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Weekly Update – The Great Society at Klein Art Gallery

This week’s Weekly has my review of The Great Society at Klein Art Gallery. Below is the copy with a picture and more at flickr (I’ll put more in the post later). Here’s Libby’s flickr setIrony Rich“The Great Society” invites you to drop out. Newsreader in the faux news program in Joulia Strauss’s video in the Great Society. “The Great Society” at Klein Art Gallery is a dirge in eight-part harmony about our not-so-great society. Even if you don’t know the show’s historical reference (Lyndon Johnson’s optimistic social program of the 1960s), you’ll grasp its irony. Guest curator Daniel Fuller’s ... More » »

Cornell clarified

Ever wonder why everyone raves about those obscure Joseph Cornell boxes? I, for one, thought perhaps they were part of some culture past to which we had lost the key. Well, four brief explications by Cornell collector Robert Lehrman of some of his own Cornell boxes ran in the Penn alumni magazine, the Pennsylvania Gazette. The commentaries were captivating and poetic, and were meant to pique interest in a new, picture-loaded book–”Joseph Cornell: Shadowplay … Eterniday”– published for Cornell’s centennial birthday celebration. Lehrman is one of the authors. Check it out.