Two things have been pissing me off lately. The first is where the fuck are my socks? Honestly. Where are they? But we’ll talk about that another day. The second is it seems like every time I pick something up to wear it (off the floor) some member of my team of art supplies has found its way over to the cloths section of my floor and stained my new Muji T. I had decided that this was objectively bad and made my life sadder and less fulfilling. I was wrong. I just got served by Fernando Brizio. These little dresses are kinda mod and dare I say, chic. Plus, the owner can even clean the dress and then change the colors the next time they wear it! Form and function. holler. K$
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Filed under: ART, CULTURE | Tags: ART, CULTURE, fine art, john currin, kehinde wiley, painting, portraiture, studio museum, yale, yale school of art
Some of you may think it priggish, but I love portraiture. And I also love pretty much every painter to come out of Yale in the last 15 years. I don’t know what they’re feeding these people–probably carrots–but damn. Kehinde Wiley, whose “World Stage” series is being exhibited in a solo show at the Studio Museum in Harlem right now, does incredible nouveau-18th and 19th century Realist portraiture of young black men set against ornate baroque and Art and Crafts-era backdrops.
Let’s be honest, the subject matter is pretty damn political, but I’m interested in the way artists, like Wiley or John Currin, use this hyper-technical, finesse-y mode to take their shit to that meta level, where you start thinking about the classicism of the form as being a statement in itself. Because if it doesn’t blow your mind on multiple levels of consciousness, then it’s not even worth looking at. DUH! HALEY
