Global, Local Panoramas: Photography Beyond Illusion
Last summer, I attended the exhibition of Andreas Gursky’s big—and I mean big —photographs at Matthew Marks Gallery. Intending to review the work of this art-world phenom (Mr. Gursky is one of our current crop of art stars), I found myself dumbfounded: His panoramic photos of international locales—pictures that Read More
Last summer, I attended the exhibition of Andreas Gursky’s big—and I mean big —photographs at Matthew Marks Gallery. Intending to review the work of this art-world phenom (Mr. Gursky is one of our current crop of art stars), I found myself dumbfounded: His panoramic photos of international locales—pictures that convert human and architectural abundance into Read More
Who was it that said consistency is the surest indication of a little mind? Whoever it was hadn’t seen the exhibition of paintings by Andrew Lenaghan currently at the George Adams Gallery. Mr. Lenaghan is a realist painter whose subject is his own backyard, or rather our backyard: New York City. The New York he Read More
