By Nick Stillman | Pelican Bomb From the digital revolution all the way back to when photography was so primitive that an “operator” needed to affix a portrait sitter’s head to the back of a chair with an iron clamp, the beauty and trouble of the medium has always been its sequential possibility: take a… Read More
By D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly Click here to read the article on Gambit Weekly’s website. Visual art has long been concerned with realism – the accurate depiction of the “real” world around us – but now, thanks to digital photography, the Internet and cellphone cameras, we live in a world filled with images… Read More
By Lianna Patch | NOLA Defender Click here to read the article on NOLA Defender’s website. Now open at the New Orleans Museum of Art: an exhibit that will blow your mind, frustrate, confuse, elevate, and overwhelm you. “Lifelike,” on loan until January 27, 2013, from the Walker Art Center in Minnesota, is a multimedia… Read More
On view November 11 to January 27, Lifelike explores the boundaries between the real and fabricated in the work of over 50 artists from around the globe. Artists featured in the exhibition Include Andy Warhol, Ai Weiwei, Charles Ray, James Casebere, Thomas Demand, Susan Collins, and Vija Clemins. Get first looks at Likelike during NOMA’s… Read More
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune November 08, 2012 Click here to see the full article with images. “Lifelike,” the big new exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art, is an amusement park of brain-teasing optical deceptions. The weirdness starts the minute you step through the museum’s bronze doors. Let your eyes scan… Read More