Saturday, September 17th, 2011

Mark Cohen’s Work from the 1970s and ’80s Exhibited at Bruce Silverstein Gallery

June 12, 2011 by  
Filed under Photography

NEW YORK, NY.- Bruce Silverstein Gallery announces representation and a new exhibition of the work of Mark Cohen. The exhibition, Lost/Found, features Cohen’s work from the 1970s and ‘80s that focuses on the artist’s extensive fascination with minute, cast-off elements of human effects—garbage or other small details—which Cohen makes monumental through his stimulating compositions possessing emotional weight and ineffable meaning. Renowned for his images of cropped figures shot at close range and strobe lit, previous exhibitions have portrayed Cohen as [...]

Ground Broken on Frank Gehry’s $81 Million Underground Utility Space at Philadelphia Art Museum

November 10, 2010 by  
Filed under Museums & Galleries

PHILADELPHIA (AP).- It’s not typical for a loading dock to be the celebrated subject of a groundbreaking ceremony, but Frank Gehry is not your typical architect. Gehry joined more than 100 dignitaries, philanthropists and art aficionados Tuesday at the The Philadelphia Museum of Art to mark the start of construction on his 68,000-square-foot, $81 million underground utility space. A vaulted hallway that has been closed to the public is seen after a groundbreaking ceremony at the Philadelphia Museum of Art in [...]