June 24, 2008 by Roberta

Karl Benjamin uncovered and discovered at Geoform

Karl Benjamin. #5, 1994, oil on canvas, 122 x 122 cm (48 x 48 in)courtesy of the artist and Louis Stern Fine Arts Earlier this month artist and curator Julie…

June 24, 2008 by Roberta

Weekly Update — Mark Dion channels William Bartram at Bartram’s Garden

…“Hate Archive,” hateful matter the artist found. Mailed back but not unboxed, it’s too awful to look at. We can all imagine the racist, misogynist things in the boxes. The…

June 20, 2008 by Libby

On the road with Mark Dion at Bartram’s Garden

…culture, Dion creates a kind of archive that turns out to be provocative, intense and accessible. Mark Dion’s own drawings of specimens. At the top of the picture, the wheels…

June 16, 2008 by Libby

Dumpsters ‘r’ us–Daniel Petraitis at 201

…for $500, scrounge metal from around town and sell the metal at $500/day. A nice return on your investment, he pointed out. The obsessive repetitiveness of the images, the archive…

June 15, 2008 by Roberta

David Byrne’s Playing the Building

A passer by sits at David Byrne’s piano in Playing the Building in New York, a Creative Time project in 2008. Inside the Battery Maritime Building on Fridays, Saturdays and…

June 3, 2008 by Libby

Anne d’Harnoncourt obits and other related links

…Dobrin Museum’s Heart and Soul, by Melissa Dribben inside stories (the front page stories jumped to a two-page spread that included the top two of these) Philadelphia Museum of Art…

June 2, 2008 by Andrea Kirsh

An Eyefull in Old City

…paper, “drawings” on silver and three constructions which use crystals to capture radio waves. Bradshaw has long been associated with Merce Cunningham (for whom she designs sets and costumes) and…

May 27, 2008 by Andrea Kirsh

Picture Books: Sendak on Sendak and Beyond This Time and Place: Children’s Books in England

…wonderful range of illustrated books for children. Maurice Sendak, illustration from Where the Wild Things Are (1963) © Maurice Sendak The Rosenbach Museum and Library has drawn on it’s archive…