Pictures at an Exhibition

Last week I went to Pier 24’s eight exhibition “Collected”. The exhibition consisted on various artists and different styles. From the entire collection I choose three different pieces which I think they got more my attention. Being the first one that I’ll talk about my third favorite, and the last one, the one I loved the most. Two of the photographs have the same artists and the same style : film photography. Robert Frank was born in Switzerland on November 9, 1924. He’s the artist of the…

culture and context is changed depending on the environment art is presented in. The purpose of art exhibitions is to show the audience an organized presentation of particular art pieces. The question raised in this chapter is whether the organization of the presentation is precise to represent each piece of work and does this representation distort the meaning of a piece. There are many ways art exhibitions are presented and displayed, from light to temperature. Exhibits can be considered a…

Cartier-Bresson becomes the first photographer to enter USSR since the beginning of the cold war. In 1955 an exhibition was held of over 400 of Cartier-Bresson’s photos at the Museum of Decorative arts in Paris, France (Scharf). From the years 1958 to 1969 Cartier-Bresson spends time doing various things such as traveling the world, taking pictures for various magazines, and attending exhibitions (“Biography”). In 1974 he discontinued his work with “Magnum Photos” and returns to drawing. From…

garments was dreamed by the doomed heroines of Remarque's novels, after the war he dressed the richest women of the Old and New Worlds. At the end of May 2017, for the first time in the UK, the London Museum of Victoria and Albert opened a large-scale exhibition - a retrospective of the heritage of the Spanish couturier: “Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion.’. The project is timed to the 100th anniversary of the opening of the first studio Balenciaga in Spanish San Sebastian and the eightieth…

work signifies the refashioning of figurative tradition by the abilities of the picture-maker, who is a woman-of-color. Her exhibition, Meaningful Fiction & the Figurative Tradition, will be displayed in the Stone Center from September 14 through November 22. In this series, one thing I noticed almost instantly was the shift in space and dimension that was due to the use of borders in many of her works. In her exhibition opening, she discusses how this kind of feature has the effect of…

research. We will collaborate with them to understand what kind of images are more interesting for the audience and use that analyses to better curation. In addition, attention will be paid to how the audience reacts to certain images during the exhibition and any trends in behavior will be noted.For the first exhibit, I’ve shortlisted the cover of the 2007 Berlin edition of the National Geographic, the December 2106 cover of “Geography and You”(a local geography publication) , the cover of…

In the late period, “The 1990s constituted a very productive period for Hockney, with a huge number of retrospectives and exhibitions around the world” (David Hockney: The Biography, 1975-2012). Specially, “Hockney arranged Polaroids as well as 35-mm prints to create photo-collages of a single subject” (web). “In 1999, a long-standing and well known fascination with new media…

his high school yearbook pictures. In one of his last pieces of work Mike Kelley ventured away from his usual recycled media and decided to recreate Kandor city from the popular comic series, Superman. Kandor and The Exploded Fortress of Solitude(1999, 2007, 2009, 2011) was exhibited in the Houser and Wirth Gallery to demonstrate some of the last pieces created by Mike Kelley. This is the galleries first exhibition completely dedicated to Mike Kelley's Kandor. The exhibition premiered on…

Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty features over 25 paintings made between 1976 and 2013, three video works and several photographs that explore culture’s complex relationship to beauty and the feminine body. The exhibition is organized by time period, demonstrating the depth of Minter’s critical examination, which predominantly focuses on fashion, beauty and celebrity culture. Pretty/Dirty illustrates Minter’s evolution from a young critic, documenting domestic life, to an established media savvy…

The Eyes of the Ocean The sea, a luminous gray, spills across the bottom of the picture. The brooding sky, like an echo of the sea, spreads itself across the top portion of the photograph. Between the two of them, a town huddles in shadow. The viewer finds herself unable to look away from the photograph. There seems to be some dark truth in it. “Invisible Borders,” a color photograph by Mae Kelley, was taken from a boat about a mile off shore. The perspective captures a portion of the town that…