Hello everyone. I am busy working on the final touches for Ten Verses issue one, due Sunday ( Read more... )

With a signature low horizon line and muted color palette, Esser’s Cap-Antifer photographs (2000) of tide pools, beaches, and limestone cliffs follow the footsteps of Guy de Maupassant, who researched this area of the Normandy coast on behalf of Gustave Flaubert in 1877. Every detail is fastidiously recorded by the camera, a mechanical metaphor of ( Read more... )

This compact survey of five recent films and Halcion Sleep, a 1994 video, explores in depth one aspect of Rodney Graham’s artistic practice. For the past fifteen years, Graham has created films, videos, photographs, music compositions and recordings, installations, and books to explore the limits of visual perception. He often does this by drawing ( Read more... )

In a moment marked by hyperinflated production budgets and space-consuming installations, it is refreshing to see an exhibition by an artist devoted to the everyday, the banal, and the humble. Zoe Leonard has mined this territory for years, and it is her dedication to her subject matter and consistent ability to evoke quiet beauty that prevents her ( Read more... )

There is much progress on the journal front: submissions are rolling in, I am being invited to participate in panel discussions about publishing, artists whose work interests me are proactively contacting me to inquire about my writing and Ten Verses, and much progress is being made on the design and information architecture aspects of the website ( Read more... )

From e-mail correspondence:

I made my first visit to the CCS Museum at Bard College on Sunday. A free day trip. I enjoyed being out in the sun and lying on the grass, as well as having an opportunity to talk at length with the museum's curator and a number of Chelsea art world people that I normally only see in passing. I met a number of students ( Read more... )

The looting and destruction of culturally and historically significant sites in Iraq was commented on rarely before or during the recent attacks. Now this piece runs in The Independent and compounds the sense of horror I still feel at all that has transpired of late. Not only have there been contemporary casualties, but now the voices of many ( Read more... )

Thomas Struth at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Feb. 4 - May 18, 2003 ( Read more... )

Dear friends and colleagues,

I am happy to announce the forthcoming publication of Ten Verses ( http://www.tenverses.org ), a new online journal of art and architecture criticism. You are receiving this message for one of two reasons: 1) We have spoken directly about this publication and I am now following up on our conversation to encourage your ( Read more... )

Yesterday and today have been difficult for so many. In my own small, sheltered, privileged, and distanced way, they have been difficult for me as well. I have, somewhat unexpectedly, had a quite visceral reaction to world events: my frustrations and laments created a pain in my stomach that has hardened into a small stone I carry with me. Never ( Read more... )