On Point 2.13: Scaling Down Biennial Fever
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …