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Hunger Art (Chaim Soutine)

Posted on August 22, 2018 by

“Still Life with Herring” sounds like a Jewish spoof on the French fine art tradition. From the same milieu of Russian Jews in Paris, Chaim Soutine is the anti-Chagall. There is nothing dreamy about his work. There is no lift … Continue reading →

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Wild Precarious Life (Cecilia Vicuña)

Posted on August 1, 2018 by

This recent show of paintings, sculptural works, and installation by Cecilia Vicuña conjures together feminist cosmologies of raw and dyed wooliness, wild animal figures, and the drift of precarious forms. The painted figures are seers. Protective, they represent resistant political forces of … Continue reading →

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Placing Memory (Gal Cohen & Zac Hacmon)

Posted on July 30, 2018 by

Some photos of paintings by Gal Cohen and sculpture by Zac Hacmon from their recent and thoughtful two-person show downtown on the Lower East, Placing Memory. With Hadera, Israel as their critical touchstone, the paintings explore the evisceration of the … Continue reading →

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Posthuman (Michal Rovner) Evolution

Posted on July 26, 2018 by

Michal Rover’s latest show at Pace, Evolution, is hardcore posthuman. Viewed from the chilly distance of a desert, the human is seen reproduced and submerged in a collective mass of de-realized figures on the move going nowhere, submerged in technology, across … Continue reading →

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(Synthesis of Intuitions) Philosophy Art Race Religion (Adrian Piper)

Posted on July 25, 2018 by

A series of black and white photographs, Food for the Spirit (1971) documents the artist and philosopher Adrian Piper, holed up and isolated at home, having thrown herself one summer into a close reading of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.  … Continue reading →

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(Interview with Batsheva Goldman-Ida) Hasidic Art & the Kabbalah

Posted on July 1, 2018 by

Originally posted on The Book of Doctrines and Opinions::
The presentation of history using objects is currently the trend in many books and exhibits. There are books on the history of a given topic in 8, 10, or 50 objects.…

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(Agitated) Philosophy and Art (Adrian Piper)

Posted on June 28, 2018 by

Check out the big Adrian Piper exhibition currently at MoMA. Her work goes back to the 1970s. Piper worked at the intersection of art, philosophy, and politics. I am going to write more about her later, but for now I’m … Continue reading →

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