Love Story: Frida & Diego & I
Amy Herschleb02.14.13
“Frida & Diego: Passion, Politics, and Painting” is on exhibit at the High Museum of Art as of Valentine’s Day 2013. This is about the beholder and all that is beheld.
Past Tense
Thomas Moore12.31.12
Thomas Moore shares his Best of 2012 list now that the world hasn’t ended and more things happened than Xiu Xiu’s Always.
A Burning City, A Polka-Dotted Street
Lauren Traetto12.17.12
Vernacular & street art blow open the gallery doors, unleashing Art into the streets. Lauren Traetto explores the Heidelberg Project of Detroit Michigan and its mission of fostering the artistic community by creating a dialogue with public spaces.
A Knight Takes Up The Fight For Joy
Alexandra Hemrick10.04.12
Alexandra Hemrick lays down the weary burden of a 9-to-5 and takes up the fight for joy, drawing on the legacies of Beethoven, Klimt, and Spinal Tap. It is a noble crusade. Turn the speakers up to 11.
In
Molly Brodak09.04.12
Molly Brodak on a meditative wander through the Carlos Museum, and what she avoided there. Art by Danny Jock.
A Tunnel Too Far
Gean Moreno04.26.12
Privatized infrastructure is reshaping Miami, not in an Edward Sharpe “Up From Below” type of way––more in an Underminer way.
Roberto Burle Marx: The Modernity of Landscape
Gean Moreno03.01.12
The landcape architecture of Roberto Burle Marx is the interstitial fluid that lubricates the intersection of nature and artifice. As the lines blur that separate insular impulses of design, the artist reimagines the usefulness––and ultimately, the paradigm––of deliniation. Gean Moreno takes us through Burle Marx’s garden of forking paths.
The Object is Not the Art
Matthew Sherling02.16.12
Artist Truong Tran presents his second major exhibition in San Francisco, At War, and interviewer Matthew Sherling joins in the fray. As close to home as the living room in Haight Ashbury where poetry is read, music is played, and the plastic cube everyone has been photographed naked in sits placidly, Tran’s art is a natural extension of his poetry––and his distrust of it.
Experience the Wait: Carsten Holler
Bradford Nordeen12.15.11
Here’s an idea: art is about access to an imagined experience. Half Seward Street slide and half Escaliers de Montmarte, Carsten Höller’s Untitled (Slide), 2011 is the centerpiece/centrifuge of his New Museum installation Experience, running from October 26 through January 15, 2012. Bradford Nordeen takes a trip through the funhouse of Höller’s making and sends back reports on the waiting front. Here’s the slide, here’s your ticket ro ride.
“I make (myself): envoi”: Nancy Spero’s Contemporary Poetics
David Berridge08.02.11
The exhibition Nancy Spero – initiated at the Centre Pompidou, Paris last fall and adapted for Serpentine Gallery, London this past spring – was the first major retrospective of Spero since the artist’s death in 2009. Wandering between the two, in a landscape populated by feminine bodies, hieroglyphics, and Antonin Artaud, David Berridge explores the dialogue that exists between Spero, artists of the past, poetics of the present, and artistic politics yet to be born.
