It is perhaps fitting that I first came across Thomas Demand’s work on Instagram. After all, just like Instagram, his photographs deal with the “trivial splendor” of everyday images — images, some of which come “from… Read More
Michael Snow makes things to look through, look around, look along, look at, up, down and behind, to look at yourself looking at things. By making vision the subject of the object, the… Read More
“A steady diet of masterpieces makes you fat and gives you gout,” art critic Peter Schjeldahl once said. Anyone seriously interested in art, Schjeldhal argues, must enjoy a healthy balance of both masterpieces and that much larger… Read More
Because ’tis the season for gift guides. Because museum gift shops are more fun than a sack full of toys. Because there are more interesting ways to deck the halls than pinterest can… Read More
We map out our lived spaces through our desires and the stories we create. We develop a poetic geography in which places are fragmentary and inward-turning histories. – Marcel de Certeau* Domestic Symphonies… Read More
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I like this quote from William Deresiewicz: Our culture hero is not the artist or reformer [...] but the entrepreneur. Deresiewicz’ comment is all the more poignant when one encounters creative and artistic entrepreneurs — like the Eastern… Read More
The Gallery as pilgrimage site: A display for the edification, elevation of the public. We interrogate the works’ aura, history, morals. Hope to be changed, healed, and to learn by it. The gallery as a… Read More
On June 9th, the third floor gallery of the Royal Ontario Museum became the museum’s sanctuary — silent and dark, Jorinde Voigt’s “Beethoven: 1-32″ illuminated the room like a sacred shrine. Voigt’s visual exploration of Beethoven’s 32 Sonatas accompanied Stewart Goodyear’s performance… Read More
We, however, have far more great works available to refresh our memories than those which even the greatest of museums could bring together. For a “Museum Without walls” is coming into being, and… Read More
