing from all of these articles. In fact, I haven’t seen it on anyone’s radar despite the fact that it’s on an artist whose work is so fertile for the study of fashion and the body.
“Francesca Woodman” will be on display at the Guggenheim Museum in NYC from March 16–June 13, 2012. The exhibition, featuring over a 100 photographs, many of which have never been published is currently on view at SFMOMA.
I investigated Woodman’s work for my MA thesis on camouflage as she often played with themes of self-preservation, deception, transgression, death/rebirth and form-shifting. Her body of work was so perceptive, precocious and ahead of her time that her suicide at age 22 in 1981 leaves us all thinking “if only…”
Above: Self-Deceit #1 by Francesca Woodman, gelatine silver print, 1978
The Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University announces it is convening an NEH Summer Institute from July 9-28, 2012, entitled “Re-envisioning American Art History: Asian American Art, Research, and Teaching.” The Summer Institute for twenty-five college and university teachers will deepen participants’ understanding of pivotal developments and critical issues in Asian American art history and visual culture studies, while providing access to specialized archives and collections that will enhance their research and teaching in the humanities.
Summer Institute faculty will include nationally prominent experts in the fields of art history, history, Asian American Studies, art education, curatorial and museum work, and library and information science. The Institute will cover key periods in Asian American art history beginning in the last century and continuing through the present, focusing upon important artists and art historical moments as well as the intersection of Asian American visual cultures, diaspora, and transnationalism. Participating core faculty and lecturers will lead seminars and special talks at A/P/A Institute, at NYU’s Fales Library & Special Collections, and at selected archives, museums, and artists’ studios throughout New York City.
For more information on the Summer Institute and how to apply, please visit:http://www.apa.nyu.edu/arts_research/NEH/
OMFG THIS FACULTY LIST
ACADEMIC BONER RN TBQH
New York Mag., 1994Back then, all the drag queens at Lucky Cheng’s were Asian. One described her style as very different from American drag queens—not Brady Bunch, but futuristic Asian sci-fi goddess.
New Yorker, 1994
YES, thesis material right here
i just found this amazing blog for updates on nyc art openings and such: http://nycartscene.tumblr.com. THIS IS THE TUMBLR BLOG I’VE BEEN LOOKING FOR MY WHOLE TUMBLR LIFE
no for real i want your job dr. valerie steele (speaking of, how did i not know she had a ph.d.???)
