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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: August 2012
Arranging Ideas
As I prepare to present art to audiences who may or may not care for my comments (sometimes referred to as “teaching art history”), I occasionally play with thinking of the lecture as a flower arrangement. The key works, the … Continue reading
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Tagged A Day Made of Glass, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Bruce Tognazzini, Corning, Maria Mitchell, Philip Benn, Starfire
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Electrified Air and Fuchsia Skies
In the country, highway sounds can make you feel insignificant. The speed with which vehicles pass you by insists that the life worth paying attention to is somewhere else. It was that distant zoom that I heard on entering Christina … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Lerner, Christina Battle, climate change, Continental Drift, Jeanne Liotta, MCA, video installation
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