So many people are calling “Phenomenal,” MCASD’s two-venue light-and-space survey, the most-anticipated exhibition of Pacific Standard Time that I was beginning to think that “most-anticipated” was part of the show’s title. I’m guessing that “Phenomenal” will also be the source of the best PST pictures. Wowsa.- Few great 20thC artists had a more mysterious career than did Jay DeFeo. A new show at San Francisco’s Hosfelt Gallery examine’s DeFeo’s little-seen late work. Nadiah Fellah’s review on the New American Painters blog is quite good. (And so is the NAP blog, which will be on my blogroll if/when technical glitches are fixed.)
- When Steve Locke was 12 years old, he lied to his parents so he could visit the Detroit Institute of Arts. Great story.
- A couple years ago, while briefly summering in the Berkshires (typing that phrase is the preppiest I’ve ever felt), I visited the Williams College Museum of Art and was impressed by its commitment to including art in the schools collegiate curriculum by giving students nearly hands-on, in-the-classroom experience with art objects. One of the things I value about university museums is the way they can make a case for the importance of — the fun of — in a broad, inclusive context. In a related story, a new exhibit at WCMA was selected by Aaron Kelton, the school’s football coach.
- Sometimes disaster looks familiar: Hurricane Katrina and the federal response via Richard Misrach, the mortgage crisis via Zoe Strauss.
- Jonathan Jones describes exactly what I love about a wonderfully weird Caravaggio painting. (The best-known version of the painting is in Florence, but an apparently earlier version is at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, above.)
- One reason Max Ernst is great is that he fits nowhere — he’s really not exactly a surrealist even if that’s where he’s usually put — and he fits everywhere. MoMA’s Lotte Johnson finds another place for him, which is awesome.
- James Wagner goes all 3rd of May with poetry + image.
- LACMA will be tracking the movement of Michael Heizer’s Levitated Mass rock on this webpage. This could be the first boulder to attract groupies.
- This has absolutely nothing to do with art, but I love this paragraph Washington Post art/architecture/culture critic Philip Kennicott wrote about one of my personal heroes, the great, late equality pioneer Frank Kameny.
- I’ll be making a pretty good-sized announcement about my newest project on Nov. 3. My Twitter and Facebook followers/subscribers will hear the news first, so follow/friend/subscribe!
October 20, 2011, 9:01 am
Speaking of Max Ernst, did you know that his widow, Dorothea Tanning (not merely his widow, but an artist in her own right) has a new book out? She’s 101 and still creating!
Here’s a link to Amazon’s listing:
http://www.amazon.com/Coming-That-Poems-Dorothea-Tanning/dp/1555976018/ref=sr_1_3?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1319121531&sr=1-3
Hi Tyler,
Here is our new blog focusing on epic Land Art and the last updated news about Heizer’s boulder long story: http://obsart.blogspot.com (including a full international press review)
All the best
OBSART
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