Word: biennials
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...turned "McSweeney's" issue 13 into a work of extraordinary depth and beauty. It culminates his efforts at moving the public's idea of comic books from consumable juvenilia to museum-worthy artworks that still retain their puerile edge. (Ware's work has appeared in both the 2002 Whitney Biennial and Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.) This will be the standard that future books must meet...
EXHIBITIONISTS: Three terrific artists at the Whitney Biennial...
Face it, you love the Whitney Biennial. You love a show that gives you, every two years, an opportunity to bemoan the state of art today, all those craven dealers, politically correct curators and jejune, salacious, hectoring artists. Well, good news: the 2004 edition of the Biennial is now open. With 108 mostly lesser-known contributors from around the U.S., it is sure to have something to make your skin crawl. But there are also those rare things, artists worth looking at. Here are three...
...Cecily Brown's inclusion in this year's Biennial proof that she has survived her own hype? Ever since she arrived in Manhattan 10 years ago from her native London, Brown, 34, has been a perennial rising star. For a while she was also something of an art babe, with spreads in Vogue and Vanity Fair that dwelt as much on her looks as her brushwork. And like any good postfeminist, she took her bows and played to that image, working in a palette heavy on girly pinks and occasionally signing her canvases "Cecily." You know, like Cher...
While the show highlights the inherent restlessness of the medium - in Craig Walsh's video Cross-Reference, 2004, distracted crowds filmed at a music festival peer through one of the gallery's fire doors - some of the best work in the Biennial is as still as a painting. Indeed, Rosemary Laing's latest suite of photographs, One Dozen Unnatural Disasters in the Australian Landscape, sits charmingly alongside a new exhibition of the colonial painter John Glover. If his A View of the Artist's House and Garden, 1835, shows how Glover tried to plant a corner of England...