THE SUNDAY BUSINESS POST
Embracing the Image
David LaChapelle's extraordinary photographs, featured over the following pages, have come to Dublin in a new exhibition, American Jesus.
Two minutes into our conversation, it's clear that David laChapelle is a charmer. But while he's a clean-cut, in-his-prime, all-American alpha male, he is defined by neither charm nor good looks. If there are artists who capture the zeitgeist, he belongs to the tiny elite that creates the blueprint for the zeitgeist...
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THE IRISH TIMES
Artist looks to Dark Ages and famous faces
It could be a metaphor for our times and a symbol of home, or it might seel like balasphemous pornography. Some may wonder whether it's pop culture or high art, and many will go through David LaChapelle's exhibition, which opened last night, picking out the famous faces appearing in scenes that seem to have sprung from Renaissance paintings by way of Vogue...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Barry Flanagan
Barry Flanagan, a British sculptor who abandoned the idiosyncratic arrangements of common materials that characterized Postminimal sculpture to make sly if relatively traditional bronzes of exuberant, loose-limbed hares, died on Aug. 31 in Ibiza, Spain. He was 68 and had homes and studios in Ibiza and Dublin...
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VILLAGE VOICE
'Naked!' at Paul Kasmin Gallery
Let's face it, one of the great joys of art viewing is the opportunity to check out people with no clothing on. Curated by adrian dannatt, this expansive exhibition strips off the pretensions of the idealized nude to get at the unadomed naughty bits, with images of naked females in Kasmin's main gallery as well as those of men...
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FINANCIAL TIMES
Street Cred
The artful sculptural oeuvre of Claude and her late husband Francois-Xavier Lalanne is about to go on display on Park Avenue, Manhattan. From September 13, eight of the French couple's monumental sculptures, including a riotous copper and bronze cabbage sporting chicken feet and a flock of 12 bronze sheep, will make up the first large outdoor Lalanne exhibition in the US...
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TIME OUT NEW YORK
Naked!
"Naked!" isn't your typical summer group show fare. Art critic and curator Adrian Dannatt seperates the meaning of naked from that of nude in his manifesto-cum-press-release for this provocative exhibition. In his eyes, and most likely those of viewers, naked is more arousing...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Naked!
Although it includes images of men, a more accurate title than "Naked!" for this entertainingly lubricious show would be "Naked Women of Child-Bearing Age." A large part of the show's appeal is its eclecticism. The 44 works selected by the independent curator Adrien Dannatt and the gallery's proprietor, Paul Kasmin, range from a sweetly comical painting of the river god Alpheus chasing the rather zaftig nymph Arethusa, by Moyses van Uyttenbroeck, from around 1626, to Walter Robinson's 2009 painting of a woman whose soles occupy most of the foreground...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Lalannes on Park
A life-size flock of sheep and, appropriately, a big apple more than eight feet tall are coming to Park Avenue this fall, along with a bronze bunny, a seated monkey and a giant owl, the work of the French artists Claude and Francois-Xavier Lalanne. Although they were married 41 years, the two largely worked independently of each other. Now, from Sept. 13 through Nov. 20, their animal menagerie will adorn the meridians between 52nd and 57th Streets...
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