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On Style and the Coherence of Work

By Joshua Weibley An image of a set of conditions (as in “medical imaging”) is an overview of these conditions which summarizes them. In this way, generally, images are the concise products of analysis; they simplify to explain and provide summary.

Scene downtown – Julie Mehretu’s mural and Skin Fruit at the NuMu

Kitty, my Milwaukee buddy, and I spent a misty afternoon with Cate two Sundays ago walking around lower Manhattan and going to the New Museum’s Skin Fruit show.  Part of our downtown walk was inspired by Calvin Thompkins’ New Yorker article about the $5 million mural by Julie Mehretu. $5 million? Kitty, who paints murals in Milwaukee, wanted to see this thing, and so did I.

Gallery Joe

Ink Blot Drawing, 12/26/1996Ink on paper21 7/8 x 16 ½ inchesimage provided by Gallery Joe What is Bruce Conner doing in an exhibit with Jacob El Hanani and Mark Lombardi? I ask myself, as I walk into Gallery Joe. Conner, who is in his 70s, is a trickster of an artist, a guy who likes to play games of all sorts with the art world–like refusing to sign his pieces and then telling his gallerist to forge the signature. He’s the guy whose “Bombhead,” an exploding head above a military jacket, was in the Big Nothing at the ICA. According ... More » »