If you’ve been reading my features here for a while, you know I have a few pet peeves when it comes to costume jewelry terminology. It’s not just a matter of being a stickler as a seller; I also appreciate the attention to detail as a buyer. I touched on one often misused phrase in 3 Earmarks of “High-end” Costume Jewelry. I’ll get to another hot-button term, “Gripoix,” in another feature. For now, I’m focusing on one that should be self-explanatory but apparently isn’t. I’m talking about “runway.” While some jewelry is marketed as “high-end,” only a fraction truly qualifies.…
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Art MarketAnnabel KeenanWhether you buy art for your home or admire it in galleries and museums, establishing your taste is a personal journey. Some enthusiasts may be inspired by an artwork’s meaning or the artist’s story, embracing a message that resonates with them or perhaps challenges their own viewpoints. Others might be guided by factors like aesthetics and an artist’s market to help shape their preferences. And for some, the process is purely intuitive. With countless commercial galleries, museums, and nonprofits worldwide, as well as informative publications and increasingly accessible platforms like social media, there are ample venues to view…
Artist Lowkey Lyss creates nostalgic woodcut artworks out of their home studio in Decatur. (Photographs by Isadora Pennington) Buzz, click. Lowkey reached down and switched on the light extruding from the face of PPG HOTLINE. The wall hanging sculpture resembles a vintage Fisher-Price Chatter Phone and features a rubbery coiled phone cord that moves when touched. The phone’s cheerful face, illuminated by its shining lightbulb nose, reflected the morning light that streamed in through the windows of the space. This is artist Lowkey Lyss’ home studio. Located in an apartment complex in Decatur, it offers polished concrete floors and tall…
Pace Gallery has announced its representation of the German painter Friedrich Kunath. The gallery will mount a solo exhibition for the artist at its New York space this fall and will feature a new painting in its booth at Art Basel next month. Kunath has gained traction for his paintings of ethereal landscapes, which often feature poetic phrases and quotes from film and music. The artist draws from a variety of visual influences, including German Romanticism and the Hudson River School. He approaches his work with an idiosyncratic combination of irony and sincerity, bringing in personal references and interests, from…
No kind of Hollywood movie is more beloved and more reviled than a sequel. People say they’re sick of rehashes of the same stories and characters; they bemoan the lack of originality in film and pine for the good ol’ days when the studios put more resources into creating new intellectual properties instead of repeatedly strip mining the same old ones.That’s what they say. Then you go and look at the annual lists of box-office hits and you see, contrary to those complaints, that sequels almost always rate at or near the top. The four biggest movies of 2024 were sequels — Inside Out 2, Deadpool &…
“For relief you can trust, trust Tylenol. Hospitals do.” — From a 1981 TV commercial for Tylenol. In the second episode of the three-part Netflix true crime documentary series “Cold Case: The Tylenol Murders,” James Lewis fiddles with a box of Extra Strength Tylenol some four decades after he became the prime suspect in the case, and says to the off-camera filmmakers, “You think I’m going to open this and get my fingerprints all over?” His face masked in a kind of semi-rictus grin, Lewis struggles with the foil seal on the bottle, noting, “It’s pretty well sealed…Everyone opens a…
John Carpenter’s “Starman” has lodged itself in my consciousness since I first saw it in 1984. I was eleven that Christmas, and there has not been a year in the last forty that I haven’t revisited this film at least once. It is, in many ways, the perfect film in my eyes – one that satisfies my desire for emotional catharsis, that reminds me of an America that aspired to knowledge for its own sake, that sees love as complex and painful but worth it all the same. I forgive it everything. It is a well of nostalgia for me,…
Even great writers are being defeated by the epidemic of bloated streaming series. Look no further than Netflix’s “Dept. Q,” adapted from the series of books by Jussi Adler-Olsen by none other than the brilliant Scott Frank, the certified genius behind “Out of Sight,” “Logan,” “Godless,” and “The Queen’s Gambit.” The man is one of our best living writers, but even he is brought down by stretching what could have easily been a feature-length film of plot into a nine-hour mystery. His skill with dialogue and character, along with an excellent ensemble, keep “Dept. Q” from completely falling apart, but…
Cig Harvey’s ‘Emerald Drifters’ is on view at Jackson Fine Art through June 28. (Photos courtesy of Jackson Fine Art) A pitch-black background dominates the composition. In the lower third, a small circular cake rests on a platter, its edifice heavily ornamented by cherries and rose petals and topped with still-lit candles slowly consuming themselves. The Red Cake, Rockport (2023) is the most powerful artwork in Cig Harvey’s solo exhibition Emerald Drifters at Jackson Fine Art, not only because of its dramatic composition but because it beautifully describes the central theme of this show: Color, in all its hues, is…
Last month, I encountered a piece of institutional history—a disused piece of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s exterior—within the galleries of the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. This dirtied window once appeared in the Met’s Michael C. Rockefeller Wing, where it was meant to guard hallowed Oceanic artifacts from the sunlight that spilled in. Artist Gala Porras-Kim has put it on view in her current solo exhibition, appropriating the slanted glass pane as an artwork. Within the Met’s galleries, this human-size window previously aided in creating a sense of majesty. But at the Carnegie, it looks more like the…
