New Online: A Lecture and A Roundtable Discussion
I’m happy to be able to share a lecture I gave at the RISD Museum last October, “Mira Schor / Living between Visuality, Materiality, and Language.” This is a lecture on my dual practice of painting and...
View ArticleLooking for Art to Love, in another city
The essence of love is that you never know from where Cupid’s arrow will fly. I went to Berlin for the first time last month, in part because I needed to find new old art to love, old great art that...
View ArticleA Necessary Man: Leon Golub / Riot @ Hauser & Wirth
You walk into the room With your pencil in your hand You see somebody naked And you say, “Who is that man?” The thrill of opening the door of a gallery and immediately seeing a masterpiece. Just...
View ArticleMiss Piggy and Madame de Beauvoir–A New Fable of La Fontaine: Cochon et Castor
There is a certain kind of news story that gets introduced by friends on Facebook as “Not The Onion.” This is a discussion prompted by one such headline. Let me try to contextualize the recent...
View ArticleJust a short message from Venus
This morning Ben Davis published a piece on Artnet entitled “Why Are There Still So Few Successful Women Artists?” Thanks to Ben Davis for addressing this issue and for his constant focus on important...
View Article“Creatives”–A Facebook conversation
A word enters the culture and as its usage widens, its ideological meaning become clearer. The usage of the terms “creative” retroactively applied to a 1970s situation made me post a statement on...
View ArticleOrson and Edwin and other pleasures
As we enter the dog days of August here’s a little recap of some pleasures from the past few months that have stuck with me and that I’d love to share. 1. This year is Orson Welles‘ centenary and in...
View ArticleQuick Responses, then and now
Hello again. A Year of Positive Thinking continues but the facts of everyday life are such that it has been impossible to find time to see much art or sit down for a day to address for this site any...
View ArticleMy generation and Paris
We were born in the safe interval between catastrophes. Which is worse? To have been born in a catastrophic moment and live life at all times informed by danger, fear, and the necessities of bare...
View ArticleHandmaids’ Tales–a story in the New York Times
Azadeh Moaveni‘s article “ISIS Women and Enforcers in Syria Recount Collaboration, Anguish and Escape” is one of the few stories in The New York Times that I read every word of. It gives an insight...
View ArticleNormalizing inequity
I just saw a repost of “The Problem of the Overlooked Female Artist: An Argument for Enlivening a Stale Model of Discussion,” an article by Ashton Cooper published on Hyperallergic over a year ago in...
View ArticleEva Hesse documentary
The art documentary obligatory scene of museum or gallery viewers milling around a show of works by the subject of the documentary is one of the most boring tropes of the genre. People holding their...
View Articlesecond edition
Writing online allows you the ability, offers the temptation, and even imposes the necessity of writing fast and clicking on the “publish” button to meet the news cycle. (I’ve written about this...
View ArticleHey Jill Soloway who you going to get to play me on your Womanhouse series?
It took a while for the full implications of a small item I read in Robin Pogrebin’s “Inside Art” column in the Times earlier this month to sink in, “Judy Chicago Does TV.” The first sentence–“An...
View Articlewho ya gonna call?
I wonder what movies people were going to see in Germany the summer of 1932, in the period preceding the final election for the office of President of the Reich, when Paul von Hindenburg was elected,...
View ArticleTangible Visuality: Stuart Davis, Carmen Herrera, and Hilma af Klint
Three exhibitions currently on view in New York City–Stuart Davis: In Full Swing, Carmen Herrera: Lines of Sight, and the Hilma af Klint exhibition that is secreted within The Keeper exhibition at the...
View ArticleThe sign of the crime
This morning I’m thinking back to a fantastic conference that took place at Hunter College Saturday April 25, 1992, “Women Tell the Truth: A Conference on Parity, Power and Sexual Harassment,” speakers...
View ArticleFail-Safes
This blog contains some embedded film clips that can only be viewed if you read the blog post online at A Year of Positive Thinking, rather than in your email if you are a subscriber. Just click on the...
View Article“I need help”
A former student messages me on Facebook early this morning that she needs help. I assume she means it was the dark night of a terrible election and she doesn’t know how to go on, what to do or think....
View ArticleFascism Fear Meter: November 17, 2016
I find each day my fascism fear meter rises as the day goes by. Here a notebook sketch done yesterday just to move my hand, as, in the late afternoon, the fear meter was high. The text is: November 17...
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