Fox in the Hen House

Fox in the Hen House

There is a fox in the museum. It is the only thing that moves in the whole space: is this why the fox’s presence is so striking? Because it alone is unpredictable within the camera frame? Because it might do something to the paintings? No one else is present....
Upsetting Expectations

Upsetting Expectations

“The fascination with monsters — that is, with human and animal oddities and hybrids — is as old as human civilization. Indeed, a history of the monstrous would constitute a veritable history of culture and civilization, for the monstrous marks the boundary...

Moon Geese

Moon Goose Colony – episode 4: HATCHING from Agnes Meyer-Brandis on Vimeo.   Yesterday I posted something in Art21’s “Centerfield” column about some of Katie Paterson’s work. One of the works discussed centers on a Morse code...
Deforming Forms with Gretchen E. Henderson

Deforming Forms with Gretchen E. Henderson

What follows is an interview with three voices. I only started asking questions at the end; the conversation — and introduction, for that matter —  began with Angelo Spoto at &Now Books.  The interview takes place with Gretchen E. Henderson, a writer (now...
Ballez in the Woods

Ballez in the Woods

“O Rosalind, these trees shall be my books. / And in their barks my thought I’ll character, / That every eye in which this forest looks / Shall see thy virtue witness’d everywhere. / Run, run, Orlando! Carve on every tree / The fair, the chaste, and...