Noah Baumbach Plays Curator for Photographer Tod Papageorge s Santa Monica Exhibit
Danzinger Gallery/Photos by Papageorge
Noah Baumbach curated a selection of Tod Papageorge’s Acropolis photos.
For the show, which runs through May 27 at Santa Monica’s Bergamot Station, Baumbach selected 16 images from the lensman’s Acropolis photo series, shot during the summers of 1983 and 84.
In March 2020, James Danziger launched an exhibition of famed photographer Tod Papageorge s Acropolis photographs at his Danziger Gallery on Fifth Avenue in New York City. The gallerist was excited to mount the show not only because he s a fan of Papageorge an influential figure in photography who served as director of Yale s graduate photography program for more than 30 years but also because it was to be the first exhibition after bringing Papageorge into the Danziger fold from another gallery.
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“Every time I get a job, I’ve got this funny feeling that it might be my very last job,” Jim Krantz says during a recent phone interview about life as a commercial and fine art photographer in the pandemic age.
With a solid reputation in the business and a portfolio of returning clients, Krantz represents a class of artists not broken but still shaken by COVID-19. Still, he says that it was genuinely scary when work began drying up in March last year. That’s what makes a new exhibition of his work at Danziger at Fetterman gallery particularly satisfying.
Locals invited to COVID memorial event Monday
Feb. 27, 2021 at 6:00 am
COVID-19 has touched the lives of Americans from coast to coast since the first casualty was recorded last March. To honor those who have lost their life or a loved one from COVID, community members have planned a COVID Memorial Day event at Bergamot Station Monday afternoon.
The local event occurring at the Building Bridges Art Exchange from noon to 3 p.m. is part of a larger grassroots effort that began with the organization #MarkedByCovid, which was co-founded by Arizona resident Kristin Urquiza after her father died from COVID.
“She created this organization with all of these volunteers who work on different causes relating to government and community action,” Santa Monica resident Carolyn Freyer-Jones said. “And now, she’s leading up a charge to create a national COVID Memorial Day.”
Recently, English shared with me his reflections on our current moment, how art has changed over the past several decades, and why generalizations of Black art are so problematic.
You are very keen on the problems of generalization within the art world with regards to how African American art is taught, critiqued, and discussed. What is your biggest problem with these generalizations? How, in your opinion, can historians work to remove and/or reduce their use of generalizing?
My issue with generalization is that it feels an irresponsible way to respond to art’s diversity and specificity. If you understand art as something different from yourself, as the work of another consciousness, then it is very hard to generalize about it. Art reflects the immense variation in the field of experience, offers us opportunities to explore and come to terms with that plenitude. Accounts of art that suppress variation, that are nonchalant about those precious opportunities, need to be resisted.
UpdatedTue, Feb 16, 2021 at 10:40 am PT
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Red roses from the Rose River Memorial honor the lives lost to coronavirus. (Courtesy of Rose River Memorial)
ORANGE COUNTY, CA It s time to grieve, artist Marcos Lutyens explains.
It started with just a few handmade, red felt roses, but the Rose River Memorial has now grown to signify the thousands who have died in the coronavirus pandemic.
Each rose represents a life, a loved one lost to coronavirus on Los Angeles Westside. Each rose symbolizes a memory and tribute behind a heartbreaking loss.
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The installation will be featured on March 1 at the Orange County Museum of Art, 1661 W Sunflower Ave., Santa Ana.