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Review: "Architecture of Life at BAMPFA" My take on the extravagantly poetic exhibition curated by Larry Rinder to open the new Berkeley Art Museum and Film Archives, published on Square Cylinder, February 2016.
Monthly Archives: March 2012
Pacific Standard Time I: Mary Corse
Photography fails me The photograph you see here captures nothing—nothing—of what makes Mary Corse’s paintings worth your time. Photographs of her work are poor, dead things, confounding the truism that a picture is worth a thousand words. Showing you this … Continue reading
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Tagged Ace Gallery, Billy Al Bengston, Craig Kauffman, Crosscurrents, Getty, Judy Chicago, Larry Bell, LIght and Space, Los Angeles, Mary Corse, Pacific Standard Time, Phenomenal, Robert Irwin
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Art
If you hang out in an art school, you hear lots of talk about “art as discourse.” It’s a thought that is almost worn out, yet ideas become commonplace because they are apt. And sometimes an artist can extract a … Continue reading
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Tagged Anjan Chatterjee, Antonio Damasio, Axel Seemann, Inge-Marie Eighsti, joint attention, Michael Tomasello, Robin Hill, San Francisco Center for the Book, Ulla Warchol
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