Video and the Dark

30May08

The Getty Center’s California Video is an amazing retrospective considered through the lens of a place intimately involved this medium, both artistically and in the mainstream. Walking through the galleries painted black and lined with primitive and contemporary televisions showing a collection of highly influential works by artists such as John Baldessari, Chris Burden, [...]

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Strangers in Our Own Worlds

12May08

I’m dying to see Doug Aitken’s Migration: 365 Hotel Rooms, which Tyler Green recently blogged about in relation to the Carnegie International 2008 and Roberta Smith cites as one of the few pieces in Life on Mars that succeeds in exploring the exhibition’s concept as well as the catalog’s essays manages to do. The [...]

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Sorry, Out of Gas

15Apr08

I rarely can muster enthusiasm for architecture exhibitions. In the past, I have occasionally admitted this to colleagues, and I am typically met with a look of mystified offense as I continue on to explain how elevations do little for me and how models, while often the marks of excellent craftsmanship, have never inspired [...]

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