BORDER @ Davis Museum

Michal Rovner: Border

DAVIS MUSEUM AND CULTURAL CENTER
Wellesley, MA
March 11 - June 14, 2009



“This is not a true story.” Thus begins the seminal art video Border, which Michal Rovner shot along the boundary between Israel and Lebanon during 1996-1997.

An Israeli commander and the artist herself are the film’s two central characters. As they attempt to enter each other’s worlds, two narratives emerge. One concerns the actual political and physical border—the beautiful, rocky landscape; soldiers and civilians who populate it; and tense atmosphere. The other follows Rovner’s relationship with the commander, whose movements she chronicles and who participates in creating the film. (press release excerpt)

Alessandra Sanguinetti visits Art in Context

In March 2009 Art in Context at the Art Institute of Boston hosted a talk with Alessandra Sanguinetti, which was one of the highlights of this year's visiting artist series. Alessandra was truly inspiring, insightful and gracious when she shared her experiences as one of the leading contemporary photographers.

She recently received the Peabody Award 2009.


Alessandra Sanguinetti speaks to Art in Context, March 2009















































Bonnie Robinson and Alessandra Sanguinetti, Art Institute of Boston, March 2009

THE EDGE OF VISION Abstraction in Contemporary Photography

Curated by Lyle Rexer

Aperture Gallery
547 West 27th Street, 4th Floor
Between 10th and 11th Avenues
New York, New York

May 15 to July 9, 2009



Talk and book signing with Lyle Rexer:
Tuesday, June 16, 6:30 pm

Aperture Gallery presents The Edge of Vision: Abstraction in Contemporary Photography, curated by Lyle Rexer. From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent popularity reveals much about the medium. The Edge of Vision showcases the work of nineteen contemporary photographers who base their practice in some form of abstraction. Rexer defines abstraction as “a departure from or the eliding of an immediately apprehensible subject.” Within this broad definition, a host of approaches explore aspects of the photographic experience, including the chemistry of traditional photography, the mediation of lenses, the direct capture of light without a camera, temporal extensions, digital sampling of found images, radical cropping, and various deliberate destabilizations of photographic reference.

Going Softly Into a Parallel Universe / NYT

By Carol Kino for the New York Times


Claes Oldenburg at the Whitney Museum, where two exhibitions of his work are on view.
Photograph by Evan Sung/ NYT

IN 1961, early in his career, the Pop artist Claes Oldenburg wrote a manifesto: “I am for an art that grows up not knowing it is art at all. I am for an artist who vanishes.”

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Art Review | Claes Oldenburg
A Low-Cost Show Reinflates a Big Bag
By Kareen Rosenberg for the New York Times


Soft Shuttlecocks, Falling, Number Two, 1995
Claes Oldenburg


Giant Fagends, 1967
Claes Oldenburg

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NYT introduces LENS

Lens is a new photojournalism blog that presents some of the most interesting visual and multimedia reporting. It will be a showcase for the work of New York Times photographers, and will highlight great images from other news organizations and from around the Web.