There are three deaths. The first is when the body ceases to function. The second is when the body is consigned to the grave. The third is that moment, sometime in the future, when your name is spoken for the last time. ― David Eagleman, Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives I went on… (read more)
No waiting, no prefaces, no delays. Here it is. My first ever Top Ten list. 10. Inhotim Inhotim is a 240 acre botanical garden/museum/restaurant complex in Brumhadinho, Minas Gerais, Brazil. I had the opportunity to go there this year and I have to say it was the most amazing art pilgrimage I have ever done. It… (read more)
This post is in response to Ken Johnson’s 25 October review of ‘Now Dig This! Art & Black Los Angeles,’ at MoMA PS1 It was sent via email as a letter to the editor of the New York Times on 27 October 2012. Dear Madam/Sir: I am an artist who lives and works in Boston,… (read more)
I’m standing in the Mario Testino; IN YOUR FACE show at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and I hear three ladies a little older than me (I’m 49) talking about how upset they are about the way that a doberman is represented in a large photo of Gisele Bündchen’s husband. They thought someone must have… (read more)
I have a tremendous love for the work of Kerry James Marshall. So I was completely thrilled when I heard that the Harvard Museums had acquired Untitled, his 12-panel woodcut and installed it at the Sackler Museum. The first time I saw this piece was in New York at Jack Shainman. It seemed to big… (read more)
The visible world, I think, is abstract and mysterious enough, I don’t think one needs to depart from it in order to make art. -Philip Guston A lot of times during slide talks, there is this kind of disclaimer for painting, “You have to see it in person to really appreciate it.” I am not… (read more)
There hasn’t been a Susanna Coffey show in Boston in a long time. It’s been long overdue. She continues to be one of my favorite artists since she changed my life in a studio visit in graduate school. Her last solo show at Alpha Gallery was in 2004. Her work has really changed in… (read more)
Ori Gersht: History Repeating is a big show, both in terms of the amount of works presented, the space occupies, and the themes it addresses. It’s always really exciting when a museum decides to give over a lot of space to a living artist. You have the opportunity at these times to see what they… (read more)
It’s been raining for the past three days here in Sào Paulo. I have just finished installing my exhibition at Mendes Wood, a wonderful gallery here in the Jardins area. The show is called companions and it’s my first solo show with the gallery. The work is in a beautiful irregular polygon gallery with one… (read more)