On the dopeness of "The Wackness" Jul 3, 2008
Despite what you may fear -- and despite the graffitti typeface, irresistible soundtrack and associated ancillary marketing -- this movie is a long way from hip pop-culture posing or generational smugness, and also a long way from the voyeuristic fatalism of Larry Clark's "Kids," although that's the obvious touchstone as to time and place ... It's not all like that Larry Clark movie, although I did know a lot of kids like those people. (Salon)
Getting a handle on the future: Biloxi museum ready to rebuild Jul 17, 2007
"Finally we have these things beginning to fall in place," said Larry Clark, president of the museum's board of trustees. "I know at our last board meeting, there was just an upbeat confidence, a toe-tapping kind of feeling that we've not had since long before the storm. Because finally we're in a position now to at least begin to control our own destiny.". (The Clarion-Ledger)
COUNCIL ACCEPTS BID FOR CITY BASKETBALL COURT Jun 14, 2007
"The basketball court should be open before the Fourth of July," promised Larry Clark, of Clark Construction. All rights reserved. (Lafayette Macon County Times, TN)
* A movement and a moment May 10, 2007
Thus they seem to have skipped past self-acceptance and the hoary dramas of the closet, and moved directly to forms of expression that are frank, exuberant, celebratory, bawdy and not infrequently marked by the spirit of juvenilia that the (heterosexual) photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark has been mining for years. Slava Mogutin, front, and Brian Kenny, background, whose work is being exhibited in The Male Gaze. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Is gay male art more than a microtrend? May 9, 2007
Thus they seem to have skipped past self-acceptance and the hoary dramas of the closet, and moved directly to forms of expression that are frank, exuberant, celebratory, bawdy and not infrequently marked by the spirit of juvenilia that the (heterosexual) photographer and filmmaker Larry Clark has been mining for years. "The art we're showing," said Nicholas Weist, the curator of "The Male Gaze," an assembly of more than 20 mostly young gay artists, among them such collectors' darlings as... (International Herald Tribune)
Call for Artists:2007 International Juried Competition May 5, 2007
Jurors: Rebecca Morse Assistant Curator, MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art Since 2001 she has flown solo on shows for filmmaker/photographer/provocateur Larry Clark, Aaron Siskind and Franz Klein (2001-2002), and Lee Friedlander (2002). Her biggest endeavor was the Lucian Freud exhibit (2003). (AbsoluteArts.com)
Less Hulk, More Bruce Lee Apr 5, 2007
They launched a guerrilla campaign that plucked New York hipsters off the street, photographed them in a Larry Clark (Kids) documentary style, and then manipulated the images to create jazzy Blue Note--inspired album covers that became the centerpieces of the ad campaign. The early years also included work for an obscure local division of IBM (NYSE:IBM), a relationship that eventually produced a JDK classic: a postmodern take on the iconic Paul Rand pictogram poster (an eye next to a bee,... (FastCompany)
'Alpha Dog': The Kids Are All Wrong, By Kurt Loder Jan 14, 2007
"); 'Alpha Dog': The Kids Are All Wrong, By Kurt Loder By Kurt Loder Justin Timberlake and Olivia Wilde in "Alpha Dog" Photo: Universal Justin Timberlake tops an unforgettable cast in Nick Cassavetes' powerful true-crime drug shocker. The twentysomething youth scene we see in this brilliant, chilling film is a moral black hole festering in the sun-baked suburbs of Southern California. Its inhabitants are well-to-do white stoner kids, stumbling through their wasted days in a haze of pot smoke,... (MTV.com)
* High style born low Dec 28, 2006
Look no further than Larry Clark or Jane Dickson or John Ahearn or the various other artists X some now museum darlings like Kiki Smith and Nan Goldin X who made an early splash at the celebrated Times Square Show in 1980. That the people from the time and the place that Watanabe depicted in Tokyo bear a superficial resemblance to their counterparts in lowlife neighborhoods across the world may be coincidence. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Obituaries, Dec. 2, 2006 Dec 4, 2006
He was an employee of Larry Clark Chevrolet in Amory. He married Georgia Mae Walton on Jan. 27, 1979. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
more Comely comic Jul 20, 2006
One day when Rosario Dawson was 15 and sitting on the porch of her New York apartment building, she was discovered by filmmaker Larry Clark and cast in the controversial Kids. Now 27, she ranks among Hollywood's A-list, starring in such films as Men in Black II, 25th Hour, Sin City and Rent. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
A playful eye charts '60s surrealism Jul 11, 2006
As ever, at the centre of any Henson essay there is a frozen-faced young woman, suffused with manufactured melancholia deeper than anything Larry Clark may have documented from life. Here, she remains besieged by darkness, accompanied by images suggesting various ambiguous meanings. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
The Movie I've Seen the Most: Jul 2, 2006
Learning to loveor at least toleratethe movies of Larry Clark. Christopher Kellyposted June 30, 2006. (Slate)
Cannes: a user's guide May 15, 2006
Try these crossovers: the British artist Douglas Gordon co-directs a portrait of Zinedine Zidane, Zidane: un portrait, while assorted provocateurs from both film and gallery worlds get together for the (reputedly very mixed) hard-core sex anthology Destricted: directors include Sam Taylor-Wood (inset), Matthew Barney, Larry Clark, Marina Abramovic and Gaspar No. And if that seems too tame, then you'll probably want to try Taxidermia - an allegedly jaw-dropping Hungarian film about murder,... (Independent)
BBC television crew follows famous footsteps through city May 4, 2006
BBC director Chris Rodley says the sixty-plus photographers will include the inventors of photography, Joseph Nicephore Niepce, William Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre as well as its more modern practitioners, including James Nachtwey, Nan Goldin, Joel Sternfeld, Stephen Shore, Martin Parr, Susan Meiselas, Gilles Peres, Araki, Andreas Gursky, Sally Mann, Thomas Struth, William Eggeston, Larry Clark, William Klein, Duane Michals (a McKeesport native), Harold Feinstein, Shomei Tomatsu and... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
