Yale lecturer publishes ‘fun’ photos Chantal Fernandez Yale Daily News October 20, 2009
The body of work in “Fun and Games” spans the last 10 years, since Kereszi’s time as a graduate student at the Yale School of Art, and has evolved into a distinct perspective on escapism in its many forms. Though there are no people in her photographs, a human presence is made clear in the peculiar spaces of haunted houses, motels, fairs and other slightly tawdry entertainment venues.
-Tanya
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2 articles on: “Through the Architect’s Eye — New Haven & the World”
On view in the atrium of New Haven’s City Hall until Oct. 23.
Latino architects show off shutter skills New Haven Register October 17, 2009 – Pamela McLoughlin
NEW HAVEN — The first floor of City Hall has never been as architecturally sound as it is right now.
Photographic works of 40 architects from some 20 Latin American countries who have visited, worked or are working in the city are on display until Friday as part of Arte Inc.’s citywide celebration of Hispanic heritage. October is Hispanic Heritage month.
Exhibit Shows View From Architects’ Eyes Allan Appel | October 9, 2009 New Haven Independent
If photography is the art of light, what happens when architects, who trade in solid masses, pick up the camera?
The result: a vision of the world and the city filled with design and drama.
-Tanya
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Annie Leibovitz, the highest-paid photographer in the world, is in a six-week race to raise $24million (£14.2 million) or risk losing her homes and the rights to her entire body of work.
-Charlie
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Walker Art Center
Photos, sculpture, paintings, architectural models, videos and other sorts of art responding to contemporary suburbia by some 30 artists, architects and designers make up “Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes” at the Yale School of Architecture. An eclectic but altogether stimulating exhibition, it has a clear if slightly condescending message: it is O.K. to live in suburbia. Phew.
From Malls to Homes to Cars, the Transitioning of Suburbia Benjamin Gennochio NYT 4/16/09
“Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes,” Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, through May 10. (203) 432-2288 or architecture.yale.edu.
-Chris
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Viewing Journalism as a Work of Art NOAM COHEN New York Times March 23, 2009
Copyright lawyers have been arguing over Shepard Fairey’s appropriation of a news photograph of Barack Obama for his “Hope” campaign poster and whether it constitutes “fair use.” But no one has disputed that it is a work of art.
But what about the photograph on which the poster is based? Taken by Mannie Garcia while on assignment for The Associated Press in 2006, the picture is now on sale at a Chelsea gallery in a limited edition of 200. The prints are going for $1,200 apiece, and at least one has been purchased by a fine-arts museum.
Photo from from “Truthdig Apr 28, 2006
-Tanya
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Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lecture: “The Large Renaissance Print: Visual Culture and Display”
Thursday, 20, 5:30 PM
This lecture will be presented by Michael Bury, Reader Emeritus in History of Art, University of Edinburgh.
Bury has worked on various aspects of Italian painting, sculpture, and architecture, from the fifteenth through the seventeenth century. His lecture coincides with the Yale University Art Gallery’s special exhibition, “Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian.”
“Grand Scale: Monumental Prints in the Age of Dürer and Titian” assembles a diverse group of European prints from the late fifteenth to the early seventeenth century that share one common characteristic: uncommon scale.
Andrew Carnduff Ritchie Lectures
The Ritchie Lectures are jointly sponsored by the Yale Center for British Art and the Yale University Art Gallery and were established to honor the memory of Andrew Carnduff Ritchie, director of the Yale University Art Gallery from 1957 to 1971. The Ritchie Lectures are offered annually and bring to the University distinguished members of the international visual arts community. These lectures are free and open to the public, honoring Ritchie’s belief that the art museum serves as a gathering place for all members of the community.
Gallery Talk: “Using Confusion”
Tuesday 18, 4:00 PM
This gallery talk will be presented by Philip Pisciotta, photographer and lecturer, Yale School of Art. This gallery talk is in conjunction with the exhibition “First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography.”
