

Portraits of the Self as Tickets to Paradise
David Antonio Cruz, “bybeingcarefulofthecompanyyoukeep” (2016), oil on wood panel, 48 x 48 in (image courtesy the Artist and Gateway Projects) What does it mean to be “in heaven” in our moment in time? It’s such a personally customizable phrase that could refer to a range of physical, emotional, intellectual experiences. The Look up here, I’m in heaven exhibition at BRIC takes a position with regard to the idea of being in paradise that’s profoundly about corporeal materialit


RAG FACE AT YOSSI MILO GALLERY
RAG FACE AT YOSSI MILO GALLERY © Yoon Ji Seon, Rag face #37 and Rag face #38, 2012 / Courtesy Yossi Milo Gallery, New York Yossi Milo Gallery presented Rag Face, an exhibition of sewn photographs by Korean artist Yoon Ji Seon. The exhibition opened Friday, October 23 and will be on view through Saturday, December 5, 2015. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States. Image above: © Monika Piatkiewicz Featured in Yoon’s inaugural exhibition at the Gallery wi


About the cover - Yoon Ji Seon: Rag face
Photography is as leveling as a baseball bat in a room full of fine china. A globalized technology almost from birth, wherever it appeared it rearranged the cultural furniture, flattening native traditions of representation and following the same trajectory of development : from early experiments to pictorialist atmosphere to sharp-edged modernism and, as transmission expanded, to a transactional currency driven by social media. Yet local influences interrupt the diffusion

Paris Photo takes the medium out of the frame
Experimental works, including images reproduced on shoes, pictures covered in embroidery and mangled and burned prints, appeal to contemporary collectors The fair Paris Photo at the Grand Palais in Paris, which opened its doors to the public yesterday and runs until 16 November, presents a remarkable quality of photographic works, from Black Canyon by Edward Steichen, 1907, offered for $850,000 by Hans P. Kraus, New York, to a 1979 portrait of Francis Bacon by Richard Avedon