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The Vogel collection at the High Museum of Art
I hadn’t been to see the High Museum of Art’s permanent exhibit since 1997, when I left to take an interactive TV job in San Francisco. I specifically went today to see the Vogel exhibit that closes June 5th; Fifty … Continue reading
Earth works for Earth Day
In this week’s New Yorker, Geoff Dyer’s Poles Apart tells the story of a pilgrimage to the land art created by Robert Smithson and Walter De Maria in the 1970’s; Smithson’s Spiral Jetty at the Great Salt Lake in Utah … Continue reading
Funding the Arts
The American actor and artistic director for London’s Old Vic Theater, Kevin Spacey, gave an eloquent speech at the Kennedy Center on April 3rd in response to the GOP’s goal to cut all government funding of the arts. All of … Continue reading
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Race, Sex, Politics, Religion…what not to talk about
That’s the title of an exhibit now up through April 16 at Emory’s Visual Arts Gallery, curated by artist Larry Jens Anderson. (that link is from Baltimore artist/writer/musician Jaclyn Paul, check out her site) The show was originally presented by Space … Continue reading
Just trying to make a living
This is a reposting from Sharon Butler’s ‘Two Coats of Paint’ blog, which I’ve followed since the advent of my own blog a few years ago. The artist Joy Garnett compiled the notes after a recent panel discussion for educators … Continue reading
Artists talking
Artists are not actors, they don’t usually do well on video or in film. Most will admit that they never know what they’re doing, even after the work is finished. So unless you tape an art historian or critic, or … Continue reading
Fairfield Porter and the Vitality of Art
I’ve been reading about the American painter Fairfield Porter’s life and work and while I knew that he’d once written for Art in America, I hadn’t realized the extent of his interest in philosophy or the range of his intellect. … Continue reading
The mystery of painting
In these clips artist Philip Guston (American, born Canada. 1913-1980) talks about his ‘process’ and SF MoMA’s Curator Michael Auping comments on his relationship to the Abstract Expressionists. Guston says that “destruction…is crucial” to his process. “I’ll find that what I’ve … Continue reading
Abstract Expressionist New York – Oct 3, 2010 to April 25, 2011
MoMA’s newest exhibit, Abstract Expressionist New York presents a good overview of the NY school of abstract expressionism during its heyday in the 40’s and 50’s. I just wish the curator had included some of the best of the women … Continue reading
Tom and Jack
Thomas Hart Benton’s paintings of working men and women in his distinctly American landscape have always sparked an emotional reaction in me. They remind me of childhood summers spent in North Carolina tobacco country, at my maternal grandparents’ hand hewn … Continue reading