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Repository 217: Hilma’s Project
After a transcontinental red eye from the West coast, I dropped my bags in the West Village and took the subway uptown. On twenty-eight hours of no sleep, I arrived at the Guggenheim to see the “Hilma af Klimt: Paintings for the Future” show. This was a pilgrimage, as a woman artist who knows 100 percent that we have not been given our due in the art world, that our natural creativity and depth of thinking have not been explored…
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Repository 196: Manifesta | Excrement Makes Its Powerful and Relevant Case Again
This year one of the major nomadic biennales in Europe, Manifesta 11 is going on in Zurich. Manifesta was born in the 90s as a response to the Cold War where artists were reflecting on social, political and cultural realities in the area. The curator this year is German artist Christian Jankowski, and the title is “What People do For Money – Some Joint Ventures”. Essentially there are 30 artists making new commissions, 30 satellite venues and two main institutions showing the…
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Repository 184: A Man and His Messy Muse | Francis Bacon Studio Redux
I’ve always been comfortably obsessed with the art and life of Francis Bacon (1909-1992). While his work is received popularly as tortured, emotional and expressionist I’ve always found it to be a fairly clear representation of what tension and violence feels like. This is neither a good or a bad thing – it’s not violence in the sense of domestic abuse, it’s violence in the sense of wanting something when you absolutely can’t have it, the violence of a frozen…
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Repository 182: Top 10 Exhibits to See in 2015/16
I’ve been remiss in posting though I have not been slacking – just collecting a bevy of research to share on 1. changes in art consumption, 2. creating art for longevity and art against passivity, and 3. why drawing is a necessary tool for thinking and how the lack of drawing instruction is correlated to the rash of irrational thinking in our society now (even MFA art students do not need to know how to draw to graduate!!). Meanwhile a short and…
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Repository 147: Thoughts on Cartography | Jim Hodges at ICA Boston
the looking itself is a trace of what we’re looking for, but we’ve been more like the man who sat on his donkey and asked the donkey where to go! -Rumi While traveling last week I had the pleasure of accidentally seeing Jim Hodges, “Give More Thank You Take” show at the ICA Boston. Admittedly I go to this museum less for the art and more for the quiet, air conditioned front row seat to an otherwise busy harbor, I…
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