I’m not saying I love Monet, but someone mentioned to me there were Monet posters for sale at Norris and I sprinted there instead of getting lunch like I meant to.
No Loitering: Jaar’s Radical Approach to the Museum Photograph & Film
In the MCA’s photography exhibition WITNESS, the museum draws from its permanent collection to depict the photographer as both artist and spectator- an exploration of the finite encounter behind the photograph rather than the infinite interpretations the photograph evokes. TheRead more…
Deliverance-Thrilling and Prejudiced
“You don’t beat it. You don’t beat this river,” says Lewis, portrayed by Burt Reynolds, after canoeing the exhaustive rapids of the Cahulawassee River. Indeed, Lewis does not beat the river, but to his credit, he did not anticipate beingRead more…
Protected: Grosse Fatigue: A Meditation on the Maddening World of Museums
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A New Look at Old Ideas
“What do ballistic gel blocks, a television commercial, business logos, a large-scale video production of gunfire, and a discarded Honda Dream motorcycle have in common?” When I walked into the MCA’s exhibition featuring The Propeller Group, this question first greetedRead more…
Ghost Producers in Electronic Dance Music: Have We Been Lied To?
With the boom of Electronic Dance Music, also known as EDM, and its overall effort to familiarize itself with general audience since the late 2000s and the early 2010s, many listeners who have previously distanced themselves from electronic music nowRead more…
Exploring Women in a Chelsea Gallery
In the first half of 2016, the FLAG Art Foundation opened its doors to feminism and the words that encompass women–past, present and future. Betty Tompkins is a self-proclaimed activist and feminist who has been depicting work involving sexual actsRead more…
The Downward Spiral: Untangling Danny Brown’s Depraved Masterpiece
It takes a little elbow grease to polish the layers of grit and grime off of Atrocity Exhibition before one realizes they’re holding gold. Danny Brown’s fourth studio album is dense. This exhibits itself not only in Brown’s lyricism,Read more…
Between Humans and the Universe: All We Have are the Connections We Make
What Do We Do with the Universe? We Gaze “Wonder is the beginning of all wisdom,” says Aristotle in Metaphysics. “And looking into the starry sky is the beginning of wonder,” say I. Andrew Yang starts his Interviews withRead more…
Light on Display in Rick Guest’s New Series “Americana”
Photograph by Rick Guest. Image courtesy of East Photographic. Light is consistently the most intentional and care-given aspect of each photograph that British photographer Rick Guest takes. Car manufacturers like Bentley and Ferrari have hired Guest to photograph theirRead more…
Ambiguous Ambassadors
“Global art history” is a current buzz-phrase for art historians. As the humanities continue to become more self-aware, they have been making strides to move past their enduring parochialisms. In art history, this has manifested as a conscious movement awayRead more…
Where O America are you: Exploring Francesca Anderegg’s “Wild Cities”
Winding through the neon lights of electronic dance music, the dusty panes of Appalachian fiddling, and the fluid shadows of post-Romanticism, Francesca Anderegg delivers a dynamic and adventurous look into the contemporary life of classical music. In her latest album,Read more…
The Exquisite Pain of Moving On
No matter how many times I listen to it, hearing the introductory chords to “Tailor” by Anaïs Mitchell is always like biting into oven-warm, homemade chocolate cake. There is decadent richness in the reverb on her acoustic guitar, warmth inRead more…