“It’s more interesting to look at the picture as a representation than to look at the event as an event.” Jeff Wall Certainly if the average person were to describe…
Category: Art & Artists
Elger Esser is back at Sonnabend, one of the Hound’s favorite Chelsea galleries. There weren’t that many pictures in his recent show, and they were of varying intensity and not…
GlobeAuto Careers Classifieds Newspaper Ads Personals Real Estate <img height=”1″ width=”1″ border=”0″ src=”http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/imp.gif?client=ca-pub-4377513809082079&dt=1233548295510&lmt=1233548293&format=728x90_as&output=html&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2Fstory%2FLAC.20090131.BKPHOTO31%2FTPStory%2F%3Fquery%3Dmichael%2Bfried&color_bg=FFFFFF&color_text=808080&color_link=003366&color_url=800040&color_border=000000&ad_type=text&ref=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theglobeandmail.com%2Fservlet%2FPage%2Fdocument%2Fv5%2Ftemplates%2Fhub%3FsearchText%3Dmichael%2Bfried%26hub%3DSearch%26searchType%3DQuick%26control%3DsearchSimple%26iaction.x%3D34%26iaction.y%3D1%26iaction%3DGo&u_h=800&u_w=1280&u_ah=778&u_aw=1235&u_cd=24&u_tz=-300&u_his=3&u_java=true&u_nplug=9&u_nmime=98&event=noiframe” /> PHOTOGRAPHY Snap judgment Michael Fried offers an engaging reading of contemporary art photography BRIAN HURLEY January…
Dead Troops Talk (a vision after an ambush of a Red Army patrol, near Moqor, Afghanistan, winter 1986) 1992 The above image, courtesy of the Tate, is one of Wall’s…
Bill Jeffries, Glen Lowry & Jerry Zaslove, eds., Unfinished Business:Photographing Vancouver Streets 1955 to 1985 (Burnaby: West Coast Line, 2005) In June I walked into the Monte Clark Gallery on…
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Lisa Robertson in Richard Serra, Gagosian I originally posted this photograph along with a response to that Serra show at the Gagosian in 2006, and somehow, it’s fitting to see…
(all photographs by Stephanie Fysh) SQ: You recently had your first juried show at the Gladstone Hotel in Toronto in conjunction with Contact 2007. Can you tell me how that…
(Photograph by Zoe Strauss)If you reading this fuck youZoe Strauss is a self-taught photography-based installation artist. She lives and works in Philadelphia where she was born (at Pennsylvania Hospital, the…
New director on the block. Add one more woman to very short list. Hound idol Lydia Davis on CBC’s Writer’s & Company. Catch it Sunday, or on podcast. The New…
I posted on Diane Arbus very briefly after seeing her show at the Met, and after seeing a show in Chelsea. Briefly I suppose because despite her dual giantess status in…
Yes, I mean that Walter De Maria, The Lightning Field, Walter De Maria. Growing up with a father who liked to machine things, I feel warmly toward a room filled…