Future Shock – Nostalgia

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer in collaboration with Krzysztof Wodiczko Zoom Pavilion (2015)

SITE Santa Fe – New Mexico – October 7, 2017 to June 10, 2018 – Future Shock is the first show in the newly expanded SITE Santa Fe, a contemporary art space in the capitol city of New Mexico. SITE is a sprawling space and has a proclivity for exhibitions that include many artists. The…

Black and White – Are We Making Art?

Cleon Peterson large wall painting MCA Denver 3018

Denver- Museum of Contemporary Art – March 3, 2018 — Three current shows at the MCA Denver seem to be about fitting into society or, as is obvious in the case of the videos on the lower level by Arthur Jafa, they are pointing out how we don’t fit in sometimes. Diego Rodriguez-Warner ‘s Honestly…

First Sculpture

Nasher Exhibition First Sculpture: Handaxe to Figure Stone January 27, 2018 - April 28, 2018

Nasher Sculptuer Center — Dallas — Handaxe to Figure Stone January 27, 2018 – April 28, 2018 Lost It One of her gifts was a poem that I thought was written only for me, once, on this scrap of paper that had been previously printed with news about the paper folding workshop she’d attended where…

Memory, Mind, Matter

memory, mind, matter exhibition at SMU, Dallas

Meadows Museum, SMU, Dallas, TX — Eduardo Chillida — February 4 – June 3, 2018 —  Bruckner and Phillip Glass, Dallas Symphony Orchestra — February 3, 2017 How little sound can still be music? How little sound can remain in a concert hall and we, the silent audience, still hear music?  How low and few the notes keep us…

Art & Clyfford Still

Big Blue painting by Clyfford Still as seen from behind woman with red shoes writing in a blank book

DENVER — Clyfford Still Museum SEP 29, 2017 – JAN 21, 2018 Red attracts attention. Blue recedes. A horizontal line is a horizon: the space between sky and the surface where we are. See any image and think back. Go back through personal and current associations with that image, and keep going back. Does every…

Peter Fischli David Weiss Wade Guyton

Aspen Art Museum — JUNE 22, 2017 – NOVEMBER 26, 2017 — Walked into the gallery and then turned around to leave. On the way, I asked the gallery attendant when the show would open, and was told, It is. This is the show. I walked toward a pile of construction materials and the attendant…

Books of a Life

Harwood Museum – Taos, New Mexico – Wednesday, April 5 – Sunday, April 23, 2017 ANTHONY HASSETT: LAST EVENINGS ON EARTH I wanted to see these books – hand made, accordion books drawn graphic-novel style – that feel like a journal of a vivid, rich life. I didn’t know Hassett and just stumbled into a beautiful memorial…

MiTierra – Denver

Denver Art Museum – March – October 22, 2017 – I walk straight through this exhibition like I was walking across the long bridge into that border town, a little afraid for my kids watching them like a mother hawk, knowing that they would be so easily attracted to all the colorful things in stalls…

Look at Me

Wall Writers, grafitti reproduction in stairwell

Who is behind street art – at the MCA – Denver – Feb 10 – May 7, 2017 It’s easy to see the new shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver – you don’t even have to be in Denver. Look around and you’ll see people passionately saying, ‘Hey, Look at Me.’  Basquiat before…