Images in Search of a Narrative

12Oct08

Jeremy Shaw’s 7 Minutes is an arresting work of video art.  Currently in the loop of 25 videos that comprise Thermostat: Video and the Pacific Northwest in SAM’s Ketcham Forum Gallery, I pass the installation daily when moving between my cube and the museum galleries.  I also passed it daily for a period of time [...]

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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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The Exhibition Age

24May08

“It is now widely accepted that the art history of the second half of the 20th century is no longer a history of artworks, but a history of exhibitions.” (Harald Szeemann, via Art History Newsletter)
I thought of this quotation as I plan a quick excursion to Los Angeles this weekend and realize I am most [...]

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