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ARTiculations: A Sense of Time
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Very brief essays on current shows, studio news, philosophical matters. Sunday, March 28, 2010. A Sense of Time. This Monday, so many art writers writing about each other instead of about art. Noah Becker. Sums it up, and says it's maybe just too hard to write about the art itself. Yes it is, and I'm going to take a stab at some art that is hugely complex. Hard to put words to what I feel about it, but here goes. Is a new iteration of Smith's exhibition Her Home. Installed in 2008 at the Kunstmuseen Kref...
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ARTiculations: More from CAA
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Very brief essays on current shows, studio news, philosophical matters. Monday, February 14, 2011. Last Friday's programs at the CAA Conference included a panel discussion of current practices in painting, a presentation of global opportunities for artists who want to work outside the US (and for artists from away looking to come here to work), and finally, an interview with Mel Chin. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Are available on my website. View my complete profile. Subscribe To My Blog. Developm...
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ARTiculations: Erosions at Coleman Burke Gallery New York
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Very brief essays on current shows, studio news, philosophical matters. Sunday, February 06, 2011. Erosions at Coleman Burke Gallery New York. Some images from my exhibition Erosions at Coleman Burke Gallery New York. January 27 through March 10, 2011. Erosions, geologics and terrains. The exhibition catalog with an essay by Mark Wethli, is available at the gallery and from Blurb.com. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Are available on my website. View my complete profile. Subscribe To My Blog. Deleuze ...
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ARTiculations: Red, White and Blue
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Very brief essays on current shows, studio news, philosophical matters. Sunday, March 27, 2011. Red, White and Blue. From Red and White to Blue and White: post-Armory, I wandered back out onto the street and came upon a Greek celebration and parade-in-the-making. Greek flags everywhere along Fifth Avenue. I love a parade! And then, just because it's March Madness and this is a nostalgia post, I can't resist-. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Are available on my website. View my complete profile. Deleu...
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ARTiculations: Inside the Whitney
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Very brief essays on current shows, studio news, philosophical matters. Monday, April 12, 2010. First off the elevator was a large hemp and jute tapestry by Piotr Uklanski (no image available). There is a recent time and tradition in which tapestry was bold in its imagery and reflected its roots in primitive traditions. Untitled (The Year We Made Contact). Is such a tapestry and it comes across now as dated, monotonous and far too big for its wall. By contrast, Still, Untitled. Of a couple of kids making...
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Very brief essays on current shows, studio news, philosophical matters. Wednesday, January 19, 2011. So here I am in my apartment, having started the day by sketching the flowers on the windowsill. When you try to come up with marks that read as chrysanthemums, you do begin to understand Van Gogh and Japanese art. The trick is to avoid photographic representation and rather to provide a language, a transcription, a translation, a geomantic summons of the Family Asteraceae. How to get back? The odds might...
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ARTiculations: Bye Bye Kitty!!!
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Very brief essays on current shows, studio news, philosophical matters. Friday, March 25, 2011. Between Heaven and Hell in Contemporary Japanese Art. At the Japan Society, has received outstanding reviews already, so I won't recap them here. (Links are at the bottom of the blog and the catalog's essays are excellent.) This is an exhibition that puts paid to the easy simplifications of Japan's cult of cute ( kawaii. Of which the Hello Kitty phenomenon is the slickest and cutest. Bye Bye Kitty! Development...
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ARTiculations: The Black and the White
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Very brief essays on current shows, studio news, philosophical matters. Sunday, March 06, 2011. The Black and the White. My take-away from the fairs this week: Black and White. I got around to Pulse and Impulse, the Red Dot Fair and the Korean Art Fair (housed together on Mercer) and the Armory. Also managed to squeeze in Esteban Vicente's collages at NYU and Lynda Benglis at the New Museum, but for now I'll just comment on a few of my favorites at the fairs. People too come mostly in black. All photos c...
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ARTiculations: Haystack Mountain
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Very brief essays on current shows, studio news, philosophical matters. Sunday, October 03, 2010. Last week at Haystack Mountain School of Crafts on Deer Isle, Maine, the dripping trees, the fog, the moss on the rocks and even the architecture made me think about the timelessness of Japanese art, where nature is not so much looked at as it is lived in. The other book I've been working through, a few pages at a time at odd moments, is Ludwig Tieck's Franz Sternbalds Wanderungen. Are available on my website.
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ARTiculations: Days of Decadence
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Very brief essays on current shows, studio news, philosophical matters. Thursday, June 17, 2010. Tonight, the catbird's doing a great cover of the cardinal's song, the woods are alive with late evening light, and this morning, as I was coming back up the rise from the my pond, I met a bull moose on his way down the creekbank. He was gone through Beeler's Woods before I could get to my iPhone. The combination of experiences reminds me that I haven't yet written about absinthe. At the Salt Exchange. I have...
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