Agnes Pelton : Desert Transcendentalist
— OCTOBER 5, 2019 – JANUARY 5, 2020, at the New Mexico Museum of Art — We start our conversation, me and Agnes Pelton, with a joke: Room Decoration in Purple and Gray from 1917. If Pelton was with Duchamp at the 1917 show put on by the Society of Independent American Artists she might…
Opera – Magic & Work
Bel Canto: Contemporary Artists Explore Opera — Site Santa Fe: March 16 to January 5, 2020 Why does [INTELLECTUAL ELITE] go together? Usually a put-down, does a pollster expect when survey respondents say a politician is an ‘intellectual elite’ they are confident in the thinking power of that politician? Or their success as they would…
Hinge Pictures
March 14 to June 16, 2019 : Contemporary Art Center New Orleans A complicated show of women artists who take off on the ideas written in the Green Box – part of Marcel Duchamp’s work called “the large glass,’” or officially, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even, or so I thought. The subtitle,…
Keith Sonnier: Until Today
March 15 – June 2nd, 2019 Our purpose in going to the Fine Art Museum of New Orleans today, April 3, was to leave an original book in the bookstore, one of our BookDrop series. Outside the museum was torrential rain, and inside the lobby a lot of wet coats. We looked at the bookstore…
DMA – Jonas Wood
Hockney-like people paintings March 24, 2019 through July 14, 2019 Big and in my face the scene could be just behind my eyelids in any sunny room in any sunny warm but dry climate. I can feel myself there peaking through fronds of houseplants obscuring my vision to the outside. And at the same time,…
Sterling Ruby: Nasher Sculpture
February 2, 2019 – April 21, 2019 We’ve been watching the British TV show where an art dealer tries to prove through various investigations that an old famous-looking painting or drawing is really that of someone famous so that it can make its owner a lot of money – Fake or Fortune. The sculpture Sterling…
Tatoo This
Amanda Wachob — Feb 14 – May 26, 2019 – MCA Denver Snow is white – it is true. To say it is true that snow is white, does not mean we can truthfully call snow white. Or me white. Put an abstract or semi-non-representational tattoo on this skin of mine and you will see…
After Effect:
Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Painting – MCA Denver Feb. 15 – May 26, 2019 A few paintings by the canonized artist Georgia O’Keeffe hang with new paintings in the clean modernist galleries of the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. The premise of the show is that the contemporary artists have learned something from O’Keeffe –…
Rauschenberg : a 4-Block Walk in LA
– October 28, 2018 to June 9, 2019 BCAM, Level 3 LA County Museum of Art – Robert Rauschenberg’s ¼ Mile Painting ‘Painting relates to art and life’ — according to several art sources, Robert Rauschenberg said this. To accomplish it, he included real things in his painting, so I have been told. Adding an object…
Arp – First Dada
– Nasher Sculpture Center – September 15, 2018 – January 6, 2019 Descending the staircase to the lower level of the Nasher Sculpture Center, you are centered on the gallery in front of you. Like walking into the sunset, you can’t help but notice it, and now, autumn 2018, this gallery is filled with sculpture so…