Toronto-based performance sculptress Faye Mullen puts a twist on journalistic portraiture by photographing fellow artists next to an equal weight of objects of their choosing. Project I Am an Artist and I Weigh plays on words, asking: What determines the importance, the impact, “the weight” of an artist? Can an artist’s creative output be measured in physical mass? One artist’s weight is a small tower of instruments and a typewriter. Another, perhaps a performance artist, measures a stack of mixed chairs. Others are more mysterious than direct: a mound of socks, bags of milk. Flip through these images enough and the documentary heaps and piles of actual and representational tools of art become sculptures themselves. Check out the artists and their “weights” in our gallery.
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Voyeurism and nostalgia, two great pastimes of the internet age, come together in this set of vintage passport photos of famous artists, writers, musicians, and dancers. Though the U.S. State Department now decrees that “photographs should be taken in normal street attire, without a hat or headgear that obscures the hair or hairline,” Isadora Duncan and Mary Cassatt would have pooh-poohed those ridiculous rules. After all, one must hold a sense of decorum whilst engaging in travel abroad.
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New York mag art critic Jerry Saltz, he of the gender parity crusade at MoMA and Glenn Beck challenge, profiles seven female artists in this week’s issue. Saltz points out that 36 percent of New York gallery solo shows are featuring women this fall, up from 17 percent in 2005, and highlights a cross-section of “gender-bending” work by women, including a full-scale museum show by multimedia artist Roni Horn at The Whitney. Read More »
