Marcia Marcus, the first woman to stage a Happening, created self - portraits, portraits and group
portraits featuring artists, writers, family, friends and acquaintances to shed light on the shifting roles people embody.
Known for her explicit male nudes that quote and subvert the art historical tradition of male gaze onto female body, in
her portraits feature artists, musicians and writers of both genders, dressed and naked, representing a pantheon of significant cultural figures.
Several of
the portraits feature the artist herself as a bride.
Not exact matches
Hip Mama magazine opted to
feature a self -
portrait by Barcelona - based
artist Ana Alvarez - Errecalde on the cover of its May issue.
Featuring a cubist
portrait by iconic American graphic
artist / illustrator Charles S. Anderson.
CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER is a documentary
portrait of
artists, writers, and collectors who remain steadfastly loyal to the typewriter as a tool and muse,
featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough, Sam Shepard, and others.
The
feature - length making - of doc «Luck, Trust & Ketchup» combines behind - the - scenes footage with on - set interviews of the cast and crew, as well as Carver's widow, Tess Gallagher, and
portrait artist Don Bachardy.
Winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award (U.S. Dramatic) and actress / writer / director Lake Bell's debut
feature, In A World is the sassy
portrait of the unsung community of voiceover
artists and voice coaches, living on the fringe of the «industry», never basked in Oscar glory, but with its own rules, hierarchy and Life Achievement ceremonies.
Carl Van Vechten & the Harlem Renaissance: A
Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as
Portrait in Black & White By Emily Bernard Yale University Press Hardcover, $ 30.00 372 pages, Illustrated ISBN: 978 -0-300-12199-5 Book Review by Kam Williams «This book is a
portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as
portrait of a once - controversial figure... a white man with a passion for blackness... [who] played a crucial role in helping the Harlem Renaissance... come to understand itself... Carl Van Vechten has been viewed with suspicion... [as] a racial voyeur and sexual predator, an acolyte of primitivism who misused his black
artist friends and pushed them to make art that fulfilled his belief in racial stereotypes... While his early interest in blackness was certainly inspired by sexual desire and his fascination with what he perceived as black primitivism, these
features were not what sustained his interest... More important [was] his conviction that blackness was a central
feature of Americanness... Van Vechten's enthusiasm for blacks may have catapulted many careers, but at what cost to the racial integrity of those
artists, and to the Harlem Renaissance as a whole?
A musical documentary
portrait of Canadian transgender singer Rae Spoon,
featuring visual interpretations of the
artist's songs.
A great mix of old and new cinematic gold, this year's lineup includes Ildikó Enyedi's Berlinale Golden Bear - winner On Body and Soul; Mrs. Fang, Wang Bing's unflinching document of an elderly woman in her final days, which won the Golden Leopard at Locarno; the North American premiere of Katharina Wyss's powerful debut
feature Sarah Plays a Werewolf, about a woman who channels her fears into theater; Govinda Van Maele's fiction
feature debut Gutland,
featuring Phantom Thread's Vicky Krieps; the U.S. premiere of Slovenian director Rok Biček «s The Family, a compassionate
portrait of a young man's life over the course of 10 years; and experimental
artist Bertrand Mandico's exhilarating, gender - bending Wild Boys.
Bright Star UK / Australia / France, 2009, 35 mm, 119m Campion's latest
feature film is a quietly tender love story as well as a devastating
portrait of an
artist beset by tragedy.
A documentary
portrait of
artists, writers, and collectors who remain steadfastly loyal to the typewriter as a tool and muse, this intriguing and beautiful film
features Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough, Sam Shepard, and others.
The Disaster
Artist Looper Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond —
Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton Bright Pirates of The Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales Dredd Crazy Heart The B - Side: Elsa Dorfman's
Portrait Photography The Silence of the Lambs
Pixar's «Coco» won best animated
feature, best foreign film went to «BPM,» and the
portrait of two
artists «Faces Places» won best documentary.
All of the woks in this self -
portrait introduction lesson come from an exhibition held at Kettles Yard in Cambridge called Face Off - and none of the artworks
feature the
artists faces.
-- Recurring political
portrait artist for NY Magazine's Intelligencer column (2009 - 2012)--
Featured in Taschen Books» ILLUSTRATION NOW!
In addition, the event
featured an animal communicator,
portrait artist, rescue organization, two food companies offering nutrition sessions and a dog trainer.
The Castle is home to several exhibitions, including «The Queen» by light
artist Chris Levine and holographer Rob Munday, which
features, «Equanimity», a world - renowned holographic
portrait of Her Majesty commissioned as part of Jersey's celebrations of its 800 - year - old relationship with the monarchy.
