On Saturday, October 4, 2014, art professionals, mani Olu and Larry Ossei-Mensah, will host the back to school edition of The Rules: How to Play the Art Game without Sacrificing Artistic Integrity at KX–L x miLES, located at 103 Allen Street (corner of Delancey and Broome) from 10a.m. to 4p.m.
While thousands of who's whos swarmed and sweated PS1's halls this weekend for Printed Matter's MOMA PS1 Art Book Fair and we broke our budgets big time (thanks Conveyor Arts, S_U_N, Daniel Shea and, and Diagonal Press for having the best stuff in the world), roving outside were a band of super smart punks taking celebrity for storm with de-authored prints (and one edition of apparently authorized photocopied editions of Alec Soth's Broken Manual) from history-of photographers.
Foam's Deputy Director Marcel Feil introduces this year's Talent issue with an essay that poses a simple, yet increasingly relevant question: What constitutes true artistic talent? How do we distinguish between artists who have a spark, who create visually appealing and thoughtful work, from those who are truly “outstanding” and perhaps promise a coveted place in the future cannon of photographic history?
In case you haven’t heard, we jumped on the Instagram bandwagon a bit late in the game this past summer with our conveniently titled online show #latergram, featuring Instagram work from some of our favorite emerging and household name photographers.
In photography's early days, many believed it had the ability to capture a person's soul, spectres and supernatural presence. The Metropolitan Museum of Art's 2005 exhibition Photography and the Occult explored this phenomenon with a particular focus on early ghost photography dating back to the 1850s.
