THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
David LaChapelle
The Paul Kasmin Gallery in Chelsea happens to reside next door to the nightclub Marquee. This meant the opening of photographer David LaChapelle's show "American Jesus" Tuesdsay coincided with the launch party for the soundtrack to MTV's "Jersey Shore." You...
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ITALIAN VOGUE
David LaChapelle
All of his closest friends were there last night, in New York at the High Line Room of the Standard Hotel, to celebrate the opening of the latest David Lachapelle exhibition/provocation. American Jesus is the name of the exhibition, which is a collection...
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WOMEN'S WEAR DAILY
David LaChapelle
The name David LaChapelle may be synonymous with celebrity portraiture (he's shot everyone from Lady Gaga to Hillary Rodham Clinton during his 30-year career), but, as the 47-year-old photographer proudly notes, his surname, French for "the chapel," is Huguenot in origin...
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THE NEW YORK OBSERVER
David LaChapelle
For years, David LaChapelle made his living and his reputation as a fashion photographer known for outlandish images of celebrities (and later, friends) like Paris Hilton and Pamela Anderson. Rising to the top of the magazine heap-he photographed everyone from Madonna and...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mark Ryden
Fathered by figures like Big Daddy Roth and Robert Williams, a movement affectionately called Lowbrow by its adherents has been percolating out of the quasi-underground pop culture of Southern California since the 1970's. Lowbrow paintings typically feature illustrative technique and comically...
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INTERVIEW MAGAZINE
Mark Ryden
You don't have to invent a movement to be considered its ambassador; you just have to be the best at it - or at least its most popular practitioner. And painter Mark Ryden, whose first major solo show in seven years, "The Gay 90s Olde Tyme Art Show," opened last week at Paul Kasmin Gallery, has...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES STYLE MAGAZINE
Mark Ryden
Attention amateur butchers, meat lovers and hungry aesthetes: At the Paul Kasmin Gallery, the artist Mark Ryden is doing wonders with off cuts at his new show, "The Gay 90's: Olde Tyme Art Show." The paintings of a Gibson girl riding a bicycle built for two with Jesus and a brooding beauty in period ...
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THE DAILY BEAST
Mark Ryden
Sweet Wishes, an animated short by Mark Ryden and his wife, Marion Peck, offers a succinct insight into a 47-year-old artist's surreal aesthetic.
The film opens upon an adorable girl, perhaps 5 years old, and her two companions, one being either a baby or a highly naturalistic doll, the other a teddy bear in the ...
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TIME OUT NEW YORK
Simon Hantaï
In 1960, the French Conceptualist painter Simon Hantaï (1922-2008) invented pliage, a method of painting in which he folded, crumpled, tied and trampled upon his canvases before applying pigment to the areas left exposed. Greatly influenced by Jackson Pollock's drip compositions, these works were neither...
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ARTINFO
Mattia Bonetti
NEW YORK-Mattia Bonetti is receiving a double dose of recognition this month with a new show of his elegant art furniture on view at Paul Kasmin Gallery and a new monograph from Skria Rizzoli that calls for a fresh take on the designer, who is best known in America for the quirky wrought-iron pieces he...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mattia Bonetti
Here's a show that might brighten your mood in these dark economic times. Either that or the glossy spectacle of Mattia Bonetti's conspicuously expensive-looking furniture will make you want to start a Communist revolution. With and insouciant disregard for...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mattia Bonetti
MATTIA BONETTI is a soft-spoken, Swiss-born, Paris-dwelling designer who makes very loud furniture: lozenge-shape tables and consoles of lacquered fiberglass that resemble ribbon candy; a patinated bronze chair with a furry Drano-blue hide seat...
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THE NEW YORK TIMES
Mattia Bonetti
If it's December, this must be Miami. Along with the art world, which flies south for Art Basel (Dec. 3-6), design aficionados head there for Design Miami which runs from today (the invitation-only opening) to Dec. 5. This year's mood: cautious optimism. For dealers in contemporary design, 2009 has been ...
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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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