How Many Costume Changes Are There in Lady Gaga's New Video? Nov 17, 2009
Think Cindy Sherman does Marilyn Manson. Or Stanley Kubrick presenting a Paris runway show. (Slate)
Berkeley - fabulous pho and eco home design Nov 9, 2009
Creative Growth, 355 24th St., Oakland: "My old neighborhood in San Francisco is home to Creativity Explored, an extraordinary center for art-making by people with mental disabilities. So I'm glad that the East Bay has a similar institution. Creative Growth has recently hit the international stage, with its own gallery in Paris and guest appearances by folks like David Byrne and Cindy Sherman at their recent fundraiser. But it's the day-to-day maelstrom of creativity that makes this place a true... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Rose Art Museum display justifies the passions Nov 5, 2009
sz, Weegee, and Walker Evans rub shoulders with larger works by an all-star contemporary cast: Cindy Sherman, Gregory Crewdson, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Nan Goldin, Sally Mann, Richard Prince, and Matthew Barney. But if you think all that sounds good, it s in the neighboring Lois Foster wing, a large and beautiful space that was added to the museum s original building in 2001, that at last we get a hearty dollop of the Rose s tremendous postwar holdings: one after the other, sensational works by... (Boston Globe)
Movies, Money, and a Mummy! 10.27.2009 Oct 28, 2009
Episode 3, Transformation: Yinka Shonibare MBE, Cindy Sherman, Paul McCarthy Whether observing and satirizing society or reinventing icons of literature, art history, and popular culture, the artists featured in Transformation capture the sensibilities of our age while at times inhabiting the characters they have created. Episode 4, Systems: Julie Mehretu, John Baldessari, Kimsooja, Allan McCollumSystems features artists who realize complex projects through acts of appropriation or accumulation. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Performa 09: Join Us On Opening Night! Oct 27, 2009
RoseLee Goldberg, Toby Devan Lewis, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, Cindy Sherman, Todd Bishop, Mike Kelley, Marina Abramovic, Marian Goodman, Francesco Vezzoli, Carol Lim, Humberto Leon, Elizabeth Dee, Cecilia Alemani, Wangechi Mutu, Mario Batali and Susi Cahn, Jacques Torres, Dennis Freedman, and X Initiative. Cordially invite you to the Performa 09 Opening Night Benefit Dinner. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Paul Tschinkel at Freies Museum Berlin Oct 21, 2009
Paul Tschinkel @ Freies Museum Oct. 20 2009 - Oct. 21 2009 Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Louise Bourgeois, Cindy Sherman, Nam June Paik, Mark Kostabi and others by Paul Tschinkel ... Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Laurie Anderson, Nam June Paik, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lee Krasner and Mark Kostabi are just a few of the artists that Tschinkel accompanied in the last thirty years ... 7:00 PM Chuck Close 7:45 Cindy Sherman 8:15 Short... (AbsoluteArts.com)
Frisco rocks with activitiy (1020) Oct 6, 2009
Spanning five continents, the series includes such legendary figures as Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, John Baldessari, and many more. Open to the public, the Visual Arts Guild of Frisco will premier two episodes of the series before they air on PBS at the gallery 8680 located at 8680 Main St., Suite 1E.. (McKinney Courier-Gazette, TX)
Auction nets Hallwalls $70K Sep 25, 2009
Two sold for more than $10,000 apiece: a photo by Cindy Sherman, which sold for $10,625; and a glitter, ink and paper collage on paper called Bird and Stars by Kiki Smith, which sold for $10,625, exceeding its estimated value of $5,000-$7,000. Reader Comments. (Buffalo Business First, NY)
PAUL STEINITZ : God Only Knows Why My Trip Never Ended Aug 14, 2009
His portraits were on view next to the works by of Damien Hirst, Julian Schnabel, and Cindy Sherman. Aged 41, Paul has two children; he lives and works in Paris, New York, and London. (AbsoluteArts.com)
John Baldessari, 'Art and Power' in Africa Jul 26, 2009
An influential teacher who has spent nearly all of his career in Southern California, Baldessari offered a liberating example to a phalanx of artists emergent around the turn of the 1980s, personified by now-famous names such as Cindy Sherman, David Salle and Sherrie Levine. New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art included Baldessari as a foundational figure in its current survey of the period's art, "The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984.". (San Francisco Chronicle)
