AUCTIONS AND ANTIQUES Amidst much concern regarding the direction of art markets, New York's auction houses soldier on.
Since his student days at CAFA in the 1970s, there has been a sea change in the scope and direction of art education.
Whether or not by intention, he is helping propel fashion photographs in the direction of art and in the process creating an alluring hybrid, one that sometimes supports an aesthetics of glamour and just as often parodies it.
It is a carefully made artifact that aspires in the direction of art — as is all writing, even a memoir or an essay, which purports to be telling the truth.
LITURGY "Aesthethica" (Thrill Jockey) Liturgy, from Brooklyn, bends the parameters of black metal, with its tremolo guitar frenzies and the astonishing drum barrages of Greg Fox, in the direction of art-rock minimalism: staying at full throttle until motion and stasis are one and the same, with screamed vocals as just part of the texture.
There is a delicate balance in entertainment that has long skewed in the direction of art.
It's impossible to miss the daring behind each, or the impact these artists made on the history and direction of art.
Throughout decades of wondering, wishing, and hoping that the direction of art would change, that we would begin to see work that touched us on a human level, that a sense of integrity would emerge, we did not imagine that we would ever experience the sort of coming together, the kind camaraderie that was experienced at The Representational Art Conference last week in Ventura.
"A large number of disconnected and discontented artists, gallerists, and others have taken matters into their own hands, changing the directions of art, its structures, and maybe its internal values".
"Every year we make new pieces, new productions," said Elisabeth Millqvist, Wanas's artistic director, who, with her husband, Mattias Givell, assumed direction of Wanas' arts foundation last year.
