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Foley Gallery’s High Summer Steps Out of the Shade
[caption id="attachment_10539" align="alignnone" width="300"] High Summer at Foley Gallery[/caption] ‘It is perfectly natural for the Sun to shine initially on the upper lefthand corner of the first page of this book’ Francis Ponge, The Sun Placed in the Abyss Francis Ponge was referred to as ‘the poet of things’ for his ability to elevate the
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Interview with Elisabeth Biondi
When I visited Elisabeth Biondi at her TriBeCa apartment, where she lives with her five-year old dog Boris, she had just returned from teaching at The Photography Master Retreat, a week-long immersive course bringing together a group of international photographers in a small village in southern France to discuss their works. “We eat, drink but
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Nan Goldin’s “Ballad” Resonates at MoMA
*All images are from The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Nan Goldin, 1979-2004, Multimedia installation with 690 slides and a programmed soundtrack at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. On view between now and February 12, 2017 at the Museum of Modern Art is The Ballad of Sexual Dependency, Nan Goldin’s landmark ode to Downtown New York
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A New Country, A New Shore: Jesse Chun’s On Paper at Spencer Brownstone Gallery
[caption id="attachment_10458" align="alignnone" width="246"] Jesse Chun, Blueprints #1, 2015[/caption] Effortlessly dispersed on an otherwise blank sheet, words ‘mother’, ‘father’, ‘all sons and daughters’ and ‘regardless of age or place’ utter in the viewers’ mouths, debuting a startling poem brimming with countless untold tales of new territories and fresh beginnings. [caption id="attachment_10459" align="alignnone" width="300"] Installation view
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Interview with Erica Baum
[caption id="attachment_9956" align="alignnone" width="300"] Erica Baum, Investigation, 2014[/caption] Erica Baum is one of the most intriguing photography artists working today. Baum’s scrutinizing of optic limitations images and words perpetuate bears riveting results, in which their commonly attributed potentials shatter to unravel new territories for ‘looking’. Experiencing her Naked Eye, Dog Ear or Card Catalogue series,
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Bas Jan Ader at Metro Pictures
Solemn, contemplative and evasive; the arresting art of Bas Jan Ader—the Dutch-born and Los Angeles-based artist who sailed to an eternal journey at the age of thirty-three from Massachusetts in attempt to orchestrate what would be his grandest work of art—is not an easy one to immerse in. [caption id="attachment_9917" align="alignnone" width="300"] Bas Jan Ader,
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Sarah Palmer
you are unsheltered, cut with the weight of wind
Above image: Dillon DeWaters, from the series Ocean/Ocean, 2010 you are unsheltered, cut with the weight of wind— you shudder when it strikes, then lift, swelled with the blast— you sink as the tide sinks, you shrill under hail, and sound thunder when thunder sounds - H.D. "The Shrine" from Sea Garden The sea,
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Sarah Palmer
Slippage: On Practice and Waiting
In the recent weeks of endless springtime rain, I turned inward. I have been thinking about the process of how work gets made, and about the practice of making itself (these are two different things, though with many shared veins and intersections - conjoined twins that cannot be separated without killing one). With an active
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Sarah Palmer
A home for fleas, a hive for bees, a nest for birds
Thank you to Baxter St. for inviting me to come in as guest blogger for the next three months. I look forward to sharing some thoughts, musings, and artworks. I was always a writer. That is, before I would ever have called myself an artist, I thought of myself as a writer. Writing came naturally