Art Basel 2009: Recession appeal Jun 19, 2009
The building, whose opening was one of the highlights of the Biennale, raised the bar for private museums and many collectors were reassured by the confident display of new masterpieces by artists such as Maurizio Cattelan, Mike Kelley and Cindy Sherman. Art Basel is not just a market but a social whirl that thrives on ambience cocktails at the Beyeler Museum, dinner at Chez Donati, nightcaps at the Three Kings Hotel. (The Economist)
We Hear . . . May 29, 2009
THAT charity ACRIA, which benefits AIDS research, will hold its annual art event Tuesday at 15 Union Square West with works by Aaron Young, Kelly Klein, Kenny Scharf, Will Cotton, Terence Koh and Cindy Sherman and a "sexual theme" that's sure to titillate such guests as Ross Bleckner, Martha Nelson and Anna Sui. THAT Billy Joel will show his collection of 31 motorcy cles at the Christy Building in Sag Harbor June 6-20 for the exhibition "20th Century Cy cles: The Motorcycle as Art and Icon.". (New York Post -- Gossip)
Memories, beyond the Kodak moment May 19, 2009
(Cindy Sherman meets Yousuf Karsh. The resulting body of work is as much a record of great performance (not to mention superb art direction and costuming) as it is great photography. (Globe and Mail)
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Alien Emotions: The Art World: The New Yorker (New Yorker)
Price, Boyle inducted into exclusive academy Apr 15, 2009
The first photographer, Cindy Sherman, was elected in 2005. Still waiting. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Batwoman's back Apr 10, 2009
" Alter-ego The same music monthlies have "been very slow to catch on" to Bat For Lashes, she says, but "when they have done features, they've been really nice". She bristles, however, when journalists suggest Two Suns is a "concept album" with Khan playing a blonde alter-ego called Pearl. The character is "one tiny little element" of the record, she says; a femme fatale inspired by drag queens in New York and photographs by Diane Arbus and Cindy Sherman. The singer was a nursery school teacher... (BBC News -- Entertainment)
British Charity Urges Madonna To Reconsider Adoption Plans Mar 29, 2009
"Guest Of Cindy Sherman", a new documentary, offers an insider's perspective on the constantly evolving New York City art community. Madonna, who stirred controversy when she adopted a young Malawian boy, is apparently going back for more -- more children and more controversy. (KWTX.com, TX)
Romance And Celebrity In The Art World Mar 28, 2009
Documentary "Guest of Cindy Sherman" Examines The Vexing Relationship Of The Photographer And Paul H-O ... Paul H-O and Cindy Sherman ... (CBS) With her innovative abstract photographs, Cindy Sherman has gained a great deal of celebrity and influence within todays art world. (CBS News)
GUEST OF CINDY SHERMAN Mar 27, 2009
CINDY Sherman and Paul H-O (that's what he calls himself) seem like unlikely lovers. She is a respected artist and film director (the comic thriller "Office Killer" in 1997), cute and intelligent. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
A life videotaping life has become a movie Mar 19, 2009
Though it touches on all aspects of his personal and professional life, "The Feature" is primarily the story of Mr. Auder's marriages, first to the irrepressible Viva, later to the introverted Cindy Sherman, whose reluctance to be a subject of his omnivorous, gregarious work opens up a rift in their relationship. Or that's how Mr. Auder, who narrates in his seductive, half-mumbled French accent, remembers things. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
After Capitalism Mar 11, 2009
Although a once-unlikely coalition government has been formed between two former rivals, "[s]ome IRA splinter groups are still planting explosives and, rarely, executing enemies." Another analyzes a Cindy Sherman photograph that will appear this spring in an exhibition on the American West at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Sherman, known for her staged, "film still" self-portraits, "resists any reference to cowboys or Indians" in the photo and instead "offers an alternative mythology" of... (Slate)
