March 2004 Archive

Guardian angels

Say what?

Clouds from both sides

The Great Integrater

Post by Shelley Spector

What’s good at The Print Center

If you go upstairs at The Print Center there’s some work worth seeing. First, there’s Debra Werblud’s “Totentanz” (or Dance of Death) installation (above), which captures and reflects light against dark. Thirty curved plexiglas sheets printed with photographs of vultures directly borrowed from Eadweard Muybridge’s motion studies, hang from the ceiling on down, in front of a light source. The sheets swoop and bank, the dark, forbidding birds blocking light even as the plexiglas glows around them. Even better are the two grids on either side, 230 zinc plates each etched with an olive tree in infinite detail and variety. ... More » »

Pricing those Whitney Biennial stars

Pow! "To Smithereens" scores

Green c’s

Manet and the gift shop

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