Philadelphia-based Sarah Stolfa is a fine art photographer who holds an undergraduate degree from Drexler University and an MFA from the Yale School of Art. She’s most famous for her series, The Regulars, which won the The New York Times Photography Contest for College Students in 2004 and became a popular book with an introduction by one of our favorite writers, Jonathan Franzen. After the jump she talks to Flavorwire’s Adda Birnir about changing her visual language, seeking out the universal trauma in American culture, and suggesting the link between religion and sports in her work.
We here at Flavorwire are thankful that Gawker is still picking up the Rielle Hunter beat. Apparently the ex-lover of the ex-dignified John Edwards is back in the New York metropolitan area; they say Hunter’s endless supply of cash dried up when Fred Baron died earlier this year and she was forced to forgo her cushy residence in the Santa Barbara hills. Now she’s crashing with a friend in Northern New Jersey.
We here at Flavorpill don’t have time to fix all the lonely hearts out there, but we can point you in the right direction. It turns out the events we list each week are fertile ground for finding someone, especially if you like Dan Deacon or Beach House. In an effort to spread the love during the holiday season, after the jump we’ve rounded up our favorite Missed Connections from recent events we listed in the hopes that you all can find one another — or avoid the guy who stalked you in the beer line at Vampire Weekend…these things can go either way.
If contemporary art can serve as a litmus test for the state of the world, it’s time to get worried. A survey of major bodies of work by both established and emerging artists reveals that everyone is very sad. Sad and unproductive — large portions of the population can’t even get out of bed. But apparently, this strange melancholia only afflicts the fair skinned.
