A show of work by Hannah Wilke and Eve Hesse at Acquavella Galleries raises the intriguing question: What constitutes erotic art as perceived by the female gaze?
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A striking c. 1960 John Hardy silk screen promotional poster advertising Delta Airlines service to Florida. The image is dramatically silkscreened in 5 colors (yellow, brown, purple, light blue, red, black). It highlights Delta destinations, including Tampa, Jacksonville, West Palm Beach, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami. The map of Florida is overlaid with images of scuba divers, sunbathing beauties, and a gentleman playing golf.
Delta Screen Print PostersIn the late 1950s and early 1960, Delta Airlines contracted artist John Hardy to produce a series of revolutionary and dramatic multi-color screen print posters highlighting their top destinations. The posters as a series exhibited dramatic design, emphasized by strong, striking color blocks. Due to their fine execution, high quality hand printing, and intense design ethic, these posters are today highly sought after by collectors and heavily reproduced. Originals nonetheless are extremely rare and the Florida poster i
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Frieze New York 2021 opens at The Shed, May 5-9.
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Frieze New York Returns Live, Bringing Hope and Precautions
Now a hybrid affair, booths at the Shed at Hudson Yards will be home to optimistic dealers and fresh art.
The Shed, the arts center in Hudson Yards on the west side of Manhattan (at center), is this year’s home of Frieze New York. Credit.Nina Westervelt for The New York Times
May 4, 2021
Until March 2020, major art fairs were primarily live events you had to be there, as they say. Then fairs sensibly went virtual during the pandemic, with online offerings instead of rows of booths under a tent or in an exhibition hall.