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January 21, 2004 by Libby

…mural I visited this morning, also above a parking lot, was Michael Webb’s “Tree of Knowledge,” at 13th and Market. The expected content (a p.c. united nations of fruit pickers…

January 16, 2004 by Libby

Article alert

I thought I’d alert you to an article by Michael Kimmelman in the New York Times about Chuck Close and his printmaking process (vis a vis Close’s show at the…

December 28, 2003 by Libby

David Guinn inside

…and sold nearly everything he put on the wall (shown left, “Connie,” and below right, “Your Old Friend,” which weren’t for sale). His father, Michael Guinn, a second-generation member of…

December 11, 2003 by Libby

Up on 125th and Main St.

…Lee, Muhammed Ali and voila. Paul Pfeiffer’s tiny (maybe 3 inches wide) 20-second video loop, “Live Evil,” shows a headless Michael Jackson moonwalking as his upper body morphs into a…

October 5, 2003 by Roberta

Ebb, flow and coagulation

…and Gabbano (Dumb and Greedy). (for more information see his website) I give Michael Durham’s Pez dispenser “Fallen Rapper Series” high marks for having fun with it. You can read…

September 18, 2003 by Libby

Bring on Slought

A peek through the window at Slought Foundation offered some undefinable black blobby shapes that made me walk in. Michael Gitlin’s black pieces, sort of spandex-covered enormous shapes–that suggest a…

July 24, 2003 by Roberta

My nostalgia is your rubbish?

…a much better, more creepy explanation for this phenomenon in Michael Thompson’s 1979 bookRubbish Theory and in Arjun Appadurai’s work. Both talk about commodity theory- Thompson’s book elucidates the way…

June 12, 2003 by Libby

Inner visions

…cabinets are not so much furniture as curiosities in and of themselves, with their secret spaces already filled, and their public faces allusive and metaphorical. “Cirque de Cabinet,” by Michael…