Category Archives: Random Thoughts

Bellini’s Protestation

I recently found myself at The Frick Collection in New York (having temporarily escaped time and gravitational confines), where I was captivated by ‘St. Francis in the Desert’ – also called ‘St. Francis in Ecstasy.’ The artist Bellini raises endless questions for this visitor -I found some background on the protagonist of the picture: Trained [...]

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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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More Online Curating

Advice from artists – scratch banality, find gold by Regina Hackett

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Minus Space – Online Curating Projects

Here is a site with ongoing online curating projects. http://www.minusspace.com/category/viewlist/ Looking for more.

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Anticipating Ruin, Mining the Past

Looking forward… or is it all over?  If the current state of curated group shows is any indications, there may not be a way new way or a different way to find some meaning in the art being made now without looking backward.  Historical amnesia. All genres have been coopted and cyncisim is a style rather [...]

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Everyone Curating, All The Time.

If consuming was the essential activity of the late 20th century, then curating is its replacement in the 21st.

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Subverted Genres

Last week I saw the well-curated, mostly painting group show at Sue Scott Gallery. Subverted Genres curated by Gabriela Galati and Rebecca Mirsky.

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