Drone Perception of Land Art
Margaret Dreikausen, in her book Aerial Perception: The Earth as Seen from Aircraft and Spacecraft and Its Influence on Contemporary Art, notes the difference between two different views of the ground...
View ArticleRodin’s Visceral Vision
The new Musée Rodin book does an excellent job of framing Rodin’s multi-faceted legacy. It covers the artist’s beginnings, historical contexts, studio practice, and artistic achievements, including the...
View ArticleAnd Another Thing…
“And Another Thing…” is an exhibition-based publication, but builds upon rather than accompanies its counterpart. It was published this summer to contextualise a 2011 show in CUNY, New York, that...
View ArticleGrand Arts: Visions that Provoke and Disrupt
Art creation takes more than time and money: it takes research, focus, and many kinds of support/teamwork. That’s one main message in Grand Arts 1995 – 2015 Problems and Provocations. When Glenn Harper...
View ArticleMaking Your Life as an Artist: Making Workbook
In a previous blog post I reviewed the book and digital download Making Your Life as an Artist by Andrew Simonet, a considered insight into the role of art and methods for working efficiently with an...
View ArticleWalk on the Beach: Things from the Sea, Volume One
Walk on the Beach: Things from the Sea, Volume One is a residual book, being a text and image diary of passing objects, and a short-term physical meeting of minds within the BABEL working group....
View ArticleLygia Pape: A Multitude of Forms
The Lydia Pape exhibition at the Met Bruer through July 23 is a revelation. Altogether, every aspect of its catalog demonstrates the artist’s originality, her ways of championing Brazil’s indigenous...
View ArticleClothes Few Dare to Wear
Rei Kawakubo invented Comme des Garçons (like some boys) in Japan in 1973, and her Paris debut in 1981 made fashion history. Rei’s art is boundary-breaking and remarkable: Women in Japan at that time...
View ArticleIleana Sonnabend and Arte Povera – Edited by Germano Celant
This exhibition catalog reminds us that performance art and some art made from discarded and daily use objects –and ingenuity — began in the 60s as playful investigations of process, concepts,...
View ArticleHow to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself without Selling...
Early on in the newly released seventh edition of her How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself without Selling Your Soul (Allworth Press), Caroll Michels notes that artists may spend...
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