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The Tour of Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque 24 Aug 2013 | 02:44 am
"Here all along the banners hung; And here the welcome minstrels sung: The walls with glittering arms bedight Displayed an animated sight: Beneath that arch-way, once a gate, With helmed crest, in war...
Ways of Seeing (by John Berger) 4 Jul 2013 | 02:39 am
"The more monotonous the present, the more the imagination must seize upon the future. The passivity of the present is then replaced by the activity of an imaginary future -- pictures conjured up by p...
The Midwest landscape: Joachim Brohm's Ohio photographs 15 Apr 2013 | 07:27 pm
Slowly over the past two years I've been working on a project examining (through words and images) the complexities of the American Midwest, from the perspective of how landscape and geography affect ...
A conversation with Jason Lazarus about his project Phase 1 (Intersections of Art and Politics, pt. 2) 22 Mar 2013 | 11:25 pm
Continuing with the series of occasional writings I recently began (go here for pt. 1) about the myriad intersections between art and politics, with this week marking the one-year anniversary of the i...
Liu Bolin collaboration with JR 17 Feb 2013 | 09:41 pm
I know the postings have been slightly inconsistent here lately, I've been on the road alot working on personal projects -- you can see some of this stuff unfold in-progress at my other online project...
Requests from Solitary / Tamms Year Ten, at Sullivan Galleries 17 Feb 2013 | 09:41 pm
The expanded use of solitary confinement in domestic prisons in the U.S. has not come without its fair share of scandal and controversy, for example drawing condemnation from the ACLU as human rights ...
Self-Guided Tour into the future and beyond 17 Feb 2013 | 09:40 pm
Chenoa, Illinois. November 2012 Much of this past summer and autumn have been spent on developing and refining some personal projects and other endeavors, so Self-Guided Tour has not received as much ...
Art Openings 2/9: Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Western Exhibitions, 3433 Gallery (and final notice for exhibitions ending soon) 8 Feb 2013 | 11:48 pm
Andrew Rafacz Gallery begins their 2013 schedule with the exhibition Cern, new works by Jeremy Bolen, opening tomorrow nite. A certain thread that runs thru Bolen's art is the focus on human perceptio...
Art Openings 2/9: Andrew Rafacz Gallery, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Western Exhibitions, 3433 Gallery (and final notice for exhibitions ending soon) 8 Feb 2013 | 11:48 pm
Andrew Rafacz Gallery begins their 2013 schedule with the exhibition Cern, new works by Jeremy Bolen, opening tomorrow nite. A certain thread that runs thru Bolen's art is the focus on human perceptio...
A conversation with Kevin Miyazaki about his project Perimeter, opening this weekend at the Haggerty Museum of Art 17 Jan 2013 | 01:56 am
In July 2011, a team of astronomers discovered the largest and oldest mass of water ever detected in the universe: a massive cloud located around a black hole 12 billion light-years away and containin...
