Art of Darkness – Bill Westheimer

Photographer and printer John Delaney has made some extraordinary portraits of the nomadic Kazakh people who have been displaced to western Mongolia. The prints are on exhibit at the Farmani Gallery in Brooklyn through February 28, 2009

For Insecta Fantasia, artist Jennifer Angus creates installations composed of thousands of preserved insects pinned directly to the gallery walls in repeating patterns that reference both textiles and wallpaper. Her work is influenced by the Victorian era and evokes the Victorian aesthetic of taste, clutter and exotica during a period when travel, exploration and scientific [...]