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Burchfield’s Force Fields

Saturday, July 10, 2010

Charles E. Burchfield’s landscape paintings swarm with spirits.  His wild and hairy visions of the alive world are currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in an exhibit titled Heat Waves in a Swamp.  I knew a little of Burchfield before, mostly through reproductions, but seeing this show, brilliantly curated by sculptor [...]

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Picks of the Whitney

Saturday, April 3, 2010

This year’s Whitney Biennial exhibition is a disparate collection of contemporary work.  I appreciate the lack of any discernible curatorial agenda, as the individual works then have a chance to stand for themselves rather than representing some theme imposed by a curator.  I found much of the work in the show, to put it kindly, [...]

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Drawing as Theater / Presence as Provocation: Kentridge and Abramovic at MoMA

Tuesday, March 23, 2010

The Museum of Modern Art in New York currently hosts retrospectives of two idiosyncratic and uncompromising living artists, Yugoslavian born Marina Abramovic and South African William Kentridge.  The two artists could hardly be more different from each other, but each has followed the path of art as something deeply personal and necessary. Marina Abramovic emerged as [...]

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Hair as Art: Edisa Weeks

Wednesday, October 21, 2009

As a child, dance artist Edisa Weeks attended Quaker meetings with her family. These meetings involved group meditation and sharing, conducted without leaders or hierarchy. As an adult artist, she found herself in a field defined by elitism and a rigid division of roles. The artists were expected to demonstrate their skill, passion, and cleverness [...]

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A Bolt of Clarity

Friday, August 21, 2009

I’ve recently discovered John Michael Greer’s blog, The Archdruid Report, and while I don’t generally do this kind of post, I simply have to share with my readers my appreciation of his well-written and clearly reasoned economic thought.  He sees the economy as an ecosystem, and shows that ecology and economics cannot be separated.  I [...]

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