Britt has exhibited across America, has been
featured in Southwest Art, American Art Collector, The
Artist's Magazine and High Fructose, and is the 2016 Grand Prize awardee of The
Artist's Magazine all media competition plus awardee of the
Portrait Society of America annual conference full tuition scholarship.
A Sum of Encounters, a blog by Emmanuel Iduma
featuring intimate
portraits of Nigerian
artists based in Nigeria or the United States, is now live.
is a major survey of the
artist's practice that will
feature portraits and abstract photographs, works related to his ongoing Truth Study Center project (begun in 2005), and posters made in support of the anti-Brexit campaign.
On Saturday night (May 28), I finished the three
portraits of Joanne Greenbaum, Bettina Pousttchi, and B. Wurtz — the
featured artists in this issue — and took a much - needed break.
Featured works in the exhibition are from the
artist's book The Wonder:
Portraits of a Remembered City.
In a 1952 self -
portrait, he carefully defined the standing
artist, the easel and the surrounding studio, but he has left blank the
features of his own face.
Installation view of KEHINDE WILEY»S «Trickster» exhibition
featuring portraits fellow contemporary
artists, including Yinka Shinabare and Lynette Yiadom - Boakye.
MUSIC >
Artist Lorna Simpson designs cover art,
featuring one of her
portraits inspired by vintage images from Ebony magazine, for Common's new album «Black America Again.»
The exhibition will
feature never before seen canvas oil paintings; tulle
portraits, a continuation of the
artist's «Gaze» series presented by C24 Gallery in 2012.
This exhibition film
features leading British
artist, Marcus Harvey, talking about his summer exhibition at Jerwood Gallery, his artistic practice and the painting that was the hot topic at the Sensations exhibition in 1997, the
portrait of Myra Hindley.
Mickalene Thomas: Mentors, Muses, and Celebrities, an exhibition
featuring photographs, film, and video, is a richly textured, and moving
portrait of the multiplicities of womanhood that builds upon the
artist's ongoing reconsideration of black female identity.
This exhibit will
feature the
artist's recent self -
portraits.
The Freight + Volume Gallery in Chelsea is currently
featuring an exhibition titled Mie: A
Portrait of 35
Artists curated by Nick Lawrence and Mie Iwatsuki.
Spielautomat (Slot Machine), 1999 - 2000, a self -
portrait of the
artist as a slot machine,
features the title object covered with overlapping rows of images — snapshots of
artist friends such as Lawrence Weiner, photographs of male movie stars torn from magazines, postcards and pictures of street scenes and storefronts — and is topped with a
portrait of Genzken by Tillmans.
Zwelethu Mthethwa, the
artist's long awaited first comprehensive monograph provides an overview of his work to date, and
features the stunning
portraits that have brought him international acclaim.
Her contribution to the exhibition includes sweaters with hand - knit political jokes and riddles, as well as «cover girl» self -
portrait photographs
featuring the
artist in deadpan poses revealing the
artist's sly sense of humor.
-- NYTimes The Larry Gagosian Effect — Wall Street Journal World's Biggest Museum Opens in China — Studio 360 Top Exhibitions of 2010 — The Art Newspaper Recent Art News - Texas Week of 03/27/11 Ed Ruscha at the Modern Museum of Fort Worth — CBS New: Sunday Morning (Video) Simpsons Takes Shots at Dallas Football, Arts District — FrontRow A work in progress: The Dallas Arts District gathers trophy buildings, but still searches for urban vitality — Chicago Tribune James Turrell mound at Rice University - Glasstire Richard Serra, Pushing the Boundaries of Drawing — ARTnews Recent Art News - National - International Week of 03/27/11 Ed Ruscha Street Photography — LATimes Stephen Colbert Exposes Himself to Art (the Appropriate Way)-- NYTimes (Video) Jerry Saltz on Andy Warhol's
Portraits of Liz Taylor — NYMag Eduardo Souto de Moura, Architect from Portugal, Wins Pritzker — NYTimes Recent Art News - Texas Week of 03/20/11 Neiman Marcus to
feature artwork in Windows — FrontRow MAC director resigns — Glasstire Recent Art News - National - International Week of 03/20/11 Jerry Saltz: How a Joyride in Gavin Brown's Volvo Became Art — NYMag Walker Art Center to Acquire Merce Cunningham's collection — Art in America Cultural Complex in Santiago di Campostela is expensive mistake - The Art Newspaper Toshiko Takaezu, Ceramic
