Bonne Année : Rick Tulka
By matthew rose | December 31, 2009 | 1 Comment
Rick Tulka, Paris-based artist and illustrator best known for his on-the-spot sketches of flâneurs burning daylight and washing back kirs at Le Select, the famed café on Boulevard Montparnasse, offers a self-portrait greeting for 2010. Yes, that was him, penciling in your double chin last Tuesday! Only kidding. Bonne Année…
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Shepard Fairey Does Venice, Silvio
By matthew rose | December 24, 2009 | 2 Comments
Shepard Fairey, who rose to fame and made his mark with his wildly successful and now controversial Obama campaign poster, has left his mark here in Venice as well. During the June international art orgy known as the Venice Biennale, Fairey was brought to a tiny bar in the San Polo quarter near the Rialto [...]
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(Picture) Postcard From Paris
By matthew rose | November 29, 2009 | 0 Comments
After the crowds at the FIAC in Paris subside, the gathering at Paris Photo, held in the Carrousel du Louvre, creates a different kind of picture show. Intimate and targeted to serious collectors of photography, only 89 galleries, and 13 publishers including book dealers and other image merchants appear fresh and pressed in the well-appointed [...]
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Letter From Paris: The FIAC – The Hunger, The Hype & The Hysteria
By matthew rose | October 31, 2009 | 0 Comments
Perhaps the perfect metaphor for the contemporary art fair is the media-fattened story of the Balloon Boy (in the US), which swept across the airwaves on a gust of excitement only to be lanced by the truth. It was for the money, after all, and the 10 year-old boy (Little Falcon) supposedly trapped in the [...]
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Gilbert and George on politics and Union Jacks
By matthew rose | July 26, 2009 | 2 Comments
In 2007, Gilbert & George mounted a massive retrospective at the Tate Modern that included “Mullah.” The tremendous work (2.42 x 2.02m) from 1980, featured a stone-faced icon seemingly cast from the Magic Forest. Composed of photographs of cut planks of wood (knots for eyes, nose and mouth) and collaged together in Gilbert & [...]
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10 Questions For Peter Schuyff
By matthew rose | June 26, 2009 | 1 Comment
10 Questions For Peter Schuyff, after a studio visit in Amsterdamn. Painting, Music and life in the land of the Dutch Masters.
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John Cage’s Shoes–Robert Storr speaks in Paris
By matthew rose | April 20, 2009 | 10 Comments
I think it was the 13th of August, 1992, that artist and neighbor Ray Johnson called me with the news that John Cage was dead. I know it was early in the morning, and not the day he died, the 12th, because when I went outside to get a coffee and a New York Times, [...]
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Herman James : The Iceberg Cometh
By matthew rose | April 7, 2009 | 1 Comment
I’m sorry to report that the end of the world will be broadcast on television. We will sit at home and watch as images are beamed into our living rooms, bedrooms, and banks of screens in sports bars. We’ll be eating popcorn, making love and getting drunk while trying to pick off someone from the [...]
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Assistant: Where are They now? Part 4
By matthew rose | January 8, 2007 | 1 Comment
[This is part 4 of a multi-part article. To begin at the beginning, go to Part 1.]
Post apprenticeship experiences
If the master influences the young assistant, it is often via an aesthetic process, shared subject matter or an appetite for literature, science and art history, what Meyer called “alchemy.” Meyer’s first big break came in [...]
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Assistant:Pruitt-Early, part 3
By matthew rose | | 1 Comment
[This is part 3 of a multi-part article. To begin at the beginning, go to Part 1.]
Hatching plans
Jack Early and Rob Pruitt met in their early 20s while studying art at the Corcoran School in Washington, D.C. The two quickly hatched plans to hit it big in the other capital – New York City. [...]
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