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170- Tanja Hollander at MASS MoCA
Melody, Ike + Zachary Nwangburuka, Converse, Texas, 2014 photo by Tanja Hollander Two years back I wrote about Tanja Hollander’s project Act Fast Friday, a way for the artist to give away work and for...
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171 – MASS MoCA Immersion
Hope Ginsburg, Land Dive Team (still), 2016 The entrance to MASS MoCA was presented to me after I passed dripping eaves and pock-marked black top and an icicle edged overhang and a small slush heap....
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172 – Chayka’s Kiefer, Marclay and Armleder and Rankine on Schutz
Last week the Paris Review published this piece by Kyle Chayka about his time at The Aldrich Museum. He was a guard for an installation by Anselm Kiefer. The article is entitled Ruins in Advance and...
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173 – John Baldessari’s “Painting for Kubler”
John Baldessari’s “Painting for Kubler” in the exhibition John Baldessari: Paintings 1966-1968 at Craig F. Starr Gallery (The large scale text below is part of the painting “Painting for Kubler”,...
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174 – The Dead Deer
My caution as a driver is directly related to having small children. In the past few years I found myself being more cautious in everything. This dawned on me when I saw a deer, freshly dead, a few...
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175 – Young Mountain
Seeing a single work in its intended context, or any context that feels like its home, makes all the difference. It had been years since I had been to The Noguchi Museum in Queens. I was enamored...
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176 – Summer Reading Collage Criticism
A body is never just a sum, though identity categories can trick us into thinking this way. Yet the significance of a body is irreducible to parts. Pelvises, limbs, a tongue seem to emerge from the...
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177 – Blues for Appropriation
“Blues for Appropriation: or how I chose to consider but not review a press release by and about a Kara Walker exhibition in a commercial art gallery which has been (the press release) reviewed in...
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178 – Exhibitions & Press / Friends of Atlas
This week a brief list of the wonderful work that friends of Alumni have put into the world recently! Jenn Dierdorf “On the Shadow, Of a Woman” 2017 Exhibitions in NYC: Jeri Coppola “In Search of Lost...
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179 – Sahana Ramakrishnan “A Night In The Woods”, An Atlas Conversation
Sahana Ramakrishnan, Vasilissa, 2017 [This post is co-published by Atlas and Two Coats of Paint] In Sahana Ramakrishnan’s imagery, I find myself absorbed in detail and affected by the many stories...
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