Gallery Talk: “In the Footsteps of the Buddha: Buddhist Art at Yale”
Wednesday 19, 12:20 PM
This gallery talk will be presented by David Ake Sensabaugh, the Ruth and Bruce Dayton Curator of Asian Art, Yale University Art Gallery.
Furniture Study Tour
Friday, 21, 12:00-1:00 PM
The American Decorative Arts Furniture Study is a working library of American furniture and wooden objects, housing approximately one thousand works from the Gallery’s collection. Ranging from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, this selection of chests, tables, chairs, desks, clocks, cupboards, looking glasses, and woodturnings highlights important stylistic developments in American craftsmanship and design.
Weekly tours of the Furniture Study will be given by curators from the Department of American Decorative Arts. No advanced registration required, but space is limited. Meet at the information desk at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Masterpiece Tours: Guided Tours by Museum Docents
Saturday 22, 1:30 PM
Sunday 23, 1:30 PM
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Free and open to the public.
1111 Chapel Street (at York Street), 203.432.0600
http://artgallery.yale.edu
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Yale University Art Gallery, The Allan Chasanoff, b.a. 1961, Photography Collection. © 2008 Karin Rosenthal, courtesy of the artist
Viewers of “First Doubt” will have to suspend their knowledge of Photoshop, putting aside all those e-mailed images of Sarah Palin and Barack Obama on “Dancing with the Stars” and recall that the images in Chasanoff’s collection are all what he called “straight” images — direct depictions of reality.
Some of the photographers here, like Lee Friedlander and Nicholas Nixon, have made an entire career out of these optical hoaxes. But most of the artists here simply recognized that the privileged position photography has with reality was always a ruse.
It is what it is. Mostly. ‘First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography?’ at Yale Tracey O’Shaughnessy
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“‘…We’re on the verge of one of great artistic extinctions in history,’ [Richard Benson] says. ‘Don’t get me wrong. People will continue to make etchings, engravings and other kinds of prints. But increasingly they’re going to be seen as antiquarian processes — of interest mainly to scholars, connoisseurs and other pointy-headed types. Printmaking as it’s been practiced for the past 500 years — and in the case of photography, for the past 150-plus years — is on its last legs….
“’…On the one hand, photographs are everywhere — on billboards, in books and magazines, all over the galleries and museums. On the other hand, how many of the people who took those photographs also printed them? How many were even printed in a darkroom? I’ll tell you how many: almost none.’”
Photographer’s opus embraces art of printing Bill Van Siclen
Providence Journal November 2, 2008
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The Printed Picture Richard Benson
MoMA features Eli Raphael Shapiro Yale Daily News November 5, 2008
“NEW YORK — As the sun shines through the tall glass windows onto the third floor of the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan, museum-goers stand in the special photography exhibit, pointing and conferring in hushed tones. At ‘The Printed Picture,’ the viewers, young and old, are all students.
“The exhibit was created by Richard Benson, the former dean of the Yale School of Art and current adjunct professor of photography, and is complimented by the MoMA’s publication of his book of the same name. It explores the history of printing and photography, emphasizing their importance in modern culture.”
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Erving, MA 2006 by John Lehr
Backstage: John Lehr Nicolas Niarchos Yale Daily News October 24, 2008
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Take a new look at the exhibition “First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography” by attending one of this week’s gallery talks
Gallery Talk: “The Troubled Eye: A Conversation”
Tuesday 14, 4:00 PM
This gallery talk will be presented by Richard Benson, professor and former Dean, Yale School of Art; Allan Chasanoff, collector; and Joshua Chuang, Assistant Curator of Photographs. This gallery talk is in conjunction with the exhibition “First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography.”
Gallery Talk: “Reassessing Renoir”
Wednesday 15, 12:20 PM
This gallery talk will be presented by Susan Greenberg Fisher, the Horace W. Goldsmith Associate Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Yale University Art Gallery.
