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U.S. debut–Bill Viola comes to Pafa and leaves behind a gem

Bill Viola came to Pennsylvania Academy last month for the opening of “Ocean without a Shore,” his three-channel video installation in its American debut! The installation –a new purchase by the museum to be permanently on display in the Morris Gallery — is installed as a triptych in what’s now a dark, chapel-like space, where the piece casts a moody, elegiac spell. The work seems to conjure up the spirits of the dead with cinematic special effects and sound right out of the Matrix.

News: New ICA curator, video art history @ PAFA, opportunities, and more!

News (Inaccurate information has been removed from this post). ICA appoints new curator The Institute of Contemporary Art has appointed Anthony Elms as a new Associate Curator. Elms has worked as an  independent curator and writer, and he was Assistant Director of Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago for six years. He replaces Jenelle Porter who has taken a position at ICA Boston.

Art Basel Miami Beach and Associated Art in Miami

This was the fifth time I’d gone to ABMB (Art Basel Miami Beach) and the multi-ring circus that includes the peripheral art fairs, local museums, collectors who run private museum spaces, temporary public projects and various lectures, performances, film showings and parties. I decided to take it easy and be guided by the interests of several friends who were also in Miami for the events, spending two days with tv news producer, Jake Haselkorn, who’s spent the past 20 years covering Asia and my good friend, Berta Sichel, Director of the Film Department at the Reina Sophia Museum, Madrid, as ... More » »

Moving Pictures, Part 2

Eve Sussman, 89 Seconds at Alcazar, detail Eve Sussman‘s “89 Seconds at Alcazar” is now playing at the Main Line Arts Center. Run and see it. The piece, a slow motion and atmospheric re-imagining of the painter Velazquez‘s “Las Meninas” is full of so much grace, beauty, swishing petticoats and implied court intrigue that I sat through it twice and almost couldn’t drag myself out of the room after that, so hypnotic and wonderful is the work. Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas 1656-57 “89 seconds” appeared in the 2004 Whitney Biennial but I, for one, slept through it at that time. ... More » »