[Yes. After consideration and no space to just place stuff, here we go again . . . I re-framed why I shut this thing down exactly two years ago.]
from Hyperallergic Weekend, July 28, 2019, with >>s
In Praise of Painting's Ambiguity: The literalism of 1960s Formalism has been replaced by an insistence on the factual, which leaves little room for the imagination or for speculation.
John Yau
>>The factual is always and everywhere provocation to imagine and speculate.
The Defiant Undercurrents of Feminine Art: While many of Julia Kuhl’s paintings are funny and provocative others are more troubling, alluding to the ways women’s personal, professional, and sexual boundaries often go broadly unacknowledged.
Megan N. Liberty
>>And how would a painting allude if not only through an interpretation? Let me see/decide for myself. Key-tag for visual scrutiny, _boundary_.
Our Love for Fetishes: Sculptor Margaret Wharton and painter Issy Wood are both open to the irrational currents flowing through our lives.
John Yau
>>How much like me would they, or their works, be? Or if flowing through (all) our lives, what's the big deal?
A Curator's Perspective on Davide Sorrenti's Fashion Photography: The photographer captured the currents of hip hop, skater, grunge, and rave culture that flourished in downtown Manhattan in the 1990s.
Nicole Miller
>>Only voyeurs who wish to expand their breadth of visual coup count need peep.
An Unlikely Marriage of Science and Art: In the hate-convulsed worldscape of today, Heather Dewey-Hagborg proposes oxytocin as that long looked-for potion: The Love Drug.
Anthony Haden-Guest
>>The differences in responses to "different types" of oxytocin among males and females suggests Heather may not be onto something, at least as far as males are concerned. And she can't be suggesting we have more amourous females than males running around. What images come to mind with that solution to the hate-convulsed worldscape? Okay, many if not most males are so easily distracted. But after the post-coital smoke? er vape? What then?
Jamila Woods and Her Ancestral Spirits: Woods’s new album Legacy! Legacy! is framed by the presence of a larger community — the enacted community of choir singing and an imagined community of Black artists.
Lucas Fagen
>>How present, or large, can "a larger community" be if confined to a choir, much less combined with an imagined group of whatever sort? Read, or dismiss for lack of coherence.
Dora Maar, More than a Surrealist Muse: The Centre Pompidou’s Dora Maar honors Picasso’s famous muse for the pivotal part she clearly, and often daringly, played in the establishment of the European avant-garde.
Eileen G'Sell
>>An almost unknown--to me--muse had a pivotal part to play and I am just now re-minded of her name? Bold claims for establishing if even partly something pan-european . . . I should have been aware . . .
