Visual Art Page 48
The Perils and Pleasures of Institutionalizing “Camp” at The Met
Susan Sontag created a sprawling and unwieldy definition in 58 points published in 1964 which inspired the Met's Costume Institute’s current exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion
If you have never encountered the concept of camp before, but saw some of the pictures of what the glitterati were wearing to the Met Gala, you might be forgiven for thinking it had something to do with ruffles, feathers, and general absurdity in fashion.
An Interview With Ruth Pettus
Ruth Pettus’ enormous paintings of isolated massive figures emerged in exhibitions locally in the early 1990s. Each painting portrays a single mysterious male form wearing a suit that hangs like soaked armor.
Kaitlin Jencso’s Transformations of the Mundane in the Digital Era
Jencso manipulates our attention to be just as glued to the devices as the girl in the image appears to be.
The House Gallery: An Interview with Joy Davis, Owner and Director of Waller Gallery
Joy Davis talks about navigating home and work, public and private, and dreams versus reality.
