Caslon Projects

Robert Storr, US critic, curator and dean of the Yale School of Art: Maintaining a career nowadays is extraordinarily complicated, even if you’re just doing your work and showing up for required occasions. You can waste an amazing amount of energy, time and goodwill by chasing after stuff that’s not worth chasing after. Really wise [...]

Above Photo by Robert Frank, from The Americans. On view now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is the stunning exhibition of photographs by Robert Frank. If you can, go see it. Anthony Lane also wrote about it in the New Yorker.

A microscope photograph of the flow pattern in draining soap film (magnification 10x) by Dr. Tsutomu Seimiya from Tokyo Metropolitan University, Tokyo, Japan. Since 1975, Nikon has been awarding annual prizes to scientists and enthusiasts who take pictures through a microscope. Popularly known as a maker of professional and consumer cameras, the company is also [...]

Bruce Nauman leaves the land alone for a few minutes and does it in the air: Photo and video by Christopher Knight, and the article he wrote about it is here.

Arts organizations enter the healthcare debate. Christopher Knight, of the LA Times, writes: Under the umbrella of Americans for the Arts, the Washington, D.C.-based arts lobbying group, the coalition smartly asked Congress to pass a reform bill that acknowledges the unique difficulties artists confront in obtaining healthcare. “Like others who have fallen through the cracks [...]

What if you died knowing that people were gonna talk about you after you’re dead. And you were able, when dead, to come back invisible and see how people had fucked up all the details, gotten all the people mixed up, making you look better, more adjusted and with better manners. Would you be glad [...]

Anyone on West 23rd street in New York City can now see a theatre facade redesigned (and nearly completed) by Milton Glaser, the famous designer commissioned by the School of the Visual Arts.

Has your Duane Hanson or Damien Hirst gone the way of all flesh? So far, in spite of our best efforts, nothing seems to last forever. Not even plastic. Read more…

Cell-phones are especially good at catching spontaneous moments. Even professionals find it cumbersome to carry around large SLR cameras and lenses (they don’t fit in your pocket, and they’re not much fun at many social events). However, cell phones are in nearly everyone’s pocket, and getting to know their limitations can allow for certain captures [...]

If you’re in New York next Friday, please join us for this art exhibition, organized by Scott Malbaurn: Forever Summer Opening: Friday, June 26 at 6:00 pm Hosted by: Denise Bibro Fine Art, PLATFORM 529 West 20th St, 4W New York, NY T: 212.647.7030 map Platform, the project space of Denise Bibro Fine Art, presents [...]

Sebastião Salgado’s work is a remarkable fusion of journalism and art, encompassing the darkest moments of our collective behavior while preserving the dignity of individuals at odds with the forces around them.

I’m pleased to have had five of my photographs (including Long Island City, Queens #3, above) selected for F-Stop Magazine’s group exhibit “Excerpts from Portfolios“. Contributors include 42 photographers from across the globe. Check it out.

Yoko Ono talks about the 40th anniversary of the Montreal bed-in.

Jorge Colombo drew this week’s cover using Brushes, an application for the iPhone, while standing for an hour outside Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in Times Square.

The Obamas are sending ripples through the art world as they put the call out to museums, galleries and private collectors that they’d like to borrow modern art by African-American, Asian, Hispanic and female artists for the White House. In a sharp departure from the 19th-century still lifes, pastorals and portraits that dominate the White [...]