I’ll ceaselessly be a bit bit cross with whoever invented the idea of a number of journal covers – every challenge needs to be definitive dammit – and Port don’t assist issues a lot by making all of theirs bloody beautiful. They’ve made it a bit simpler with the brand new challenge, as one in all them is graced by this Jai Odell portrait of Taika Waititi, enrobed by some splendidly scrappy hand-lettering. Good.
There’s some beautiful work on this 12 months’s Taylor Wessing Picture Portrait Prize. Inconceivable to choose a favorite, however this one from Zoja Kalinovskis’ Unseen collection is sort of stunning. The exhibition is on on the shiny and new Nationwide Portrait Gallery till the tip of February. Most likely my favorite London gallery, I can’t wait to get down there and take a look at what they’ve performed to the place.
I think the anodyne glassy show of a pc doesn’t do justice to Korean artist Jungjin Lee’s images of the American West. At the moment on present on the Howard Greenberg Gallery in New York, Lee’s photographs get their distinctive look and texture by being printed on conventional hand-made hanji paper. Briefly, I needs to the touch them.
It at all times comes round so shortly; it’s Aesthetica Brief Movie Competition time right here in York. A part of this 12 months’s occasion is poster exhibition held at Streetlife on Coney Avenue. I’ll be making y manner down there this weekend, largely to understand this terrific Matt Needle design for Natalie Cubides-Brady’s The Veiled Metropolis.
Speaking of film posters, I’m compiling my annual evaluation of the 12 months’s finest for Artistic Assessment. Though I’ve already acquired a heaving shortlist, each time I do that there’s at all times one thing obscure that comes out of the woodwork that blows me away – final 12 months, Derek Gabryszak’s design for Tramps! fully stole my coronary heart. So for those who’ve seen any notably splendid posters this 12 months, let me know.
It in all probability says extra about me than her, however I did a double take on the image of Jenny Holzer from 1984 – “oh she’s trying up from her telephone and … wait a second.” From Jeannette Montgomery Barron’s fabulous collection of black and white portraits of artists in Downtown New York within the Eighties, together with the likes of Warhol, Haring, Sherman, Basquiat, Mapplethorpe, the entire gang.
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Banner: screenshot from The Veiled Metropolis by Natalie Cubides-Brady.
