Lightening Field
September 20, 2021 Left at the Lightning Field in the afternoon, we knew someone would pick us up at 11 a.m. the next day. We’d just been driven on dirt roads for nearly an hour from the town of Quemado – rural western New Mexico. The Lightening Field is a land art piece conceived by…
San Francisco Post Covid
Hello and it’s good to be back where the art is unsafe and the interior art spaces are optimistically healthy and cautiously open. The San Fransisco MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) was closed for remodeling for a while, then closed for Covid, but had been on our list of best museums for art of the…
Drums at MOA Vancouver, British Columbia
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…