JUNE 2007
posted June 22, 2007
SANDRA SIDER on Summer of Love at the Whitney Museum of Art |
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Summer of Love captures the joyful, crazy (What were we thinking?) exuberance of the 60s. It really was a time of innocence, especially before 1968 when the horrors of Vietnam became all too clear, on a massive scale.
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posted June 22, 2007
GREG LINDQUIST on Anthony Goicolea at Postmasters |
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Goicolea’s photographs are at once meditative and filled with malaise, atmospheric and materially present.
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posted June 22, 2007
DAVID COHEN on Neo Rauch: para at the Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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Neo is perfectly forenamed for an artist in whom, to paraphrase architectural theorist Charles Jencks, the wasms have become an ism. Rauch’s paintings, fusing elements of romanticism and realism from the last two centuries, resist the idea that anachronism and rejuvenation might be at odds with one another.
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posted June 21, 2007
DEBORAH GARWOOD on Arthur Ou at Hudson Franklin |
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As much as Arthur Ou's fascinating show explores east-west themes and transitory visions of reality, its enduring message is the migration of ideas through art.
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posted June 7, 2007
ROUNDTABLE: Deborah Garwood and Lara Taubman discuss Global Feminisms with
Sandra Sider |
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Dinner parties are celebratory yet treacherous. Conversation and networking, conducted while eating and drinking, is their purpose. I see The Dinner Party as a jewel within the Center, a dark star that propels its metaphor out to the surrounding galleries - Deborah Garwood
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posted June 6, 2007
ERIC GELBER on Nancy Shaver at Feature, Inc. |
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This work is all about the nexus of the utilitarian object that has hidden poetic qualities and the self-consciously constructed art object. Shaver’s art is also about accumulation, juxtaposition, and the visual habits we form with objects that we live with day to day.
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