RISD MFA Photography Show at ClampArt

Six students put on an interactive show in an intimate Chelsea gallery space

The Rhode Island School of Design 2013 MFA Graduate Show opened last night at the ClampArt gallery in Chelsea. The show is comprised of the work of six RISD graduate students whose photography is as offbeat as it is engaging. Though each photographer’s series is very different, a sense of depth overwhelms every photo and pulls the collection together, keeping viewers engaged with each piece …

Ellen Gallagher: Don’t Axe Me

Meticulous layering breaks through the canvas to reinvent visual contexts and explore future possibilities in the New Museum exhibition

by LinYee Yuan Those familiar with the work of American artist Ellen Gallagher often view her delicate works on paper and canvas through the lens of racial and gender politics—Gallagher’s “DeLuxe” series famously abstracted African-American beauty and style advertisements from the ’50s with layers of yellow plasticine and carefully excised bits of paper. But in “Don’t Axe Me,” Ellen Gallagher’s first major museum exhibition in …

The Guggenheim App

The iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum launches a mobile app to coincide with the opening of artist James Turrell's solo exhibition

Replacing the embarrassingly bulky recorder and headset once required for an audio tour, the Guggenheim’s new mobile app comes flush with insightful information, images and video to enhance past and present art exhibitions held in the iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed museum. While the Guggenheim isn’t the first to use the mobile platform—the MoMA introduced their own app in May of 2012, for example—the launch comes …