Office Plants in Odd Places
They are everywhere:
Tacita Dean’s Fatigues
Beautiful chalk drawings at Marian Goodman Gallery. These drawings were originally installed in a building starting from an upper floor and lower floor. The sequence follows the glacial peaks of the Hindu Kush down to the Kabul river that swells and floods with the melting snows. Downward gravity of the installation from one floor to …
Boredom
There was an interesting and sometimes hilarious front page article in the Wall Street Journal yesterday (Feb. 26) about the study of monotony and boredom — Interesting Fact: There’s a Yawing Need for Boring Professors. What caught my eye was the ways the researchers try to bore their subjects. “But finding a clip to induce boredom …
Last Address by Ira Sachs
Last week I popped in at the opening of the NLE Curatorial Lab show “Gathering Place” on West 8th Street. It was packed so unfortunately I didn’t get a great look at the work. But there was one room with a video screen that wasn’t too crowded. On the screen Ira Sachs’s Last Address was playing. …
At the Berlinale Feb 9-16
I was a terrible tourist in Berlin. Committing to the Berlin Film Festival meant not seeing much of the city. Instead I’d thumb through the Forum and Panorama sections of the catalog over coffee. I chose films and, just in case, back-up films. By bike, foot and U-ban I shuttled between the Delphi, Cubix, Arsenal, …
Berlin: On the way to the movies
While in Berlin, I didn’t get to the Stasi museum as planned. Or the Pergemon Museum. My longest bike rides were at night when I couldn’t really see anything. I only had one sausage the entire week I was there! But I did spend several hours at the Gemäldegalerie. I had originally planned to just …
Upcoming Show
I’m going to be part of this group show in March. Check it out.
It’s Our Service To Pleasure You
It’s Our Service To Pleasure You cups are now for sale through Fuse Works. Fuse Works exhibits and promotes multiples and editions by artists who approach editioned artwork as a field of artistic discourse and inquiry itself, rather than simply a means of mass-producing their efforts.
Tabu by Miguel Gomes
Did I dream this monkey-husband, inaudible crocodile of a cinemacartographic melodrama?! Gian Luca Venura, the narrator of Part 2: Paradise, cannot say at what moment desire turns to love, nor can I say at what moment I stopped squirming in my seat and finally let myself be swept away. 2012, it seems, was a good year …
She Went Back to Dolls After That
Rosemarie Trockle at the New Museum What I liked best about the Rosemarie Trockle show at the New Museum was the almost baffling diversity of work. A lot of it I didn’t really get into or didn’t get at all. And some of it I liked a lot. I appreciated also the inclusion …
Amour, A Separation
Last year the front running contender and winner in the Oscar’s Foreign Film Category was the A Separation. It’s a film about a couple in a difficult situation. Simin, played by the lovely Leila Hatami, wants to leave Iran (I’d leave with her in a heartbeat). But Nader, her husband, feels he must stay put …
Field Guide to Office Plants
Here’s to the internet! While researching for my “Field Guide to Office Plants” booklet on Sansevieria, I found a digital copy of Plants of the coast of Coromandel: selected from drawings and descriptions presented to the hon. court of directors of the East India Company by William Roxburgh. (1795) On page 184 is a beautiful drawing …