Synthia Saint James' Circle of Promise to be Unveiled Jun 1, 2008
I would not normally get involved in a debate that has already been commented on by everyone and anyone but since I have already written on a similar issue involving the work of Nan Goldin, and I am an Australian, I am going to say my piece. Considering that Bill Henson has been producing similar works for more than 15 years it is unfortunate that he has basically been led to believe that what he is doing would not result in any serious negative consequences. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Interview: The dark room May 23, 2008
Now, on the eve of the Observer's sponsorship of a major retrospective of her work in London, Sheryl Garratt talks to Nan Goldin about love, survival and loss ... just opposite the George Pompidou Centre in Paris, I recognise Nan Goldin instantly ... She may not be fond of metaphor, but it's hard to find a better one for Nan Goldin's art. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
'My camera has saved my life' May 22, 2008
From New York's druggy nightlife to her parents 'making out', Nan Goldin chronicles the real and the raw ... Nan Goldin leads me into the bedroom of her Paris apartment, fluffs up a pillow and settles down on her bed, lighting a cigarette ... Nan Goldin with Patrick Wolf and John Kelly UBS Openings: The Long Weekend is at Tate Modern, London, on Saturday, 9pm. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
The photo is dead. Long live the photo May 5, 2008
Perhaps, as we all erect our personal webcams, the future of photography lies much more in the direction that the American artist Nan Goldin has pioneered with her impromptu portraits of herself and her friends. The MOCCA exhibit includes Heartbea t, a 14-minute slide show of various couples, mostly straight, one gay, some with children, often naked, in bathtubs, smoking cigarettes, nursing a baby, travelling by train, swimming and making love. (Globe and Mail)
A love affair with the face Feb 18, 2008
Also represented are Andre Kertesz, Florence Henri, Arnold Newman, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Erwin Blumenfeld, Richard Avedon, Diane Arbus, Herbert Bayer, Harold Edgerton, Cecil Beaton, Nan Goldin, Eve Arnold, the remarkable Germaine Krull (a terrific photo of painter and fellow race-car aficionado, Francis Picabia, from 1935) and the indisputably great and fearless Margaret Bourke-White (her Coffee Plantation Worker from 1936, a face that looks to be cast in bronze). One of the highlights of the... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
The fashion forecast Dec 30, 2007
There is work by Thirties photographers such as Cecil Beaton, Man Ray and Edward Steichen, and the magazine's revival in the Eighties means that new superstar snappers such as Herb Ritts and Nan Goldin are also represented. A special sub-exhibition focuses on VF's most famous photographer, queen of the lens Annie Leibovitz. (Guardian Unlimited)
Vanity Fair photo archive to go on display Nov 20, 2007
The magazine, according to co-curator Terence Pepper, was also particularly adept at commissioning future stars: a young Nan Goldin, for instance, shot actor Rob Lowe for Vanity Fair early in her career. Leibovitz is perhaps the name most commonly associated with the magazine in its present form. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
From trash to treasure - the myth of artistic genius Nov 13, 2007
In High Art, the character based on Nan Goldin is sacrificed to heroin abuse; Jennifer Jason Leigh's seedy, squinting Dorothy Parker drinks her talent away. Female geniuses are passed off as neurotic nut-jobs and called by their first names - Sylvia, Iris, Jane, Jackie, Frida - like pet dogs. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Elton artwork 'not indecent' Oct 27, 2007
The photo, Klara and Edda Belly Dancing by American Nan Goldin, was taken from Gateshead's Baltic gallery by Northumbria Police on 20 September. It was withdrawn the day before it was due to go on display. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
News in brief Oct 27, 2007
The image of two naked girls, taken by US photographer Nan Goldin, was seized last month, the day before it was due to go on display at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead. The photograph, titled Klara and Edda Belly-Dancing 1998, was among 149 Goldin images owned by Sir Elton. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Gallery exhibit not child porn, says CPS Oct 26, 2007
The image, by the US photographer Nan Goldin, is entitled Klara and Edda Belly-Dancing 1998 and features two young girls, one of whom was sitting down with her legs wide apart. Northumbria police removed it from the Baltic Modern Art gallery last month, the day before it was due to go on display to the public. (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Elton's photo 'not indecent image' Oct 26, 2007
The image of two naked girls, taken by US photographer Nan Goldin, was seized last month, the day before it was due to go on display at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, Tyne and Wear. The CPS said that "the evidence is insufficient to justify proceedings for offences of possession or distribution of an indecent photograph". (Guardian Unlimited -- UK)
