May 31, 2010
Usually at some point greatness disappoints. Even very great artists sometimes falter, lose their way, run out of steam. Not so Louise Bourgeois, who transmuted a family story of paternal infidelity into a narrative of mythological dimension that she always insisted was the primary driving force of her work, and for whom that self-mythologized personal narrative [...]
Posted in art, sculpture | Tagged Louise Bourgeois, Lucy Lippard
May 23, 2010
The overall atmosphere of Friday’s symposium at MoMA, “Art Institutions and Feminist Politics Now,” was more low key than the 2007 MoMA symposium The Feminist Future: Theory in Practice in the Visual Arts. Although the museum claimed the event was sold out, the auditorium never seemed completely full and the overall sense of buzz was [...]
Posted in art | Tagged curating, feminism, feminist art, Ilse Bing, Kathy Halbreich, MoMA, photography, Womanhouse
May 20, 2010
This post contains video clips that may not play in some email programs. It is a fun and utterly cosmopolitan thing to do to go see a movie alone the first day it comes out on a cool grey late spring day in mid-week, at mid-afternoon in New York City. It’s a Truffaut/Godard thing to [...]
Posted in art, film | Tagged film, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Jeanne Moreau, Jules and Jim, La Chinoise, Nouvelle Vague, The 400 Blows
May 16, 2010
Next Friday May 21, there will be a symposium at MoMA on Art Institutions and Feminist Politics Now (where “an international group of artists, writers, curators, historians and activists discuss the impact of recent debates about art and feminism on exhibitions, collections, pedagogy, and cultural politics.”). This continues a series of major feminism-related events held [...]
Posted in art | Tagged abstract art, Alina Szapocznikow, feminist art, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, MoMA, Myron Stout, women artists
May 14, 2010
An earlier, unfinished version of this post went out to my subscribers by mistake yesterday although I immediately deleted it and it does not appear on the blog itself. Also, for subscribers who receive these posts in their email: this post contains videos that you will not see in the email program, you have to [...]
Posted in art, film | Tagged drawing, film, Georges Méliès, Marina Abramovic, Mimi Gross, performa09, Red Grooms, Rudy Burckhardt, William Kentridge
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