by Meg Onli | Oct 13, 2009 | Blog
This week’s pick is a long one. Susan Rankaitis, James Welling, and George Baker take the gloves off and throw down over abstraction in photography. via the UCLA: “From the beginning, abstraction has been intrinsic to photography, and its persistent...
by Meg Onli | Oct 6, 2009 | Blog
This past weekend the Dance Center of Columbia College Chicago hosted a three night performance with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. For this week’s pick we check out Cunningham’s collaboration with John Cage, Stan VanDerBeek, and Nam June Paik...
by Meg Onli | Sep 22, 2009 | Blog
This week’s pick is inspired by C-Monster’s End of summer at PS1 in NYC post. I must confess, I love musicals and when I saw a photo of of the Jesus Christ Superstar album I knew it had to make it’s way onto the picks. I don’t think anyone can...
by Meg Onli | Sep 8, 2009 | Blog
For this week’s video pick I am sidestepping the usual videos I post for two short documentaries. The first is Sean Dunne’s highly acclaimed short The Archive. This beautifully shot film checks out the overwhelming record collection of Paul Mawhinney as he...
by Meg Onli | Sep 1, 2009 | Blog
In this week’s pick we check out Kara Walker discussing her piece Fibbergibbet and Mumbo Jumbo: Kara E. Walker in Two Acts created at Fabric Workshop in 2004. The installation consists of one of Walker’s first videos. In this video she discusses the move...
