Let’s start by stating the obvious: international biennial exhibitions have been looking the same for quite a few years now. These exhibitions feature many of the same artists, and sometimes even the same works by …
Despite decades of scholarly investigation, we still only have a few hard facts about the painter known as Hieronymus Bosch. Even though he signed some of his paintings Jheronimus Bosch, he never affixed a date …
The past year brought many sad passings to the northern California art scene, but one that has received scant remark was that of James Albertson, whose battle with cardiovascular disease ended last July in Sacramento. …
By the time that you are reading this, you will have also read much of the hoopla surrounding the recent opening of the new UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). The rising …
I was late to the Mark Lombardi party. It was not until the beginning of 2004 that I had ever heard about him or his work, let alone ever having seen it. But it finally …
I swear, we were there on time. The website said that the recent incarnation of the Agnes Denes Wheatfield in Milan would be open until 8:00 pm, but when we arrived at a few minutes …
By the time any of you are reading this, I will have already given my eulogy for Richard Berger, and only time will tell if it accorded with what I am writing here. Richard passed …
Performance art is getting some attention as of late, but maybe not the kind of attention that it needs. What it is getting is a lot of rah rah chatty chat, and what it is …
Taipei Biennial Taipei Fine Arts Museum The Great Acceleration 13 September 2014–4 January 2015 At the outset, let’s get the idea of acceleration straight and up to date: using the parlance of geological time, we …
Ghosts, Spies, and Grandmothers Seoul Museum of Art September 1-November 23, 2014 It shakes out like this: on the odd-numbered years, we have the big European biennials like the Venice Biennale, Manifesta, and the Istanbul …
In a review of one of the past decade’s many unmemorable Whitney Biennials, Peter Schjeldahl’s takeaway was that we had come to a pass where critics would have to content themselves with parsing the narrowing …
I still don’t know what identity means, and it is possible that I never will. With that much said, I can now confess that I am at long last starting to get a sense of …
Now that we live in a world where everybody is a hipster, that means that nobody is a hipster anymore, because by definition, to be a hipster means to partake of a kind of elitism …
