Future Shock – Nostalgia
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?
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…
Memory, Mind, Matter
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…
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
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…
Julian Schnabel in Aspen
Aspen Art Museum- Nov 4, 2016-Feb 19, 2017 – Aspen, Colorado Five minutes into the first gallery of the show, I started to think that I would have to have two of these paintings. One, because you have to be really far away to understand and appreciate them. And two, because at that moment…
KAWS
What do we learn from repetition? KAWS WHERE THE END STARTS Oct 20, 2016 – Jan 22, 2017 Fort Worth – Three versions of the same image start a large exhibit of 2- and 3- dimensional work by KAWS at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth. Six different colors make three different combinations that…
Bodacioussss with Frank Stella
Denver- Museum of Contemporary Art – Oct. to Jan 2017 Instead of using his easel to prop up a window on the world, Kandinsky used it to support a windshield moving through the universe. –from Working Space by Frank Stella. I went to the MCA to take a second look at a show of 20…