From Carlos Miller’s excellent Photography Is Not a Crime blog we discover that the Transportation Security Administration has slapped its name on a poster that depicts a photographer in a threatening light. What is the TSA trying to say? I called to find out.
Over at MoMA, there are two big survey shows that focus on a single theme throughout the history of photography from the heyday of the daguerreotype through to the present. The first, Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography, is an “installation that comprises more than 200 works by approximately 120 artists.” The second is an examination of photography’s relationship to sculpture titled The Original Copy: The Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, that “brings together over 300 photographs, magazines, and journals, by more than 100 artists” … A good exhibition is not a numbers game. And in Pictures by Women, which is a little diffuse, it shows.
… new cargo regulations have some in the art world on edge … the New York Observer kisses up to the critic who ate any semblance of sanity … three newspapers are named the World’s Best Designed.
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j_d_hastings: Aha- This is perfect timing for me. I was just speaking to a friend about street art and informal public art engagement...
Veken: Really excited to see what you find out there!
Hrag Vartanian: Link doesn’t work … do you have another one?
Sina: Reminds us of www.exitart.org/public.exe?
Office Supplies: It seems like if you want it to be noticed, it has to look like art. Or it has to be documented, and the photo itself...
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