Jason Jacques Gallery will present an upcoming exhibition in partnership with the Last Prisoner Project. Titled SMOKE, the exhibition centers on a 19th century smoking set made by the French jeweler Boucheron. The piece is a beautiful, somewhat rarefied, highly decorative, and yet functional art object with a complex history that is relevant to many of the issues encountered today attitudes towards the idea of "intoxication" as well a pervasive fear of, yet inexplicable attraction .
The small town of Star will be aglow with fiery fun during Firefest at STARworks, Friday and Saturday, April 1 and 2. Firefest is a two-day festival celebrating the role
The small town of Star will be aglow with fiery fun during Firefest at STARworks, Friday and Saturday, April 1 and 2. Firefest is a two-day festival celebrating the role
SFA Advisory opens its inaugural summer exhibition, Ridiculous Sublime
Exterior, SFA Advisory, Ridiculous Sublime. Photo by Erik Bardin.
NEW YORK, NY
.-SFA Advisory, Lisa Schiffs Tribeca outpost, announces its inaugural summer exhibition, Ridiculous Sublime, running through Labor Day. Featuring 50 international artists, Schiff transformed her permanent ground-floor office at 45 White Street into a temporary exhibition space as part of her commitment to exploring nascent tendencies which appear across the globe.
In 1757, Edmund Burke published A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful wherein he defined the sublime as an artistic effect productive of the strongest emotion the mind is capable of feeling. Elsewhere, the sublime has been used to describe a natural event that inspires awe and terror through sheer immensity. Beauty and awe are where the sublime in art usually lands, and often it consists of representations of Mother Nature wi