Afterimage articles from March 1999

Afterimage archives from March 1999

The eye of Brassai.(Brassai, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas)
March 1, 1999... The Brassai exhibition last fall (October 14-November 14) at the Robert Miller Gallery in New York City passed with little notice. The timing of the exhibition appears to have been an attempt to benefit from the "buzz" developing just before...

Art.com: California Governors Conference on the Arts.
March 1, 1999... Beyond the Millennium: Redefining the Arts for the 21st Century California Governor's Conference on the Arts Los Angeles, California December 7-10, 1998 We all hear stories of how technology profoundly influences who we are both as...

Mois de la photo.(various photographers, various galleries, Paris, France)
March 1, 1999... Some of the first sights photography presented to the world were the rooftops and streets of Paris, wondrously captured in the early works of both its French and English inventors, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre and William Henry Fox Talbot....

On the walls in Belfast.(various photographers, various galleries, Belfast, Northern Ireland)
March 1, 1999... With fall in Belfast comes the annual Belfast Festival, an international cornucopia of the arts that extends throughout the winter months. This past season was particularly rich in photography. The images usually associated with Ulster come...

The new flesh.(movie photographers)
March 1, 1999... Within a decade after the public release of the photographic process, photographers were shooting criminals and crime scenes. Over the next century such images, spurred by investigative and scientific inquires, proliferated throughout Europe...

The photographic idea: reconsidering conceptual photography.
March 1, 1999... They were there simply to indicate a radical art that had already vanished. The photograph was necessary only as a residue for communication. - Dennis Oppenheim on his use of photographs.(1) This statement by Dennis Oppenheim...

Cyborgs, avatars, laa-laa and Po: the work of Mariko Mori.
March 1, 1999... Occasionally an artist emerges whose rise to prominence is so meteoric that there is immediate doubt regarding the seriousness of the artist's work. Thirty-two-year-old Mariko Mori had four major solo exhibitions in 1998: at the Los Angeles...

The future's past: re-imaging the Cuban revolution.
March 1, 1999... Parallel to the current flood of essays, articles and newspaper and television reports from all sectors of the political spectrum that insist on the immanent demise of a hobbled Cuban Revolution, there has been the equally hard to miss return...

Getting a shelf life.(various artists, various galleries)
March 1, 1999... In some respects this is a flush time for the artist book world. Despite continuing shortages of artist book distributors, bookstores and outlets for serious criticism, there are more titles in print than ever before and more colleges and...

Kurdistan: In the Shadow of History.(Review)
March 1, 1999... by Susan Meiselas New York: Random House, 1997 388 pp./$100.00 (hb) ". . . The world is a garden of culture where a thousand flowers grow. Throughout history all cultures have fed one another, been grafted onto one another, and in the...

The Unmapped Body: 3 Black British Artists.(Review)
March 1, 1999... Yale University Art Gallery New Haven Connecticut October 13, 1998-January 3, 1999 Last October the Yale University Art Gallery, with support from the Yale Center for British Art, opened "The Unmapped Body: 3 Black British Artists,"...

Thinking locally.(visual art, various artists, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut)
March 1, 1999... Last October the Yale University Art Gallery, with support from the Yale Center for British Art, opened "The Unmapped Body: 3 Black British Artists," exhibiting the work of Sutapa Biswas, Sonia Boyce and Keith Piper. The modest yet powerful...

The Passionate Camera: Photography and Bodies of Desire.(Review)
March 1, 1999... edited by Deborah Bright New York: Routledge, 1998 441 pp./$30.00 (sb) Although years of interdisciplinary labors have undoubtedly altered academia for the next millennium, the world of academic publishing has remained relatively...

Talking place.(various artists, Canadian Museum of Civilization, Quebec, Canada)
March 1, 1999... Reservation X: The Power of Place in Aboriginal Contemporary Art Canadian Museum of Civilization Hull, Quebec, Canada April 24, 1998-March 7, 1999 "Reservation X: The Power of Place in Aboriginal Contemporary Art" showcases the work of...

Media, Culture, and the Religious Right.(Review)
March 1, 1999... edited by Linda Kintz and Julia Lesage Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1998 380 pp./$19.95 (sb) "Timely" is an oft-abused shorthand in the language of mainstream book reviews: it tends to be either a way of praising the...

Continuous weave.(Margaret Wagner, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania)
March 1, 1999... Making and Unmaking by Margaret Wagner Mobius Boston, Massachusetts October 14-November 7, 1998 Hewlett Gallery Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania February 4-28, 1999 Returning home to Phoenix this past Christmas, I...