Tongue very much in cheek, Calgary-born, now New York-based, painter Attila Richard Lukacs offered recent work, continuing his powerfully painted, affecting odyssey of gay life. The thirty-five-year-old Lukacs, who came to New York in 1996 after spending ten years in…
Employing loom techniques to photographs
Employing loom techniques to photographs, Louise Noguchi, in four works from her 1995 series, Compilation Portraits, weaves tiny squares of complete photographs of either murderers or murder victims into those of auto-portraits. She therefore offers a persuasive disavowal of one…
The Return of the Real
Hal Foster, The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century, Cambridge, MA, London, UK: MIT Press, 1996, 300 pp., ill. b. & w. This collection of seven essays, none of which are reprints, charts the…