august feature Archive
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From Puppeteer to Sculptor: Ron Mueck’s Hyperrealism
Posted on August 19, 2011In 1996, sculptor Ron Mueck presented the world with a very different version of Pinocchio per the request of—of all people—his mother-in-law. Mueck’s statue depicts the marionette post-human transformation and gives the line “I’m a real boy!” entirely new meaning. As with all the sculptures in Ron Mueck, by National Gallery of Victoria curator David Hurlston, the figure’s realism is simultaneously astonishing and unsettling. -
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Restoring Ishimoto’s Vision of Katsura
Posted on August 16, 2011When photographer Ishimoto Yasuhiro asked modernist architect Tange Kenzō to write an essay for his book of Katsura photographs, he inadvertently pitted architectural and photographic approaches against each other. Kenzō’s enthusiastic reaction was akin to Dad “helping” with his child’s science fair by reshaping the vision of the project; instead of merely contributing an essay, he cropped, resized, and reorganized the pictures into what became the “landmark” work. -
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Impossible Outfit: Summer Wedding Edition
Posted on August 12, 2011Going to a summer wedding? (Or going to four, as the case may be for Yale University Press’s Paper Doll?) Check out the outfit she has put together, and if you like it, let her know in the comments section, and she may coordinate a personal ensemble just for you! -
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Notes From A Native New Yorker: Shrinking Displays of the Department Store
Posted on August 9, 2011Michelle Stein— In The American Department Store Transformed, 1920-1960, Richard Longstreth documents the development of the department store as it moves from “a great, all-inclusive emporium that helped define the […] -
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Propaganda As Art?: Windows on the War
Posted on August 9, 2011Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945, edited by Art Institute of Chicago curators Peter Kort Zegers and Douglas Druick to accompany an exhibition on view there until October 23, 2011, examines an art form that had been forgotten until now. The stenciled, handmade posters made by the Soviet TASS news agency during WWII are now available to the English-speaking public for the first time. -
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Honesty is Michael Fried’s Best Policy
Posted on August 8, 2011You may have caught the mention in the letters to the editor from this past weekend’s issue of the New York Times Book Review, or perhaps you read the interview […] -
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Women with Good Taste: The Cone Sisters and Matisse
Posted on August 8, 2011When modern artists like Picasso and Matisse first started trying to sell the public on their work, the experience was extremely difficult—everyone knows just how successful Van Gogh was, after […] -
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Books for Summer Roadtrips
Posted on August 5, 2011Feel like a roadtripping across the U.S. this August? Visit these iconic spots--or just find a lawn chair in the sunshine and read about them!