Category: circulating

Yuko Otomo January 2018 [spacer height=”20px”] Landscape with Mill, Paul Cézanne, 1860, wikiart [spacer height=”20px”]  Cézanne: Mistral of Aix-en-Provence, Part One[spacer height=”10px”] Why is it that you do not say a word about Cézanne whom all of us recognize as one of the most astounding and curious temperaments of our time and who has a very… Continue reading Cézanne

[spacer height=”0.1px”] Olivier Ledure January 2018 [spacer height=”30px”] Image from cover of Afrodisia : Old and New Poems [spacer height=”10px”] Honestly, I don’t remember precisely why I decided to write this article. Several events could explain what led me to do this project. Let me present “me, myself and I” (one of Ted Joans’ favorite… Continue reading Ted Joans: Jazz Was His Religion

Jim Leftwich January 2018 [spacer height=”20px”]   The Baroness left Germany to work as a subject of Berlin in the marriage of dome and farm in which Kentucky changed to New York, barely liberating her shortly embarked French act. While the next extraordinary notorious engraved her scuttle on the streets, she decorated postage stamps for… Continue reading Je M’enfoutisme

Daniel Barbiero January 2018 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”20px”] In The Poetics of Space, Gaston Bachelard claimed that the house, with its intimate indoor spaces, provides shelter and occasion for daydreaming. And in many cases it does. But it may be outdoors, particularly the urban landscape, that’s conducive to the waking dream. It may be the… Continue reading …That Point at Which…

Ayoub Diouri December 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Xpanded ronin phasing at DMG A Concert Analysis On October 20th, I attended a live musical performance that was held in a record store (Downtown Music Gallery) on 13 Monroe Street in Chinatown. The performance was led by patrick brennan on the saxophone with three other instruments accompanying him,… Continue reading Xpanded ronin phasing

Steve Dalachinsky December 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”20px”] The Final VISION – the cathedrals of France for RODIN (Anselm Keifer exhibition @ the Rodin Museum) key for the eye’s glass emulsion [spacer height=”10px”]                          tho  in  /  stability           the… Continue reading The Final VISION

Daniel Barbiero December 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”20px”] What is it like to improvise—a piece of music, a dance, a literary work? It seems a simple question, but an attempt to answer it by, for example, reflecting on a performance after the fact or—and this is much more difficult—observing oneself performing during the performance—reveals a… Continue reading Practicing Improvisation

Gary May December 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] foundanagram poems for Cornelius Cardew Each line is an anagram of his name [spacer height=”20px”] crucial nerd woes cancels our weird scarecrow duel in insecure cold war [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Warn Ed, lies Occur caloric nurse wed worried uncle Sac drown a cleric, Sue. [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”]… Continue reading Corn Card

Jim Leftwich November 2017 [spacer height=”40px”] ____ is not oeuvre sponge aesthetic. ____ is not current tea bags aesthetic. ____ is not complete light bulb aesthetic. ____ is not summaries of shoe aesthetic. ____ is not brief uniform aesthetic. ____ is not hereby footprint aesthetic. ____ is not retrospective sheetrock aesthetic. ____ is not a… Continue reading Tehching Hsieh

Daniel Barbiero November 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Object and Shadow (The World and Its Double) In his story “Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” Borges tells of a gnostic in the fictional country of Uqbar who proclaimed mirrors to be abominable, because of their seeming duplication of those who look in them. This gnostic’s anathematizing of… Continue reading The World and Its Double

Randee Silv November 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] Yvonne Thomas, close-up, Warriors, 1952 [spacer height=”10px”] Something started stirring. I found myself in and out of familiar, reoccurring assertions and debates. Threads, traces of thoughts, especially the ones that seem to have drifted far from my vocabulary, resurfaced, triggering questions that are still finding form. Her gestures, unforced,  bypass… Continue reading Visual Barometers

Luca Arena November 2017 [spacer height=”30px”]   [spacer height=”20px”] Between the light going off and the beginning of the day, I have known places ships don’t set a course to, where there are no trains and no cars, where yellow traffic lights mean to slow down and not to accelerate.  The bus and the plane,… Continue reading Giving Voice to Colors

Kathleen Reichelt November 2017 [spacer height=”40px”] Pucker, 2001, digital chromogenic print Image courtesy Suzy Lake and Georgia Scherman Projects [spacer height=”20px”] It is a warm, wet spring day in March 2016, when I meet my friend Nicole in downtown Montreal.  She has flown in from Switzerland, and I’ve driven two hours east to see her.  We’ve… Continue reading Do You Know Suzy Lake?

