Archive for January, 2010

The other day, I was browsing the Shakespeare and Co. bookstore across from Tisch and saw a book by David Lynch on display. Titled Catching the Big Fish, the fairly-thin book seemed to claim being a sort of roadmap into the 3-time Oscar-nominated director’s head. It was so much more than that. A fast read, [...]

Below is a link to an interview with Patti Smith concerning her new memoir, Just Kids, about her 22-year-long relationship with photographer, Robert Mapplethrope. I cannot wait to read this! http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/episodes/2010/01/19/segments/148345

© rita lee and kat ching The first NYU BFA Thesis show of 2010 opens tomorrow night, January 21st. Hopefully these deserving artists will get a good turn out. Here’s the info: NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts: Department of Photography & Imaging 721 Broadway, 8th Floor New York, NY 10003 212.998.1930 SHOW ONE: Mike [...]

It is both appropriate and coincidental that my first post back in America is about Robert Frank’s book The Americans. In celebration of its fiftieth anniversary since publication, the 83 photographs from the book circulated America in 2009. An exhibition of the collection of photographs left the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York a few weeks ago, and [...]

With just under three weeks until the opening, we’re going to try to introduce you to a couple more Show One artists. Today we invite you to check out to work of Erica Tashiro who has this to say about her project play: “We are constant participants of role-play. Throughout our lives, we are continuously [...]