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Curating the personal – I Just Can’t Get You Out of My Mind at Seraphin Gallery

Hiro Sakaguchi is an honest curator. His curatorial statement for “I Just Can’t Get You Out of My Mind” at Seraphin Gallery reads: “I choose artists whose works I want to see again for selfish reasons.” Simple enough. And, as uncalculated as his curation may be, Sakaguchi still managed to weave together a diverse and talented group of artists he discovered in the Philadelphia-area, all of whom tackle conceptually and aesthetically complicated issues with ease. By using personal taste to navigate the curatorial process, one begins to understand just what it is that Sakaguchi is interested in: detailed, relatively small ... More » »

Boys will be boys: Martin Kippenberger; The Problem Perspective at MoMA

The half-life of transgression in the art world has grown awfully short.  The first U. S.  retrospective of Martin Kippenberger, the German artist whose finger was usually aimed at the eyes of his viewers closed this weekend at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Weekly Update – ICA Spring Shows

This week’s Weekly includes my review of the ICA’s Spring Shows (all except Soft Sites in the Project Space). Here’s the link to the art page and below is the copy with some extra pictures. And here’s Libby’s post on the ICA shows. Here’s my flickr set with shots of Zoe and others and the art at the opening last month.Ode de CologneGerman spaces collide with Philly faces at the ICA. Strauss’s image Daddy Tattoo. For a harrowing update on the woman in this photo, whose name is Monique, see Strauss’s blog post.WARNING: It might make you cry. Germany meets ... More » »