Upcoming Exhibitions and Events
I’m extremely fortunate to be involved in a few upcoming exhibitions and events with a slew of artists, curators, themes, concepts, everythang, of which I am very much a fan. Upside: Lots to tell! Downside: No time to tell it!…
Passenger Films event & more
I’m very pleased to announce that I’ll be participating in the next installment of London’s Passengerfilms series, held 13 May at the Roxy Bar & Screen; an event on “Sounding Place, Placing Sound.”
Pittsburgh City Paper review of City/City
Charles Rosenblum has some interesting things to say in this week’s Pittsburgh City Paper about The City & the City at Wood Street Galleries. The show’s only up for about two more weeks, so be sure to go have a…
CMU Tartan on City/City
The Tartan has published a thoughtful piece on The City & the City in this week’s paper. It’s exciting to see new young art lovers moving into insightful conversation through criticism – I’ll look forward to following the Tartan’s art…
Post-Gazette on The City & the City
Diana Nelson-Jones at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette did a great article in today’s paper on my upcoming show The City & the City: Artwork by London Writers. Take a look at the piece online!
The City & the City: Sept 28-Dec 31, 2012, Wood St. Galleries
Artwork by Caroline Bergvall, Rod Dickinson & Tom McCarthy, Rachel Lichtenstein, Chris Petit & Emma Matthews & Iain Sinclair, and Sukhdev Sandhu. The City & the City: Opening party…
This Is the Modern World: Decorative art at the World’s Fair
This-here article I wrote for Carnegie magazine discusses Carnegie Museum of Art’s upcoming show of decorative-art and design innovations that debuted at the World’s Fairs between the mid-19th and mid-20th centuries. This will be not only a massive endeavor but…
Transmission
Last week I had the great pleasure of visiting the hamlet of North Adams, Mass. – the Bilbao of the Berkshires; a very small town dominated by Mass MoCA and the nearby Clark Art Institute, making it an unlikely beating…
The Country Arrived to the City
With their backs turned to the lens or faces shrouded by books, shades, maps, the women in Lisa Toboz’s series Wakefield and Ward are tricks of the light. We are fooled by these photos: fooled into imagining a journey as…
Sight Line
Images from the opening party for the Ley Line exhibit at Assemble. All images by Anna Lee Fields.
Guilty Landscapes
Garden By night we stole: Tomatoes, roses, thyme, Pulled from roots We could neither borrow nor earn. The Ley Line’s guilty coordinates act as a rope handrail, an unsteady guideline meant for one tracing finger rather than the unsure grip…
Hold the Landscape Culpable
The sidewalks of South Oakland have seen generations of guilt trespass their ardors. These mishmash houses, built by drunken Hawksmoors, have taken advantage of newcomers laying down mishmash roots defined in Hungarian, Italian, and Spanish, and have stolen from those…
Warhol: Factory Direct
My feature on The Andy Warhol Museum’s upcoming show Factory Direct is in the new issue of Carnegie magazine. This is going to be a great show, with some amazing artists such as Ann Hamilton, Mark Neville (who spent two…
Ley Line opens June 1
Artists explore new Pittsburgh mythologies in Ley Line June 1-June 30 at Assemble, 5125 Penn Ave. in Garfield. Pittsburgh, PA … A team of Pittsburgh artists creates a new way of seeing our city in Ley Line, on show at…
The Louse
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine’s radio series “The Gilded Vectors of Disease” is drawing to a close with next week’s final episode. But if you’ve missed these excellent programs – a combination of interviews with authoritative scientists…