Artist, Dies at 88 — NYTimes Recent Art News - Texas Week of 03/13/11 Artpace San Antonio — YouTube Crow Collection To Expand, Add Asian Sculpture Garden — FrontRow Donor's Son Sues Dallas Museum Over Art Collection, 25 Years Later — NYTimes Recent Art News - National - International Week of 03/13/11 Abramovic wins two - year copyright battle — The Art Newspaper Scents and Sensibility,
Artists use scent to create new experience in museums — ARTnews Spark: How Creativity Works, by Julie Burstein, Kurt Andersen — Amazon.com (Book) Michelangelo's David «could collapse due to high - speed train building» — Telegraph Recent Art News - National - International Week of 03/06/11 Norman Foster to Design Huge Hong Kong Cultural District — NYTimes Recent Art News - Texas Week of 02/27/11 AMOA leaving downtown, focusing on Laguna Gloria — Austin 360 Recent Art News - Texas Week of 02/13/11 Amon Carter's Director of Education Named National Educator of the Year — Amon Carter Museum Blanton curator heads to National Gallery of Art — Austin 360 Director Dana Friis - Hansen departs from the Austin Museum of Art — The Austin Chronicle Dallas Architecture Forum wins AIA National Collaborative Achievment Award — Dallas Archicture Forum Recent Art News - National - International Week of 02/13/11 Egyptian Archeological Sites Were Looted, Says Antiquities Minister — NYTimes Tracey Emin, the visionary, emerges as Margate's answer to William Blake — Guardian What's The Matter With Kansas... This Time?
This loan exhibition
features some 100 works from the
artist's extensive body of work and includes some wonderful
portraits and landscapes including this wonderfully monochromatic yet richly textured depiction of a Pennsylvania excavation site.
TIME MAGAZINE RELEASED its Time 100 list for 2018 and it
features three visual
artists — Judy Chicago, JR, and Kehinde Wiley, who appears in the wake of painting his news making
portrait of President Barack Obama, which was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery on
portrait of President Barack Obama, which was unveiled at the Smithsonian's National
Portrait Gallery on
Portrait Gallery on Feb. 12.
Featured image: Georg Baselitz —
portrait — photo credits Michael Dannenmann, courtesy of Huck Magazine All other images are copyright of the
artist
Featured image: Donald Sultan —
portrait, Donald Sultan —
portrait, photo credits Zach Hilty-BFA.com All images courtesy of the
artist
The exhibition
features 180 of Kikai's photographs from the past 40 years, the majority of which are from the
artist's acclaimed series Asakusa
Portraits.
Featured image:
portrait of the
artist All images copyright of the Estate of Roy Lichtenstein New York
In
Portraits, her first show in Chicago, the New York based
artist presents three medium - sized paintings, each one
featuring a head - like oval form, all of them technically dazzling with skeins of parallel dribbles that acutely change direction, forming a veritable undercarriage for hazy and more definite shapes.
On an opposite wall are larger - than - life present - day
portraits of the three
featured artists, hair grayer, faces etched, but eyes retaining the same spark.
While he is well - known for works
featuring his own social milieu — often depicting parties,
portraits of friends and fellow
artists, and, perhaps most notably, his wife Ada, who has been his model and muse for decades — the landscape of Maine, which he first encountered as a resident at the prestigious Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1949 - 50, has been a central point of reference throughout his career.
On view until 20 February at New York's Steven Kasher Gallery, «Louis Draper» is a major retrospective of over 75 prints, taken from the 1950s to the 1980s,
featuring portraits of civil rights leaders and
artists, Civil Rights - era street photography and images taken in Senegal in 1977 — 78.
Featured image: Robert Longo's
portrait — Image via likesuccess.com All other images copyright of the
artist
His sinister subject is drawn variously from local Caribbean folklore and carnival characters, Francesco Goya's equestrian
portrait of the Duke of Wellington in Apsley House — and the
artist's own
features.
Featured image: Judy Chicago — The
artist's
portrait with the Dinner Party — Image via jewishlouisville.org All images used for illustrative purposes only.
The cozy NEWD Art Show, on Johnson Avenue,
featured the Lower East Side gallery Regina Rex, which displayed several of Hannah Barrett's playfully deviant folk - arty takes on the traditional
portrait and still life; Greenpoint's 106 Green, an
artist - run space showing gently noirish figurative paintings by Beijing - raised Xinyi Cheng; and Greenpoint Terminal, offering Eric Shaw's meticulous but sardonically wobbly hard - edge abstractions.