Author Archives: Rick Romanov

Louise Lawler, Fitting at Metro Pictures , and Practice

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Thoughts on seeing Fitting At Metro Pictures — Louise Lawler’s show of pictures of installed and stored artworks — straight ones and others run through Photoshop so that they match the proportions of the walls they are affixed to height to height and width to width.  One — odd maybe — why not change the [...]

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Dear Madam

I spend a lot of time on the computer now.  Bought myself a new one. Aluminum unibody.  Dual cores.  2.66 GHz, 8 gigs.  Clean.  De toute façon.   Turn it on and the first look is blue like the real regard is up or out there.  No such luck.  Like being buried alive. Schlafwandeln. Awesome Cassette Tapes [...]

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She: Marina Abromovic at the Atrium of the Museum of Modern Art ( The Artist is Present )

Well it might be a stretch.  She must think those people standing and walking around are looking.  She’s kind of still there.  All those people thinking she’s got something — just looking straight ahead.  That long dress.  That little plinth she’s standing on.  That kind of white greasepaint.  That pharaoh getup. Wait a minute.  No [...]

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Adverse Possession: NEVER CAN SAY GOODBYE at the former Tower Records

“Gonna ring a few bells in your ear / ring a few bells / oh yeah right now / baby don’t you know it’s in your ear” Jessie Hill, “Ooh Poo Pah Doo” While back and forth is ongoing around the advance of digital media and connected issues around authorship and ownership — copyright very [...]

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