The Horse

Opening tomorrow at the American Museum of Natural History in New York is the exhibit titled simply "The Horse" - through January 4, 2009.


With the Horses (Cayo) © Corvallo

Walton Ford

Browsing through the Taschen website, I was reminded again how much I love the work of Walton Ford. Taschen published two exclusive limited edition monographs about Mr. Ford's oeuvre last year, which are gorgeous, but carry a price tag of $7000 for the Intaglio print reproductions art edition & $1800 for the 'regular' hardcover printing. Of course Taschen also publishes many very affordable beautiful art books and these limited edition monographs are meant for collectors. I just hope that they will also publish a more inexpensive catalog of Mr. Ford's art, as not much of his work is in print. Abrams published a modest monograph a few years ago, which was affordably priced, but since has gone out of print and also has become somewhat pricey to acquire.
During Mr. Ford's retrospective last year at the Brooklyn Museum of Art (which coincided with the touching retrospective of Annie Leibovitz's work) a small catalogue (not a book) accompanied the exhibit and to my knowledge there are no other monographs published detailing the work of this amazing painter.
New York Magazine's Mark Jacobson wrote an article on Mr. Ford in October 2002 titled "Nature Boy" that one can read online. Men's Vogue also published an article on Mr. Ford on the occasion of his retrospective, but PBS offers the best look at his work in their "art:21" documentary series. Which also offers some nice segments about other great artists like Kara Walker, Kiki Smith, Louise Bourgeois, Sally Mann, Shanzia Sikander and others. This series is available via Netflix or to purchase via PBS.