Drums at MOA Vancouver, British Columbia
Seattle Art – Outdoors
The largest most well-known sculpture in Seattle is the Space Needle built for the 1962 Worlds Fair. We took the monorail built for that fair, which feels a little dated today, out to the park surrounding this Eiffel Tower of Seattle. Another evening, we walked from our hotel to this landmark and over to the…
Portland Museum of Art
January 8, 2020 We flew into Portland and made out way to the Portland Museum of Art to see several things: one was a show of work by Hank Willis Thomas (American, born 1976) addressing the visual systems that perpetuate inequality and bias – with new and old images comparing the 50s and today as…
Monet: Truth in Nature
— October 21, 2019 until February 2, 2020 — Denver Art Museum I live in my own world of poetry and art. And what better friend for me to have in this world than the Denver Art Museum, just a 20-minute walk through beautiful Denver weather — one day 80℉ and the next day 14℉…
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…