1 April 2012
“The young aspiring artists studying at Goldsmiths College in London during the late 1980s, colloquially known as the ‘YBAs’ (young British artists), were defined by this era in which they studied and, for most of them, had a direct impact on their career.”
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1 April 2012
“I come from a film generation and I am committed to black and white photography. I’m really the last generation who’s grown up with black and white; who is steeped in that media and will continue in that media. What you’re seeing is the end of the black and white film photography.” – Roger Ballen.
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1 April 2012
“Architects, sculptors, painters – we all must return to craftsmanship! For there is no such thing as ‘art by profession’. There is no essential difference between the artist and the artisan. The artist is an exalted artisan. This is the original source of creative design.”
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1 April 2012
The Sony World Photography Awards offers visitors an extraordinary range of contemporary photography, covering a wide variety of subjects…
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1 April 2012
“Los Carpinteros have taken their sacrifice of individual identity even further by refusing to use their own names in their work and they took their name (the carpenters) as both a rejection of individual authorship and as a recognition of the skilled craftsmanship that is disintegrating from both contemporary art and design”
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1 April 2012
Exploring the distinctively rich and diverse tradition of photography in Mexico from the 1920s to the present, Photography In Mexico showcases Mexican photographers as well as major American and European artists who found Mexico to be a place of great artistic inspiration…
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1 April 2012
Born in Cork, Ireland, David Creedon is best described as a conceptual documentary photographer. In his latest series, Behind Open Doors, Creedon spent six weeks in Havana studying the complex and dynamic relationships of families…
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1 February 2012
“As an artist whose early work has been so concerned with the mediation of contemporary gender and identity politics through print and celluloid media, Cindy Sherman’s 21st century works have made the natural progression into probing the effect on identity.”
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1 February 2012
“We try to explore the big shifts in British Design but also the personal relationships and the outstanding objects. There are many surprising collaborations and a number of the designers we interviewed acknowledged the influence of others on their work.” – Ghislaine Wood, the V&A’s specialist in 20th century art and design
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1 February 2012
“In New York the artists and cultural practitioners involved in ACT UP (AID S Coalition to Unleash Power) brought all their theoretical and aesthetic acumen to bear on the group’s activities, changing the look and feel of street protest as a result.” – Helen Molesworth, Chief Curator of the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
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1 February 2012
“Technology has enabled artists to expand their oeuvres, to produce novel, exciting works that they previously were incapable of, yet there is still a resistance to this change and Engberg says that many of the works selected for the exhibition.”
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1 February 2012
Showcasing over 100 photographers whose work documents the evolution of photography from the 1850s to the present day, Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection creates distinct “conversations” between images by individual artists and across a wide range of themes…
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