-
Recently Perused
- Nibble on the Yellow Wallpaper at RedLine
- Mass MoCA's once-painted walls vs. Sol Lewitt's wall paintings
- Secret Tunnels Under Denver & Boulder
- Robert Wyatt (thanks.)
- Krazy Kat Desert Justice: Is Humor Art, and Art, Humor?
- MCA Denver as Edifice.
- News from Babel, Chris Cutler, and the Legacy of the Cow.
-
Recent Posts
- Back to America
- On my own for a couple of hours. Cloudy afternoon.
- No time for ideas.
- Light Plays On Everything
- The Rock Feels Watched
- Querulous
- plant, chair, and WordPress for iPhone
- Cafe faces, cranky I
- Back at the cafe
- Into Blinding Light
- Denver, from the Auraria Campus Parking Lots
- New Header Image. Something a bit simpler.
- The Pelican, the Alembic, and the Concealing Wall
- The Helmet is a Veil
- Live Iron Sculpture Casting at Auraria Campus March 10th (my poster)
- For all the art talk and theory, an artist, regardless of their specific beliefs and cosmology, knows that when it goes well, the moment of making is a moment of grace, some kind of gift, a treasure and a privilege. This experience is as old as art is, although a lot of contemporary art talk belittles it. We, as artists, the kind that I mean, are not just content providers for... a luxury market, a network of institutions, a sophisticated discourse, and a social scene. We are, at our best, much more than that. What, then? I don't know, still. I just have a thread that I need to follow.
Time Casts Shadows
Edges soften or harden depending on the light source. Months merge to quick glimpses in the shadow of memory.Flashes are given sequence, and from the mind's turbulent puddle, we conjure up a stream.
_________________/
\Welcome to Waldemar Pure &\\
\\Applied Research.
Please stay with your assigned group.E.W.
_________________
____Far from Home
An itinerant mechanic wanders an unfamiliar planet.
Category Archives: Reviews
Odin & Yggdrasil: Previews of “Odin-Odeon” at RMCAD
A few new items as the exhibition at RMCAD approaches (reception on September 10th). If you’re not already aware of the blessed event, you’ll find all the info you need on this page, as well as several images. On your … Continue reading
News from Babel, Chris Cutler, and the Legacy of the Cow.
The other evening in the wee hours, I heard News From Babel’s “Letters Home“ (1985) for the first time in a few years. This is music that continually surprises, with melody that takes sudden turns and twists, alternately giddy, melancholy, … Continue reading
Posted in Music, Reviews, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Art Bears, Chris Cutler, Dagmar Krause, File Under Popular, Fred Frith, Henry Cow, Lindsay Cooper, News from Babel, RIO, Robert Wyatt, Rock in Opposition, Slapp Happy
2 Comments
Gao Xingjian’s “Return to Painting”
This is a favorite of mine, a gift from my sister a few years ago. Gao draws astounding forms from black ink and paper, pulling image from abstraction and bleeding ink in a way that reminds me of Joseph Beuys’ … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Ink, Reviews, Uncategorized, Writing
Tagged Amazon, Artist, Books, Brushwork, Chagall, Chi Hsu, Chinese, Contemporary, Fuentecilla, Gao, Gao Xingjian, ink, Joseph Beuys, Nobel Prize, Return to Painting, Reviews, Soul Mountain
2 Comments
