A New Novel Explores the Battles that Play Out in Every Artist’s Head While Deliciously Skewering the Art World
Barbara Bourland's novel about a young female artist earnestly making paintings in NYC in the early ‘90s captures all of the magical pain of being an artist
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.
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.
Jencso manipulates our attention to be just as glued to the devices as the girl in the image appears to be.
