Previously published on Goatdog’s Movies, goatdog.com, December 4, 2004 Most of the 201 minutes of Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles are taken up with the camera observing the protagonist, Jeanne Dielman (Delphine Seyrig), meticulously doing household chores. That’s nearly three and a half hours of real-time housecleaning, washing dishes, preparing […]
Author: Rebecca
Overlay: A Conversation with travis (interviewed by Rebecca Zorach)
That’s not a typo: it’s just travis, with a small t. travis is unclassifiable: painter, performance artist, noise punk rock front man, urban gardener, world traveler, speed-demon of a typist. We met up in April in Backstory Café and talked about his current work, his travels, his experiences with Rainbow PUSH and Johnson Publishing, and […]
And now Blackness…
A few weeks ago, the artist Cauleen Smith asked why art historians had not responded to a recent revelation about Malevich’s famous painting, Black Square. It would appear that a rather embarrassing inscription has been found under its top layer of black paint: “Battle of negroes in a dark cave.” This iconic painting (and I […]
Will I Remember the Freedom?
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: The Serenity of Madness, Sullivan Galleries of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, until December 8 Chicago is very fortunate to have the Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s exhibition of video work, The Serenity of Madness (curated by Bangkok-based, likewise SAIC-trained curator Gridthiya Gaweewong) up for another month at the Sullivan Galleries of […]
Gerald Williams
In honor of the upcoming opening of Gerald Williams’s exhibition at Kavi Gupta, here’s the interview I did with him for Never The Same in 2011 (published 2013).
There is nothing beautiful in this
(reposted from http://overease.blogspot.com/) Among other things, I teach and write about public art. It’s strangely difficult to define “public art.” It may be understood as art found in public space and freely accessible to all, but it typically also refers to art that’s funded by public money—which is to say taxpayer money. Less often, it refers […]