![Let’s get it out of the way: the body of remarkable photographs currently on display at the Guggenheim Museum’s fourth-floor annex, through June 13, were produced by Francesca Woodman between 1975 and 1981, the year she killed herself at the age of 22 by jumping out of the window of her New York loft …
Compellingly lurid though the subject of Woodman’s suicide may be, to dwell on it is to miss the full splendor of her photographs, their full range of influences (and afterlives), their sly beauty and humor.
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Let’s get it out of the way: the body of remarkable photographs currently on display at the Guggenheim Museum’s fourth-floor annex, through June 13, were produced by Francesca Woodman between 1975 and 1981, the year she killed herself at the age of 22 by jumping out of the window of her New York loft …
Compellingly lurid though the subject of Woodman’s suicide may be, to dwell on it is to miss the full splendor of her photographs, their full range of influences (and afterlives), their sly beauty and humor.
On view now at Columbia, an exhibition of Edward Gorey art, books and ephemera, collected by an early admirer who was his friend until his death
In the spring of 2013, the Water Tank Project will work with talented artists, as well as local students, to transform New York City’s many water towers into public art installations to raise awareness about water conservation. Learn more at their website, or suggest a water tower in your hood that you’d like to see get a makeover!
Water Tower Art, 2013
I feel like these artist kids can do better than painting W. A. T. E. R. on some water towers, no? Use that suggest link!
Gran Fury: Read My Lips: “the first comprehensive survey documenting the important AIDS activist art collective’s work from 1987-1995.”
![Meet downtown’s most in-demand new eccentric: 24-year-old art star and Megazine editor Loren Kramar
“For us, Megazine solves the problem of renting an exhibition space in New York City,” said [managing editor Maren] Miller, adding that art published in Megazine will be on display in a series of to-be-announced pop-up shows. “But it’s also a chance for us to use design to put the work we show in unusual contexts, or to make people see it differently.”
Presently, the founders are testing and debating different revenue streams, including an online store and a “curated” ad section. Four original Fat Ebe drawings have been sold for $600 each, Kramar said, and the proceeds were split 50-50 between the artist, Ebecho Muslimova, and the founders.
For upcoming features, a young artist named Joe Kay, Megazine’s “Man on the Street,” will interview people walking out of liquor stores, Kramar said. And in March, Megazine will launch its new erotica section with a one-page reinterpretation of Moby-Dick entitled “Maybe Dick.” First sentence: “Call me a shemale.”
In the meantime, Kramar is preparing for his first live performance in two years. He plans to auction thirty “works of art” that he has collected, borrowed, or made, he said, including a glass slipper fabricated by a Venetian glassworker and an abstract painting made by a Thai elephant.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lzws84dI0Q1qc0o3ko1_400.jpg)
Meet downtown’s most in-demand new eccentric: 24-year-old art star and Megazine editor Loren Kramar
“For us, Megazine solves the problem of renting an exhibition space in New York City,” said [managing editor Maren] Miller, adding that art published in Megazine will be on display in a series of to-be-announced pop-up shows. “But it’s also a chance for us to use design to put the work we show in unusual contexts, or to make people see it differently.”
Presently, the founders are testing and debating different revenue streams, including an online store and a “curated” ad section. Four original Fat Ebe drawings have been sold for $600 each, Kramar said, and the proceeds were split 50-50 between the artist, Ebecho Muslimova, and the founders.
For upcoming features, a young artist named Joe Kay, Megazine’s “Man on the Street,” will interview people walking out of liquor stores, Kramar said. And in March, Megazine will launch its new erotica section with a one-page reinterpretation of Moby-Dick entitled “Maybe Dick.” First sentence: “Call me a shemale.”
In the meantime, Kramar is preparing for his first live performance in two years. He plans to auction thirty “works of art” that he has collected, borrowed, or made, he said, including a glass slipper fabricated by a Venetian glassworker and an abstract painting made by a Thai elephant.
New MLK-inspired banner art by the lovely Alex Citrin on our homepage (and at the top of this Tumblr).
Your guide to a year-end art-crawl by Rozalia Jovanovic
Lola Montes Schnabel debuts on the New York gallery scene, and suddenly it feels like the ’80s again
As for Lola Schnabel, she stood under harsh fluorescent lights, talking to Courtney Love. Love, in a long red double-breasted jacket, and Schnabel in a short fur-trimmed gold jacket and black skirt, managed surprisingly to have a quiet private conversation in the middle of the crowded room.
