291 spent the last four days on vacation in Lafayette, Louisiana, the biggest city in Cajun Country. Hopefully that goes some way towards explaining the lack of recent updates.
Louisiana isn’t the best place to do serious thinking about visual culture, but it still afforded me with some interesting opportunities. Saturday night I attended […]
Kent Rogowski’s photographic work marks the third show this year at Foley Gallery that appears to encourage a distinctly consumerist view of pictures.
That’s not a bad thing. The purpose of galleries, lest we all forget, is to persuade enthusiasts to purchase art–even art that sells itself as a critique of capitalism. Rugowski’s show […]
The seventh of every month used to be just another day for me–then I discovered Beth Lilly.
Lilly is a photographer based in Atlanta. Once a month, she transforms herself into The Oracle @ WiFi, receiving phone calls from strangers looking for advice and answers. When she gets a call, Lilly stops wherever she […]
After my last post about The Splasher phenomenon, Michael Kimmelman, lead art critic for the Times, wrote this opinion piece about how to interpret The Splasher.
Kimmelman deserves credit for underlining the hazy nature of the targets of The Splasher’s acts of “vandalism”:
The current agitators, although they’ve got some of the revolutionary patter down, seem […]
