{"id":528,"date":"2006-06-21T01:04:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-21T08:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=528"},"modified":"2006-06-21T01:04:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-21T08:04:00","slug":"other_places_barbara_nessim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/06\/other_places_barbara_nessim\/","title":{"rendered":"Other Places: Barbara Nessim"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Nessim, the artist known for her <em>Rolling Stone<\/em>, <em>TIME<\/em> and <em>New York Times Magazine <\/em>covers, among other works, has a fascinating <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbaranessim.com\/\"target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> tracking her output from the beginning of her career in the 1960s to the present. It includes a piece of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbaranessim.com\/bnoncamera.html\"target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> showing Nessim&#8217;s hands as she invents place cards for one of her dinner parties. I haven&#8217;t seen a more effective on-screen demonstration of  improvisatory graphic art since the 1955 Henri-Georges Clouzot film, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?link_code=ur2&#038;tag=rifftidougram-20&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fgp%2Fproduct%2FB00007ELEI%2Fqid%3D1150829955%2Fsr%3D1-1%2Fref%3Dsr_1_1%3Fs%3Ddvd%26v%3Dglance%26n%3D130\"target=\"_blank\"><em>The Mystery of Picasso<\/em><\/a>.<br \/>\nA tour of Nessim&#8217;s site stimulates thoughts about lines: her ability to express complete ideas in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barbaranessim.com\/1970s_sketchbook.html\"target=\"_blank\">one or two sweeping lines<\/a>, and the thin, shifting and indefineable line between commercial art and &#8220;serious&#8221; art. The parallels with jazz are obvious.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Nessim, the artist known for her Rolling Stone, TIME and New York Times Magazine covers, among other works, has a fascinating website tracking her output from the beginning of her career in the 1960s to the present. It includes a piece of video showing Nessim&#8217;s hands as she invents place cards for one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-528","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}