Robert Ashley at the Whitney Biennial

Robert Ashley at the Whitney Biennial

Guest post by Erin Leland Staged inside the 2014 Whitney Biennial, three operas, originally written and scored by American composer Robert Ashley, and currently directed by Alex Waterman, took place: Vidas Perfectas, The Trial of Anne Opie Wehrer, and Crash. A floor...
Book Review: Whitney Biennial 2014

Book Review: Whitney Biennial 2014

As thick as the phone book of the town I grew up in, the catalogue for the 2014 Whitney Biennial is a whopper, coming in at 419 pages. But seeing as how this year’s Biennial was an impressive three floors, the attendant corridors, stairwells, random outside spaces,...

John Neff behind the camera; Steve Reinke in front of it

Guest video post made for Bad at Sports by John Neff Steve Reinke is an artist and writer best known for his work in video. His work is in many collections including the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Centre Pompidou (Paris) and the National Gallery (Ottawa),...
Opacity, Translucence, Clarity

Opacity, Translucence, Clarity

Most of the time we want meaning to be immediately clear to us. Things should not be ambivalent. The glass should be see-through. The two-way mirror makes us uneasy; those on the other side can see us, but we can’t see them – when we look into the glass, we are...