Lecture: “Magical Nominalism: Photography and the Reenchantment of the World”
Thursday 16, 12:20 PM
This lecture will be presented by Martin Jay, the Sidney Hellman Ehrman Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley. This lecture is in conjunction with the exhibition “First Doubt: Optical Confusion in Modern Photography.”
Furniture Study Tour
Friday, 17
12:00-1:00 PM
The American Decorative Arts Furniture Study is a working library of American furniture and wooden objects, housing approximately one thousand works from the Gallery’s collection. Ranging from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, this selection of chests, tables, chairs, desks, clocks, cupboards, looking glasses, and woodturnings highlights important stylistic developments in American craftsmanship and design.
Weekly tours of the Furniture Study will be given by curators from the Department of American Decorative Arts. No advanced registration required, but space is limited. Meet at the information desk at the Yale University Art Gallery.
Angles on Art: Gallery Tours by Undergraduates
Friday 17, 3:00 PM
“Modern Art and the Modern Portrait”
Sarah Naftallis, TC ‘09
Saturday 18, 3:00 PM
“Imagining the Buddha”
Spencer Hayden, PC ‘09
Sunday 19, 3:00 PM
“Art vs. Artifact”
Elizabeth Cronson, SY ‘09
Sunday 19, 4:30 PM
“The Life of the Painting: Italian Art from 1200 to 1600″
Diana Mellon, CC’09
Masterpiece Tours: Guided Tours by Museum Docents
Saturday 18, 1:30 PM
Sunday 19, 1:30 PM
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Free and open to the public.
1111 Chapel Street (at York Street), 203.432.0600
http://artgallery.yale.edu
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Hewitt’s art combines personal artifacts like family photos with more traditional found items to explore the intersection of personal memory and history. A graduate of Cooper Union and the Yale M.F.A. program, she approaches her career with a steadiness that impresses many observers. “What she’s dealing with as a subject matter has resonance beyond the now,” says Naomi Beckwith, a curator at the Studio Museum. Where does she see Hewitt’s work in 2048? “Well out of my price range.”
Who’s Who, 2048 New York Magazine 9/28/08
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Dark Skate/Backyard, Courtesy DCKT Contemporary
Lia Halloran is not your typical skater girl. The daughter of a scientist, she was featured in Thrasher magazine at age 16, and went on to get an M.F.A. from Yale University’s department of painting and printmaking. These cosmic forces collided when she received a grant to study the night sky with scientists in Chile in 2000.
Lia Halloran, “Dark Skate” Time Out New York Sept 4-10, 2008
Check out some of Halloran’s work at DCKT Contemporary here.
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‘Bathroom’ by Reka Reisinger (HANDOUT/ August 19, 2008)
Photographer Reka Reisinger opens a show tonight from 6 to 8 at the monthly Creative Cocktail Hour at Real Art Ways in Hartford.
Her show, “Cutouts,” has 12 images meant to show the lifeless synthetic quality of computer generated art. Cardboard cutouts of her image are put in familiar settings such as a vacation, a family portrait and a birthday.
Reisinger is from Budapest, Hungary, and a graduate of the Yale University School of Art. She lives in New York City.
Reka Reisinger: A Showing of Lifeless Art Donna Larcen Hartford Courant 8/21/08
More info here. And visit Reka’s official Site here.
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A camera obscura is the age-old principle behind that physics-class favorite, the pinhole camera. Let light from a small opening enter a dark space, and an inverted image of what’s on the other side of the opening will be projected within.
Camera obscura pictures make up half of the 36 images in “Behind the Seen: The Photographs of Abelardo Morell,” which runs at the Yale University Art Gallery through Aug. 10. The exhibition is in the way of a homecoming. Morell, who teaches at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, has a master of fine arts degree from Yale. He’ll be artist in residence there this academic year.
Morell’s photos balance austerity and playfullness Mark Feeney Boston Globe 6/20/08
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