by Claudine Isé | Jul 27, 2009 | Blog
Over the last few days two news stories have assessed the recession’s mostly grim impact on art galleries in various cities across the country. The L.A. Times’ Suzanne Muchnic delivered the more positive of the two by focusing on the surprising...
by Claudine Isé | Jul 27, 2009 | Blog
A few weeks ago, Decider sent three real clowns to watch Bruce Nauman’s installation Clown Torture at the Art Institute. The clowns, they were bemused. One reacted thusly: “It’s all self-inflicted,” Williams says of the tortured clowns....
by Claudine Isé | Jul 22, 2009 | Blog
“Pilgrimage is one of the fundamental structures a journey can take–the quest in search of something, if only one’s own transformation, the journey toward a goal–and for pilgrims, walking is work,” writes Rebecca Solnit in the book...
by Claudine Isé | Jul 22, 2009 | Blog
What general forms of knowledge are most important for people to have today? What fields of study have become irrelevant? Are there emerging areas of human inquiry that warrant greater (or even just some) inclusion in today’s institutions of higher education?...
by Claudine Isé | Jul 20, 2009 | Blog
You know, like Julian Schnabel-bashing was back in the day, before he started directing? I’m thinking yes. The unkindness of it all aside (and that makes for a very big aside, I know), Peyton does inspire some of the most deliciously evil descriptive sentences...