Category Archives: Art
Sauerländer on art history today
The Brooklyn Rail a while back posted a lengthy interview with Willibald Sauerländer (with his afterthoughts) that is a must-read for anyone interested at all in art history or criticism. After walking us through his really quite fascinating (to me, … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Art History, Methodology
WCMA Blog!
The Williams College Museum of Art has launched a blog! Go see posts on the Landscapes of the Mind show, including talks by Williams professors and some behind-the-scenes exhibition planning pictures. I really want to go visit right now!
We’ve all been following the Tiny Art Director blog for a while now, but recently its creator has supplemented the site with a Twitter account featuring occasional quotes from the TAD: “You know what’s worser than finding half a worm … Continue reading
Moore Award Nominee?
For those of you familiar with Andrew Sullivan’s rolling roster of notable quotables: “Unfortunately we deserve Sgarbi,” he says. “Contemporary art is to Sgarbi what America is to Bin Laden. Once in a while, Sgarbi, like Bin Laden, rants against … Continue reading
Filed under angst, Art, Italy, Ridiculous quotes
Jimmyjammed
Money quote on the William T. Wiley exhibition we saw earlier this fall down at the SAAM: He applies an expansive, satiric imagination to all manner of subjects, from the stains on his studio floor to concerns about the environment … Continue reading
“Maybe it was me.”
Great NYT profile of Carmen Herrera, a recently-successful painter who happens to be ninety-four years old: Recognition for Ms. Herrera came a few years after her husband’s death, at 98, in 2000. “Everybody says Jesse must have orchestrated this from … Continue reading
Filed under Art, New York Times, Women
Greetings, O favored one
For the last decade, at least, I’ve gone to bed every Christmas Eve in the Dedham, MA Holiday Inn right after a candlelight lessons and carols service, awaiting Christmas morning over at Nana’s house. In earlier years, when the whole … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Art History, Christmas, Family, History
“Where’s the beef?”
I went to the non-library section of the Clark the other day for the first time in months to see “Dove/O’Keeffe: Circles of Influence“. Aside from its frankly dull title, it was a perfectly diverting show. I’d never really seen … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Books, musems, Ridiculous quotes
Preschoolers v. Clement Greenberg
Daniel Siedell writes another post of note, reflecting on the well-established (to my eyes, at least, being an art historical child of the double-aughts) rift between formalism and, for lack of a more specific generalization, contextualism. For the non-jargon inclined, formalism is … Continue reading
Filed under Art, Methodology, musems, Politics
March of the Nobles
So you remember that air-guitar cover band I saw rocking out across from Tunnel City a year and a half ago? They were back today, except with real instruments making some kind of transcendent noise outside of St. Pierre’s Barber … Continue reading
