by Jeriah | Oct 7, 2013 | Blog
Let’s talk about James Turrell. Yeah, its been a while, hasn’t it? He’s still out there, digging away at Roden Crater. Turrell also has a major retrospective up right now at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), and I recently had the opportunity to...
by Jeriah | Aug 4, 2013 | Blog
Reading a bit of art theory or criticism, it won’t take you long to find an author talking about viewing something through the lens of third-wave feminism or seeing something in a Modernist frame. The lens and the frame are referenced metaphorically so often in...
by Jeriah | Jul 1, 2013 | Blog
The challenges of earning a living as a working artist are well-known, and artists find various ways to support themselves. Some work in entirely unrelated fields, or in peripherally related fields, photographing weddings or painting faux finishes on wealthy...
by Jeriah | Jun 3, 2013 | Blog
Last month at the Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicagoans had a chance to see all five films of Matthew Barney’s Cremaster Cycle. Cremaster has a role in the art world similar to that of Art In The Age of Mechanical Reproduction: everybody knows about it, art students...
by Jeriah | May 6, 2013 | Blog
The art world loves community. Well, the art world loves the word, “community.â€Â Or, at least, it might, if we could figure out what the “art world†is, anyway, which is by no means a new problem. The issues may in fact be quite closely related. The art...