Jeannette Montgomery Barron's grid of black-and-white portraits of art stars on the rise includes Cindy Sherman, Jenny Holzer, and Brice Marden Amy Arbuss and Janette Beckman similarly catch Madonna and Run-DMC early in their careers.
Even when you think he's absent, as in the oddly stormy portraits of art world luminaries posing naked, he chaperones and stage-manages, clothed, from the pictures' shadowy borders.
There, from memory, she would create portraits of art dealers, collectors and enthusiasts solely in duct tape on the cinder block, exposed brick and broken, sheet-rocked walls of her corner storefront.
With a new gift as its centerpiece called "Rush" — 37 life-size painted aluminum cutout portraits of art-world figures in the 1960s and '70s — this display of Katz's prints, aluminum cutouts and illustrated books is the first such retrospective in the United States.
EXHIBITIONS -- "Portrait of the Art World: A Century of ARTnews Photographs," centennial celebration of the New York arts journal, portraits of 100 American artists from the last century, New-York Historical Society.
His portrait of the art world appears to fill the space in his fiction usually occupied by sex, and the art market works much like the sex market, with winners and losers.
Through Jan . 5 "Portrait of the Art World: A Century of ARTnews Photographs," celebrating the centenary of the oldest and largest American art magazine, with 100 photographic portraits of artists.
Having come to New York from San Francisco in 1984 to pursue his art career, he began to draw notice with his genial gadfly presence and irreverent video portrait of the art world.
Through Jan . 5 "The Games We Played: Victorian Games From the Liman Collection," board games from the early 20th century, and "Portrait of the Art World: A Century of ARTnews Photographs," celebrating the centenary of the oldest and largest American art magazine, with 100 photographic portraits of artists.
