Image © Ugo Mulas via WMMNA and GAM di Torino.
I’ve finally done the impossible–read every one of the backlogged posts that have been building up in my Google Reader for the past, oh, month or so. These links are my favorites from the past month. For anyone who’s been keeping up, it might […]
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 […]
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 […]
I’ll be traveling for the next week. I might have enough access for sporadic updates, but until then, enjoy the blogroll and the following links.
More great coverage of PhotoEspaña–this time on landscape photographers–from WMMNA. I found at least two projects I didn’t know about–by Joachim Koester and Simon Starling–that look worth more time […]
Image from “On the Beauty of Absence.”
Theorists have made a fuss for a while now about how the body is “inscribed” or made “legible” by society. Here’s the process in real-time: a new tool allows police to identify suspects based on tattoos, scars, and other visible bodily markers.
Square America is probably the most thoughtfully […]
Image © Harri Pälviranta.
The fastest flash ever created.
Regina Hackett looks at pigeons looking.
X-ray tour of a Greco-Egyptian mummy. (via C-Monster)
A show I wish I could see: “This Side of Paradise” at the Huntington Library in LA.
We Make Money Not Art’s top selections from PhotoEspaña, including Harri Pälviranta’s great documentary work on Finnish barfighting–which is […]
Still from the New York Times.
Tony Schwarz, creator of the masterful “Daisy Ad” that helped LBJ defeat Barry Goldwater and also changed the course of American political campaigning, died Saturday, the NYT reports.
The world of online photography criticism recently got a whole lot richer with the addition of a new online magazine, 1000 Words, and […]
Image © Amy Arbus.
Page 291 celebrates its first birthday today. Thanks to everyone for reading! I’ve been a little bit M.I.A. recently, falling back on links instead of reviews, commentary, etc. That should change next week, although summer is obviously a lighter season and I’ll be moving slightly outside the city in […]