Daniel Barbiero October 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”20px”] SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN (An Image of Finitude) The air terminal is a place that feels like a kind of limbo—a place where we’re neither here nor there. It’s a place situated in the present—in our present, as travelers—that we only grasp through the future; this future consists… Continue reading Notes on Airports

Jim Leftwich October 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] The ground beneath my feet is nothing but an enormous unfolded newspaper. (1) …asunder stoppage, how stomping makes stamping makes nothing and re-effects such as we have to what we need. Anew two-sided, we have allowed it to require our everyday talisman, against the long fails of everyday credit,… Continue reading Pure Psychic Chance Radio

Tania David & Randee Silv October 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Tania David/Seville, Spain Randee Silv/New York City

Ron Morosan October 2017 [spacer height=”40px”] Bill Barrell in his studio [spacer height=”20px”] Bill Barrell: Figurative Expressionist [spacer height=”20px”] With the exhibition Inventing Downtown at the Grey Art Gallery of NYU, new attention is being brought to artists working in the late fifties and early sixties and creating the downtown art scene that spawned Pop Art,… Continue reading Interview: Bill Barrell

Lyn Horton October 2017 [spacer height=”40px”]   [spacer height=”20px”] Nick Cave Takes More than Seven Steps to Heaven in Until [spacer height=”20px”] Nick Cave’s spectacular installation, Until, at MassMoCA in North Adams, MA, closed on Labor Day of 2017. That day was the last day to see it. Experience it, ingest it later to digest… Continue reading More Than Seven Steps

 Jerry Orter October 2017 [spacer height=”60px”] For Mathew Shipp [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”]  Wednesday Night Prayer Meeting, 1959, Charles Mingus Cassius Clay vs Sonny Liston, February 25, 1964 Convention Hall, Miami Beach, Florida  

Jim Leftwich September 2017 [spacer height=”30px”]   Decide Today w/Neural Necrosis, Tater Fraterabo, & PNA Hosted by Star City Shadow School and Art Rat Studios[spacer height=”30px”] Obviously diary entries, poems, improvisations and extrapolations, research notes, speculations, collages of quotes and other pilfered/ proliferated texts, self-skeptical meditative anxieties written around the looming inevitability of an actual event, notes… Continue reading Diaristic Report

Steve Dalachinsky September 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] the glass eye (carol rama at the new museum) “i didn’t have any painters as masters …the sense of sin is my master.” – carol rama 1981 i saw my portrait on your wall all my missing teeth & one glass eye buried I was beneath it’s weight the… Continue reading The Glass Eye

[spacer height=”0.1px”] Daniel Barbiero September 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] Walking Man II, photo courtesy of the author [spacer height=”20px”] With a retrospective of his work running this summer at the Tate Modern in London, Alberto Giacometti, a sculptor whose strangely elongated figures came to symbolize the mood of the postwar period, came back to mind. In… Continue reading Looking Again at Giacometti

Randee Silv September 2017   [spacer height=”30px”]   they took me to where he had lived — where he drank — street corners he had turned down — and to the train tracks he was following when he died — most had never heard of Neal Cassady —  those that had wanted no part of… Continue reading Local Stories: N.C. in S.M.A.

[spacer height=”0.1px”]Yuko Otomo September 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] Composition with Oval Color, 1914, Wikiart [spacer height=”20px”] Piet Mondrian: 1872 – 1944 Part Two: Room # 4, 5, 6 [spacer height=”10px”] Room 4 Cubism. Nothing is more powerful than the impact Mondrian felt as he saw works by Cezanne & the early Cubist works by Picasso &… Continue reading Perpetual Ripplets: Mondrain: Part II

Thomas Park September 2017 [spacer height=”40px”] A Series For Analog Tape photographs by Randee Silv, and music by Model 201 [spacer height=”20px”] It is interesting that we try to create and preserve media that is, technically, “perfect”, or lossless, and does not fade with time. Perhaps a more honest approach would be to record on lossy… Continue reading A Poetry Of Lossy Media

Tania David & Randee Silv July 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”20px”] Call & Response Tania David/San Miguel de Allende, Mexico Randee Silv/NYC all images © Tania David & Randee Silv

Jim Leftwich July 2017 [spacer height=”30px”] [spacer height=”20px”]   Duane Michals, Paradise Regained (1968) A photograph is a reflection of nothing. A typo of noting. A type of nothing, noted. A topographical map of nothing. He protests he doesn’t reason and does nothing but reason, crooked, as if that could improve matters. Five minutes spent… Continue reading Paradise Regained

Thomas Park July 2017 [spacer height=”40px”] A Visual Language of Machines, music by Grid Resistor, Photography Randee Silv   [spacer height=”30px”] Earlier in 2017 I brought up some ideas for a “New Industrial Music“. A main component of this music involved using field recordings made of urban locations as sources. Rather than guitars and drum… Continue reading A Machine Music Manifesto

Raymond Bally July 2017 [spacer height=”20px”] [spacer height=”20px”] A Profile on Nix, ​Negative C​apability, and Negative Capability [spacer height=”20px”] Near the end of the semester, Professor Londe asked his students to consider how they desired their Modern Poetry class to conclude, and then tasked them with using the final project as a way to create,… Continue reading Negative Capability

July 2017 [spacer height=”20px”][spacer height=”20px”] Time lasped video of Solar Patterns at the Centro Juvenil de Montemor-o-Novo [spacer height=”30px”] Interview with Portuguese artist, dAM[spacer height=”20px”] There’s such strong unity between the rhythm of shapes and colors in this mural, would you like to talk about this interaction?[spacer height=”20px”] My drawings are composed of different shapes and colors that… Continue reading Mural