Tag Archives: Museums & Galleries

Votive Objects & Material Religion

Posted on January 16, 2019 by

Went to see “Agents of Faith: Votive Objects in Time and Place” at Bard Graduate Center Gallery. I understood that I was off to look at objects, but what are votive objects? Something loosely to do with “religion.” What I … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment

Vibrant Matter of Painted Objects (Yoshiaki Mochizuki)

Posted on November 24, 2018 by

Wandering around Chelsea last summer, we stumbled into Marlborough Contemporary and got to see Palenville, a solo show by Yoshiaki Mochizuki. It was not immediately clear what these things are. Jewel-like things, they turned out to be paintings. They are … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

(Lachrymose) Floating Jews and Other Black Squares (Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich)

Posted on November 21, 2018 by

O Me O My, I’ve been lachrymose, this time at the Jewish Museum having seen Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant-Garde in Vitebsk, 1918-1922. The exhibit is super cool, showing art made by Chagall with these two masters of the … Continue reading →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , | 1 Comment

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 →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

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 →

Posted in uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment