Kent Shaw's Blog, page 18
September 18, 2013
How to Fall in Love For Real | Brevity: A Journal of Concise Literary Nonfiction
My essay about what life is like when you’re trying very hard to figure things out.
September 15, 2013
The Source: Jacques Herzog
I’m especially interested in...
The Source: Jacques Herzog
I’m especially interested in the conversation about an art that creates friction between itself and the viewer. And this friction becomes a “third energy.”
September 10, 2013
One Floor Up More Highly installation at MASS MOCA. Dirty. And...
One Floor Up More Highly installation at MASS MOCA. Dirty. And crumbly. And landscapey. And colors!
I know there will never be enough Matthew Day Jackson to satisfy...
I know there will never be enough Matthew Day Jackson to satisfy me. This one is called “Reclining Nude.” It fits nicely with another painting in the installation called “Enshrouded Paris,” that features the Seine specially yellow/orangish against an all blue Paris landscape.
September 9, 2013
Ashley Bickerton. BEE-YOOUUUU-TIFUL!!
Ashley Bickerton. BEE-YOOUUUU-TIFUL!!
September 7, 2013
Very articulate little sections of being alive. Matthew Day...
Very articulate little sections of being alive. Matthew Day Jackson exhibit at Hauser & Wirth gives me a big batch of heavies inside.
September 5, 2013
archiveofaffinities:
Louis-Ernest Lheureux, Monument to the...
Louis-Ernest Lheureux, Monument to the Glory of the French Revolution, 1886
They had another view of this on view at the Musee D’Orsay this summer! The best is it would but up against the little Arch that’s by the circle.
Oh, France, and their complicated relationship with Napoleon.
September 4, 2013
September 3, 2013
Sometimes seeing how an art piece is made upsets the spell. In...
Sometimes seeing how an art piece is made upsets the spell. In this case, I would say seeing the process makes it even better believing in the art piece.
August 30, 2013
Attack of the Giant Art Galleries
What a tantalizer this article is. And what a strange and odd dilemma it poses for anyone who thinks about the annoying intensification of 1% privilege. Their extravagance gets met with an artistic ambition. What could possibly be the resolution there?
