Posts Tagged ‘seattle museums’
While having my first (late) encounter with Alloy of Love and Heaven is Being a Memory to Others at the Frye last week, I found myself reading artist Dario Robleto’s labels in partial disbelief, and I thought to myself, “Josiah McElheny has taught me well.” McElheny’s An Historical Anecdote About Fashion was the first [...]
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1. The Forty Part Motet by Janet Cardiff at the Tacoma Art Museum (opened last week).
Image: Janet Cardiff, The Forty Part Motet, by Janet Cardiff (A Re-working of Spem in Alium Nunquam Habui 1573, by Thomas Tallis). 40 loudspeakers mounted on stands, placed in an oval, amplifiers, and playback computer, 14 minute loop with 11 [...]
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In the June/July issue of Art in America, Irving Sandler contributes a strong article arguing against a revisionist understanding of the Abstract Expressionist movement being largely motivated by the Cold War ( “Abstract Expressionism and the Cold War” 65-74). Some of the article’s most poignant arguments emerge when Sandler discusses the apprehension, and often [...]
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Tags: abstract expressionism, art history, criticism, modern art, revisionist art history, seattle museums, theory
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