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The revolving hotel room that's part of theanyspacewhatever exhibit at the Guggenheim isn't the only noteworthy work on view at the moment; through January the museum is hosting a mid-career survey of Catherine Opie, who's known for her striking photographs of diverse subjects ranging from Minnesota ice fishers to the west coast L.G.B.T. community.
Her photographs of the ice houses were made in a particularly painstaking manner, with Opie braving inclement weather with a field camera loaded with 8 x 10-inch film. According to the Guggenheim website, "The extended set-up time, along with the period spent waiting for the proper conditions to align, lends these images a feeling of duration that echoes the hours spent waiting by the photographs’ subjects."
Tomorrow you can roam the entire museum at the Guggenheim's popular Art After Dark: First Fridays party, from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. This month's dance party is hosted by Baltimore duo Devlin & Darko (Spank Rock). It's $25 cash only at the door (get on line early!), and please remember to be respectful of the hotel guests who may be trying to sleep.
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WTF?
Self-Portrait/Nursing, WTF indeed.
Jesus H Christ
Well there goes my appetite for the evening.
Not to mention my boner for the week.
jebus!
That Aint Skim Milk!
The real Man Ray (not Wegman's dog) is turning
over in his great,If this is art I ain't going to
see it. Anyway it's another example of the
Narcissistic era we live in.
Maybe Lucus Samaras started this but his images
had interest and sometimes humor in it with his
Mad Polaroid SX 70 camera.
Moore digital crap from these new photogs if
even that is the word,Maybe she will show at
the Met museum with the crap there as well.
whoever this person is...don't quit your day job.
it's called composition...and your just plain clueless about it.
these photos are great. just wow.
omg i saw some boobs that weren't perfect wah wah wah
I don't think the problem is the "boobs that weren't perfect." These photographs are not very interesting, even when they should be. The portraits should be intimate and revealing, but they just look kind of clinical, boring, and as kapusta suggested, devoid of any composition. And there is nothing about that image of the ice fishing huts that suggests it took several hours to carefully set up the shot. It and the image of the surfers could both have been taken by a point-and-shoot tourist.
this is the kind of worthless shit that deserves to be in the New Museum
I'm finding it extremely difficult to masturbate to these pictures.
Internet Handle: It's a safe assumption that the previous commenters I was responding to, specifically 1-5 (and 12 after the fact), were not focusing on the composition of the photos, but on the weight of the woman in one particular photo.
Does anyone actually have a clue what these photographs are about?? It might be that they become more important based on their meaning rather than the fact that "they are not composed well."
If everybody made art the way some of you are describing it, we would have a large amount of boring art that all looks the same.
snoozefest.
Great photos.
Considering the impact desired, a rawness, a truth and an authenticity without overt manipulation, the photos are very effective.
I especially enjoyed the strength of "Jerome Caja", the power of the conflict between red and green that emphasized a defiance and pride.
I also enjoyed the blue/yellow colour companionship in "Untitled #1 (Icehouses)". (It is especially noticeable from a distance- take a look at the thumbnail.)
*(Yup "colour" -I'm Canadian- the word color with a little colour)
Too contrived, like edgy advertizing. She can play around all day with her limited vocabulary of signifiers but all we get for her efforts is another Rosie O'Donnell moment.
Self mutilation is not art. There is nothing about these photographs that is artistic.
I took a friend to see it and it really opened her mind as a straight woman. I like the straight forward 'we're here, we're queer, get over' effect of the photos.
For me, what was more interesting was her talk at the LGBT Community Center. She'd said it was her first time speaking in an LGBT space. And to hear her talk about her work and process was fascinating. I found this video on the Center blog of the event.
It is really worth watching (cut and paste) http://www.gaycenter.org/centerblog/2009-03-23-catherine-opie-explains-a-lesbian-washer-dryer/