Summer has been slow, and it’s about to get slower…I’ll be out of contact for about a week and a half beginning today. In the meantime, a couple of interesting photography-related discussions have been surfacing around the web. Ed Burtynsky’s proposal to establish a permanent gallery in the 10,000-Year Clock in Nevada asks […]
I posted a very short recommendation for Bruce Yonemoto’s NSEW at Alexander Gray Associates back in February (here). The brand-new just-hit-newsstands-everywhere July/August issue of ART PAPERS carries my more extended reflection on Yonemoto’s work. To read it, you’ll have to buy it–so get a copy at your local bookstore and check it out. […]
Max Neuhaus is best known for his sound installations–a term he coined himself–that involve concealed speakers generating intermittent and overlapping tones in public places. What brings him within the purview of this visually-oriented blog is a show at the Menil Collection entitled “Circumscription Drawings,” after the name Neuhaus gives to the visual aspect of […]
291 recently wrote about “Click!” and “The Golden Calf.” I was glad to see that, despite the summer slowdown (mine included), both shows have led to interesting stories elsewhere.
Here, Leon Wieseltier rages against Hirst’s “Golden Calf” on the pages of The New Republic. The first section of his story is pretty […]
In an attempt to expand 291’s scope beyond reviews, interviews, and links dealing with contemporary visual culture, I’m instituting the blog’s first monthly feature: Nothing New. Nothing New will discuss photography and other visual artifacts that I feel have not been given the recognition they deserve. That may include underappreciated portions of the […]
Image via WebUrbanist.
For those who somehow missed it, the Iran missile photo debate. Also, (via Notes…) Errol Morris’s take.
In other foreign visual manipulation news: in Egypt, the news that the news may no longer control the news is top news. That includes visuals and audio.
Art to Go on surveillance. An artist I […]
AFC pointed me toward this great story: The Art Newspaper reports that Sotheby’s and Damien Hirst are planning an exhibition and auction of new work by Hirst this September, bypassing the traditional gallery system and heading straight to the auction block. As if that weren’t crazy enough, the centerpiece of the show (entitled “Beautiful […]
Since March, 291 has been dedicating posts to each individual stage of the “Click!” exhibition process. Now that the show is actually mounted and hung, I’d love to write an in-depth review of the results. At the moment, however, I’m talking with an editor about covering the show for a print venue, so […]
A man stands in a church, straddling the elaborate miniature landscape of a tiny Nativity scene. He is leaning on a mop with its bottom so lost among figurines that the handle looks like a wooden staff and the man like a tired traveler–the fourth Magus, maybe, or even, when compared to the tiny […]
Image © Luciano Romano/Change Performing Arts, via NYT.
Happy fourth of July! After a week of vacation, I’m back to active duty. In the meantime, a few interesting things happened that are worth noting.
The end of the panorama? Olympus has announced a prototype for a 360 degree camera.
Regina Hackett and Chas Bowie have […]
