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...clouds are clearly defined and individual wave crests reflect the sun at different but interlacing angles. Displayed together so that the horizons all line up perfectly, the Seascapes are haunting in their simple, minimalist beauty. With a title like "End of Time," there is no doubt that this artist and this exhibition take themselves very seriously?but given the show's transcendent power, the seeming self-importance is not just well placed, it may even be understated...
...best anthology of the year only promises to get better as the biannual book-sized series continues to nurture some of the medium's most interesting young talent. The series perfectly balances the more avante garde works of an artist like Anders Nilsen whose faceless characters pose against photographic backgrounds while musing on the nature of reality, with more straightforward work like Andrice Arp's delightful adaptation of Japanese folktales. Where most anthologies have, at best, a 50/50 hit/miss ratio, Mome manages to be all-hit, don't miss...
...like a dreamscape, and the picture's title, A Carnival Evening, just adds to the enigma. The atmospheric, accomplished work could have been painted yesterday. In fact it's dated 1886, and was one of the first works shown in public by French painter Henri Rousseau (1844-1910). The artist's flat, hard-edged style and singular imagination owed nothing to anybody. His pictures could be ordinary or outrageous: he depicted the bourgeoisie wearing their Sunday best and he painted mysterious women naked in jungles. The odd and the commonplace co-existed inside his head: he never went nearer...
...back then, Beck looked cocky and stupid, wearing his cowboy boots and holding a ghetto blaster. There was a sense that we were supposed to be worried for him. He wasn’t in on the conspiracy. Now he’s an established artist, and a Scientologist. He’s on the inside of something, he’s got faith...
While some courses strive to limit students to a single subject, VES 124r, “The Narrative in Painting,” is a blank canvas. The class is taught by Visiting Professor Maureen Gallace, a working artist who actually commutes from New York on a weekly basis to teach the course...