Portrait of the artist as a gender-blender Oct 18, 2007
Nan Goldin photographed drag queens in makeup, but unclad. All daring and, to varying degrees, discomfiting, because, let's face it, most of us like our categories, and gender is a very reliable way to categorize people. (Boston Globe)
Elton John removes photos from gallery Oct 3, 2007
The BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, in Gateshead, northeastern England, said it closed "Thanksgiving," an installation of 149 pictures by American photographer Nan Goldin, at John's request. "After the removal of one image from the series it was no longer possible for BALTIC to exhibit the collection of works as the artist intended," the gallery said in a statement. (FOX 11, AZ)
Gallery closes controversial Elton exhibit Oct 3, 2007
Gallery was displaying Nan Goldin photos owned by Elton John ... The BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art, in Gateshead, northeastern England, said it closed "Thanksgiving," an installation of 149 pictures by American photographer Nan Goldin, at John's request. (CNN -- Showbiz)
Elton owner of stolen photo Sep 28, 2007
26, 2007 12:00 AM LONDON - Elton John said Wednesday that he owns a photo of two naked girls taken by award-winning photographer Nan Goldin that was seized by police at a British gallery over concerns it amounted to child pornography. John confirmed ownership of "Klara and Edda Belly-Dancing" in a statement on his Web site. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Elton John confirms he owns seized photo Sep 28, 2007
Nan Goldin artwork features two naked girls; police removed it from gallery ... LONDON - Elton John said Wednesday that he owns a photo of two naked girls taken by award-winning photographer Nan Goldin that was seized by police at a British gallery over concerns it amounted to child pornography. (MSNBC -- News)
Elton John confirms ownership of photo seized by UK police Sep 26, 2007
Northumbria police said the picture by award-winning American photographer Nan Goldin was taken from the BALTIC Center for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, northeastern England. The picture, titled "Klara and Edda Belly-Dancing," shows two naked girls, and was one of 149 photographs by Goldin owned by the rock star. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Capturing spontaneity as composed chaos Jul 22, 2007
But the portraits by Katy Grannan and Nan Goldin, and Idris Khan's conceptual exercise in multiple exposure, represent too vividly the precedence of art-market heat over artistic radiance, something little in evidence in Fraenkel's previous arrays of new acquisitions. As usual, Fraenkel has tried to group pictures to bring out submerged affinities. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Merging detachment and intimacy May 20, 2007
A 1976 graduate of the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, diCorcia has been identified with the so-called Boston School of photography, whose best known other member is Nan Goldin. But diCorcia, who earned an MFA degree at Yale, has never practiced the kind of grittily personal, diaristic photography that Goldin is famous for. (Boston Globe)
* 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)
Institute of Contemporary Art Dec 8, 2006
In the East Gallery are the ICA s permanent exhibits; works by photographers Nan Goldin and Philip-Lorca di Corcia, and artists Laylah Ali, Kai Althoff and English installation artist Cornelia Parker to name a few. The West Gallery s futuristic exhibit, Super Vision, is the work of twenty-seven artists who push the outside of the envelope showing new technologies of vision. (Suite101.com)
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)
Searching for truth amid the suffering Apr 19, 2006
They include Sebastiao Salgado, James Nachtwey, Joel Meyerowitz, Nan Goldin, Susan Meiselas, and Nicholas Nixon. This is a show that wants to make museumgoers think, and think hard. (Boston Globe)
With its new collection, ICA walks a fine line Apr 12, 2006
This brings the new collection to 15 objects by 11 artists, including Cornelia Parker, Mona Hatoum, Nan Goldin, Laylah Ali, Marlene Dumas, Thomas Hirschhorn, Paul Chan, and Taylor Davis ... Already, there's a packed-in-mothballs whiff to at least one of the pieces, Nan Goldin's ''Matt and Louis in the Tub Kissing, Cambridge, 1988. (Boston Globe)
ICA selects the first 11 works for its permanent collection Mar 10, 2006
Eleven works of art, ranging from images by the gritty photographer Nan Goldin to a large sculpture of hanging charcoal, will be the first items in the Institute of Contemporary Art's new permanent collection, the museum will announce today. The addition of a permanent collection is keyed to the opening of the ICA's $51 million new building, on Fan Pier, which is set to open Sept. 17. (Boston Globe)
Art | Goldin keeps you guessing Jan 1, 2006
In Nan Goldin's cin;ma verit; tableaus, it's not always easy to tell what, if anything, is going on with her subjects, who are also friends: cross-dressers, drug users, and people who aren't shy about exposing their bodies and their most intimate emotions to her camera ... "Nan Goldin: Fantastic Tales" continues at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Broad and Cherry Streets, through Feb. 12. (Philly.com -- Entertainment)
