Do media images tell the truth? In one set of works Charlesworth blanked out newspaper pages, except for the photos, to reveal their latent meaning. Other works showed people in mid-air. Are these stunts or people attempting suicide? Her later manipulated glossy pictures pose the same question: do I accept “photography’s historical claim to credibility”?
By age 21, Kirstein had founded a literary journal and a contemporary art society. After graduating he chose the young MoMA as “the perfect repository for his many enthusiasms.” At 25, he co-founded the New York City Ballet! His contributions to modern art via institution building and support of individual artists “was one of the greatest of the twentieth century.” A video is here.
This bio piece makes Sacks sound intimidating – literature specialist, poet, Harvard academic and now, at age 69, successful painter. His paintings take years, sometimes having 10 or more layers. Not abstract art, he says, more non-representational. “They are like very slow action paintings … one step at a time. In a certain sense, it’s up to the materials to show me the way.”