The photographs currently on exhibit at A\V in the Public Market remind us of Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Still series or the documentary photographs in Nan Goldin’s book, The Ballad of Sexual Dependency. In their own ways, both of these photographers deal with the complexities of gender, identity politics, and sexuality. Goldin portrays the people […]
Scott Laird
Posted inArts & Entertainment
The pin (and) ball wizard
Once upon a time, there were two Greek painters, Parrhasius and Zeuxis. Zeuxis was considered the greatest painter of still life in the ancient world. In a competition between the two artists, Zeuxis chose to paint an arrangement of grapes and placed the painting outside. It was so realistic that birds flew down to […]
