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Dana Schutz, the book

Dana Schutz‘s new monograph covering works from 2001-2009 is a nice coffee table book.  With 100 color plates and two short pieces of writing (taking up a scant 9 pages), the book is not a scholarly look at the artist’s work.  She surely deserves that book and it will probably come, say with a big museum show. Meanwhile, for Schutz fans, this book is pure mind-bending eye candy.

Ashes to ashes, mud to mud — After Nature at the New Museum

Last Thursday we saw two excellent exhibits. It may be summer in New York but the art is still fine. Here’s our review of After Nature at the New Museum. Look for a post on MoMA’s Home Delivery exhibit soon. Werner Herzog (b. 1942) And A Smoke Arose—Lessons of Darkness 1992 16mm film transferred to DVD, sound, color, 5 min Courtesy Werner Herzog Film GmbH, Munich With this exhibit the New Museum has shown that they’re going to march to their own drumbeat and we’re ready to listen here on artblog. It’s a particularly European show with lots of male frontal ... More » »

New York out-takes

Richard Serra sculptures in the Sculpture Garden, MoMA. Note the photographer on the roof taking overhead pictures. MoMA was packed last Thursday. I said to Steve remember when we used to come visit the old MoMA, the little squishy MoMA? We would make trips to New York from Madison all the time in the late 1970s. We were always there the week between Christmas and New Years, a high tourist invasion time. Yet our trips to MoMA — in my rosy memory — were not marred by uber-crowded conditions. Crowd in front of Picasso’s Demoiselles D’Avignon, now celebrating its hundredth ... More » »