by Aliene de Souza Howell (MFA 2011) I re-incarnated a piece from Leipzig about a business man walking past a flooded city street into a mock-up diorama. I also did a drawing for the next in my series of catastrophe meets quotidian, incorporating the Guatemalan sinkhole into a supermarket scene. For my Thesis, I am launching into a new endeavor,… Read More
Join us for a special lecture, “The Real in Caravaggio’s Realism,” by Art Historian and Critic Donald Kuspit, Wednesday, September 29, 6 pm. Donald Kuspit critiques 2007-2008 Fellow Ali Banisadr‘s painting. One of the contemporary art world’s most important voices, Donald Kuspit joins Vincent Desiderio, Eric Fischl, Jenny Saville, Will Cotton and Steven Assael as the Academy’s newest Senior… Read More
Tuesday, September 28, 7:30 pm Two Girls, 48 in. x 36 in., oil/acrylic/canvas, 2006 (Nicholas Robinson Gallery) Artist “Wei Dong explores through painting the space where heritage and modernity coexist. His works set up a dialogue, present a confrontation and explode a good number of conventions. In a disruption of tradition Wei Dong has taken this male dominated domain and… Read More
by Emily Adams (MFA 2011) The Terra Foundation residency has come to a close. On the flight back I watched from the plane window as Paris morphed from a city to a Mondrian painting, and then to some kind of off-kilter fractal in shades of green as we moved over the countryside, over Giverny. West Texas crop circles  This… Read More
Faculty guide Wade Schuman fiinishes his photographic tour through the Giverny countryside. In Veerle’s cave, which dates to the 1400s “Classic French Cows” Detail of Veronese’s St. Barnabé in Rouen
A Review by Maria Kozak (MFA 2011) The New York Times has officially declared The Recession over. This is great news for the art world. Let’s celebrate with an impressive new location for old staple Sperone Westwater and the opening of new contender RH Gallery. (concept for Sperone Westwater) On Wednesday, Sperone Westwater opens doors at its new spot on the… Read More
by Aliene de Souza Howell (MFA 2011) Back for my second and final year at the Academy, I am greeted by Will Kurtz’s newspaper motorcycle woman, Neoplatonism and a fourth floor window studio. I returned from the Leipzig residency and subsequent backpacking trip in the German Alps feeling refreshed for the first day of school and with ideas buzzing rooted… Read More
Tuesday, September 21, 7:30 pm Artist Hilary Harkness lives in New York City and is represented by Mary Boone Gallery. Jerry Saltz, critic for The Village Voice, wrote about her figures: “Whatever they’re involved in, they ooze a bitchy demonic kinkiness, which makes looking at these paintings slippery fun.” Iowa Class, 14″ by 22″ oil/linen, 2003 All lectures are… Read More
by Jessie Brugger (MFA 2010) The hills are alive with the sound of music! Okay, wrong country, but it was a true story here in Giverny, too. The Musicians for the Chamber Music Festival moved into their residency a few days before we left… and we woke up to nature humming and classical musicians playing away. Don’t get me wrong, its no Tupac… Read More
Saya Woolfalk is a New York artist who re-imagines the world in multiple dimensions (sculpture, installation, painting, performance and video). She has exhibited at PS1/MoMA; Deitch Projects; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Studio Museum in Harlem; Momenta Art; Performa09; and has been written about on Art21’s blog. With funding from… Read More
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