kurt kauperPeople didn't really ask the question so much as assume that I'm gay. If a woman paints another woman in the nude, it would be interpreted as a painting having to do with a woman's identity. But when a man paints this painting, it's associated with homoerotic activity.
He is in fact straight and lives in New York City with his wife and two children.
apartmento magazinegood reading! thanks! :)

jeff barkmichael hoppen contemporary
The much-anticipated new series of work by Jeff Bark, Woodpecker, is full of dark romanticism. Under the cover of a manufactured night, his young subjects indulge in skinny-dipping, huffing, smoking pot, and moments of introspection echoing Bark’s own memories of his near adulthood.
jeff bark
stilnvoPair of standing lamps, c. 1950s
Bronze, painted steel, marble base.Manufactured by Stilnovo, Italy. 196 cm. (77 3/4 in.) high.
Christoph Ruckhäberle: DessinsInstallation view, Sutton Lane, Paris
7 February - 4 March 2009
lisa yuskavage, 2009david zwirner
"Yuskavage has sunk her erotic smurfs into a lime green never-never land that veers a little too close to the juvenile tastes of Michael Jackson's Ranch Art collection, about to go up for auction. Little people journey into the forest past giant Cabbage Patch dolls with pulsating clits. Some of them have come on their faces , or perhaps it's whipped cream." charlie finch

photograpy blog,
with good music!

pastel white


stephen shore (all images)last image is of sunset and labrea! for everyone in los angles. can you believe it?
Shore embarked on a series of cross-country trips, making "on the road" photographs of American and Canadian landscapes. In 1972, he made the journey from Manhattan to Amarillo, Texas, that provoked his interest in color photography. Viewing the streets and towns he passed through, he conceived the idea to photograph them in color, first using 35mm and then an 4x5" view camera before finally settling on the 8x10 format.
david cressey
matt lipps
matt lipps
unknown
Michaël BorremansDavid Zwirner is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings and films by Belgian artist Michaël Borremans. This is the first time the artist’s films will be shown in the United States, and is also the world premier of Taking Turns.


dalton rooney"One thing that I have noticed about working in the landscape is that it takes time to become familiar with a new place. My first photographs from a particular location are full of excitement and new ideas, but it can take subsequent visits to develop those ideas into something that takes advantage of the unique characteristics of the place. I have visited some of my now-favorite locations three or four times before the good pictures begin to happen."
andrew birdnoble beast 2009
like to whistle?
come along. its a good ride.
Andrew Bird's barn is so far from the river and towns that he can't get radio reception here. He doesn't even have coyotes for company since he got rid of his chickens.
It's the perfect isolation in which to nurture a unique musical vision. The whistle - something his grandma taught him as a kid, and which winds a curious, melancholy thread through his records - is the perfect motif for a solitary man communing with his muse.
melanie schiffi want to feel some/the/any/kind magic
holcombe waller
take me away.1st dibs!