wake up america: welcome to 2009

Thank you for ringing in the new year with Visualité! Check out the brand new content, videos, critical perspectives and more!

Image courtesy of Glen Lignon.

scene of the day

Laylah Ali is perhaps one of the most provocative artists of the 21st century dealing with the dynamics of race in our society. You can check out more of her work at 303 Gallery in New York City.

Video courtesy of PBS Series Art 21.

celebrité

Andy Warhol. Elizabeth Peyton. Prow. Even Kehinde Wiley. What exactly is the connection between art, celebrity, and popular culture? How exactly do icons of popular culture become visual tools for contemporary artists? What I find even more interesting is that the process of capturing celebrity through photography and painting often reproduces imagery of pop culture icons while inadvertently making artists themselves apart of celebrity circles. The paparazzi aren't the only forces feeding into the mass public obsession with the stars...

You can check out Elizabeth Peyton's retrospective Live Forever at the New Museum in New York City, as well as Andy Warhol's Jews: Ten Portraits Reconsidered at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco.