by Guest | Mar 2, 2022 | Blog
Randall Szott For many years, when it came to the art world, I felt a lot like the “man who wasn’t there” as in the opening of this William Hughes Mearns poem: Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there He wasn’t there again today I wish, I...
by Guest | Sep 29, 2020 | Blog
“What does it mean?” This question predictably looped throughout my 20 years as an educator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA). It’s a good enough question and it defies a simple answer. Like the numerous images in a hall of mirrors, a single work of art...
by Guest | Aug 9, 2018 | Blog
By: Lea Devon Sorrentino Even before seeing the work I wanted to write about Best of the Worst, the recent exhibition at the Practice Gallery in Philadelphia. The title is amusing and the concept clever– a gallery full of artists who’d previously been rejected...
by Guest | Oct 16, 2017 | Blog
by Kelsey Brod The Kingdom of Kitai at Ulterior Gallery in New York’s Lower East Side opens the tiny gallery like a tunnel to narrative artist Gaku Tsutaja’s world. Though the kingdom is fictional, Tsutaja uses her father’s experience as a civil engineer in Tokyo, and...
by Guest | Jul 28, 2017 | Blog
By Randall Szott, I hate baseball. To be a fan of it requires patience, an appreciation for subtlety, and an abundance of attention that I simply can’t muster. Not valuing baseball is just one of many of my character flaws that Ted Purves characteristically saw past...
