SurfWax News Index  |  Track News  |  Save/Exchange Information |  About Us News and Articles on Hilla Becher 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) Wonder, the Impossible and the Everyday and other announcements  Nov 3, 2009 g., Bernd and Hilla Becher s), Walker Evans s portraits of tools, and in their formal composition, to Robert Mapplethorpe s abstract and sexualized depictions of bodies and flowers. Shirreff s photographs thus straddle, perhaps uneasily, the thin line between representation and abstraction: ambiguously defined objects are clearly itemized as their mottled surfaces are transformed into varying tones of light and dark. (AbsoluteArts.com) Susan Hiller: 'The J. Street Project'  Aug 9, 2009 Hiller's project continues the "typological" approach of celebrated works by artists such as Ed Ruscha, Dan Graham and Bernd and Hilla Becher. But the topical nature of her project, at once low key and fraught, makes its format freshly vivid. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment) Back to Art News [ Terms Of Use | Privacy | About ] ©1998-2009 SurfWax, Inc. All rights reserved. Patents pending. Copyright SurfWax, Inc. 2009