Category: Art Museum

  • PBS’ Art 21 too risky for public school?

    “The foolish insistence of Dallas Independent School District to allow its teachers to teach this pornographic material and leftist drivel is a textbook example of a school district out of control, and an administration that should NO LONGER be funded by taxpayers.” So quotes a writer from Dallas in response to an article Sept. 22,…

  • Tara Donovan at The Met

    Tara Donovan (American, b. 1969)Untitled (Mylar) (detail), 2007Mylar and glue; 96 in. x 10 ft. x 1/2 in.© Tara Donovan, courtesy PaceWildenstein, New YorkPhoto: Dennis Crowley Tara Donovan is known for turning common, manufactured objects into abstract sculptural installations. Her work typically has dimension and substance—a 42” cube made from straight pins or amoebic honeycomb…

  • Fireworks artist shows at Guggenheim, Durango Herald, April 15, 2008

    Cai Guo-QiangInopportune: Stage One, 2004Nine cars and sequenced multichannel light tubesDimensions variableSeattle Art Museum, Gift of Robert M. Arnold, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum, 2006Exhibition copy installed at Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, 2008© Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation New York. Photo by David Heald. NEW YORK – Chinese…

  • Temporal Tenuosness: Whitney Biennial 2008

    Mika Rottenberg, Production still from Cheese, 2007.Digital video, color, sound; approximately 12 min.Collection of the artist. Below is the original article I wrote and submitted for publication: “A biennial is an exercise in imposing temporary order and control onto a situation that is, essentially, out of control,” writes Adam Weinberg, director of the Whitney Museum…

  • Cerebral art for modern minds, Durango Herald, April 8, 2008

    Daniel Joseph Martinez, “Divine Violence,” 2007,automotive paint on wood panel, dimensions variable.The article as it appeared in The Durango Herald: NEW YORK – “A biennial is an exercise in imposing temporary order and control onto a situation that is, essentially, out of control.” That’s what Adam Weinberg, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art…

  • Color as field, Durango Herald, Dec. 28, 2007

    Top: Frankenthaler’s “Flood, 1967” is synthetic polymer on canvas (124 by 140 inches). Middle: Mark Rothko’s oil “Number 18, 1951,” is 81 by 69 inches. Bottom: Helen Frankenthaler’s 1973 acrylic on canvas”Off White Square” (79 by 235 inches) is in the Denver Art Museum show “Color as Field: American Painting 1950-1975.” All photographs are courtesy…

  • MCA a glowing home for contemporary art, Durango Herald, Dec. 21, 2007

    The exterior of the new Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, which opened in October, is made of glass. The museum is on Delgany Street, northwest of the central cultural district.In 2005, architect David Adjaye described his design for the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver as a “city in a jewel box.” His concept was to…