With the advent of the digital age, deception in photography has never been easier, and Amir Zaki makes the best possible case for its artistic benefits. His brilliant and compelling portraits of retro-chic lifeguard towers in Southern California are the product of nearly as much i...
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Installation at Western Bridge, Seattle.Photo: Merrill Greene.
Where better right now for a new arrival in Seattle to begin to get a sense of the city’s art culture than at Western Bridge? Bill and Ruth True’s philanthropic art project is remarkable enough, but if it were necessary to d...
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You’re looking at work by a young man just out of art school, and just into an enthusiastically liberated gay life. Every work we see in Polaroids: Mapplethorpe was made by a man younger than 25. Robert Mapplethorpe would have turned 63 in November of 2009, had he not died twenty years ago...
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Never mind the fact that we are the helpless playthings of an indifferent universe – we can always build models. Models indulge our fantasies of control and desire, promising the potential of power over real-world counterparts; Voodoo dolls come to mind. ...
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Wake up, people! The task that Chris Jordan has set himself with Running the Numbers, his call-to-arms series of photographs dramatizing key environmental and political statistics, is daunting, if not impossible. Yes, we are enraged and disgusted by our neighbor’s dog...
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