Photographs taken by the blind

Photographs taken by the blind

The L.A. Times’ Christopher Knight reviews “Sight Unseen,” an exhibition of photographs taken by legally blind photographers which is currently on view at UCR/California Museum of Photography. An excerpt from Knight’s review: “For making...
Photo by Helene Binet

Photo by Helene Binet

By now most people who are interested in architecture have learned that the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor has been named the 2009 Pritzker Architecture Prize Laureate.  I was psyched to hear this — I don’t know a whole lot about architecture, but I did do...
Saturday Night Art Seen

Saturday Night Art Seen

Someone alerted me to this photo they saw of me in the gossip column of ArtForum (better known as “Scene and Herd”) and I thought I would use it to illustrate the magic of cropping: There I am standing in front of that photograph at the opening of Walead...

Mapplethorpe Film & Panel Discussion this Weekend

There’s some interesting Robert Mapplethorpe-related programming happening this weekend at The Block Museum in conjunction with their Polaroids: Mapplethorpe exhibition. On Friday night, they’re screening “Still Moving,” one of only two films...
Photographer Bill Henson’s Work Seized

Photographer Bill Henson’s Work Seized

This is an ongoing story that I will barely scratch the surface of but Bill Henson an artist/photographer living in Australia has over the last few days/week been having his work of 25+ years seized, closed down and put into legal doubt. His work is largely inky black...