We are now well into summer and its slowness. Heat. Last month we celebrated Our Seventh Year Anniversary. Now into the Feast of the Assumption. And we continue.
Welcome to the 152nd edition of Prescriptions. Here is our guide to current events in the arts.
Maureen Dougherty
Maureen Dougherty
Maureen Dougherty plays with the push and pull between innocence and maturity – deliberately blurring the two in renderings that serve as commentary on the state of media and contemporary culture. On view through August 30, 2024 at Blum.
Gregory Crewdson
Gregory Crewdson: Retrospective
Gregory Crewdson is one of the world’s most renowned photographers. Since the mid-1980s, Crewdson has been using the backdrop of small American towns and film sets to create, like a director, technically brilliant and colourfully seductive photographs that focus on human isolation and the abysses of society. On view through September 8, 2024 at Albertina.
Bill Phelps / MOTOGRAPHIKA
MOTOGRAPHIKA
Recently released in a new series, Bill Phelps has launched MOTOGRAPHIKA, a treasure trove of vintage motorcycle marvels, shot in large format 8 x 10 cross process Polaroid analogue film and immortalized in timeless compositions and presented in signed and authenticated classic poster format.
Joqtau by Aruan Anartay, 2024
77 Locarno Film Festival
The 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival is set to be as bold, innovative, and vibrant as ever, with a program that will see cinema engaged in conversations with its present, history, and future, as well as with other art forms. Closing tomorrow, August 17, 2024.
Cristina De Middel, An Obstacle in the Way [Una Piedra en el Camino], Journey to the center series, 2021 / Courtesy of the artist/Magnum Photos
Rencontres d’Arles 2024
Tremors and turmoil, spirits, traces, parallel readings and rereadings all constitute new perspectives underlying the 2024 edition of the Rencontres d’Arles. Photographers, artists and curators reveal their visions and stories, not least that of our humanity, by turns thwarted, in endless redefinition, resilient, but also visionary. Through September 29, 2024.
Still picture from Floating Heart – for Orlando, The Videobook. Sigita Mikalauskaitė performing Flowers
Individual Body, Collective Body
From the Latin corpus “complex, organism,” the Italian word corpo is a generic term that identifies any type of limited portion of matter, capable of extension, divisibility, impenetrability. In Conversation with Gianna Valenti, by Chiara Causo.
Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND / Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale / 60th Edition
The 60th International Art Exhibition, titled Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, will continue through November 24, 2024, at the Giardini and the Arsenale. Curated by Adriano Pedrosa and organised by La Biennale di Venezia.
Paul P., Untitled, 2016 / Courtesy the artist and collection of Joe Friday and Grant Jameson, Ottawa © the artist.
Jimmy DeSana & Paul P.: Ruins of Rooms
The resulting exhibition functions like a matryoshka doll, expanding our understanding of portraiture through an overlapping conversation between different generations, an ode to a lost generation. By Beatrice Sacco. Through October 20, 2024 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
Our 7th Year Anniversary
Last month we rounded out our seventh year with over 5,000 pages of Articles, Profiles, and Announcements in our growing archive and over 5 million visits strong. A very exciting journey it has been, indeed. With our seventh year anniversary Prescription, we continue to move forward.
