Decorating Our Decline
When British sculptor Thomas J Price explains that his “strategy of inclusion” will counter the “endless stream of limiting tropes and identities for Black people,” he is inadvertently mimicking totalitarian injunctions.
When British sculptor Thomas J Price explains that his “strategy of inclusion” will counter the “endless stream of limiting tropes and identities for Black people,” he is inadvertently mimicking totalitarian injunctions.
Art and politics simply do not mix, and attempts to force them together reduce the efficacy of both.
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting a group sculpture show curated by Cassandra Coblentz. Here is a link to my review of the show in Critic’s Picks.
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Installation view with A Small Place Among Visible Things, 2010, polyethylene, jesmonite, paint, MDF, 23.5 x 31 x 25 cm Isabel Nolan’s Tokyo debut exhibition “clocks and seasons and promises” presents a selection of her recent watercolors, drawings and small-scale sculptures. The works show Nolan’s versatility with different media: shapes that appear in the watercolors […]
“Odani Motohiko: Phantom Limb” Installation view: Mori Art Museum 2010/11/27-2011/2/27 Dying Slave: Stella 2009–10 c.500×180×220 cm Steel, paraffin, wax Collection of the artist Photo: Kioku Keizo Photo Courtesy: Mori Art Museum “Odani Motohiko: Phantom Limb” Installation view: Mori Art Museum 2010/11/27-2011/2/27 Photo: Kioku Keizo Photo Courtesy: Mori Art Museum “Odani Motohiko: Phantom Limb” Installation view: […]
The preview crowd. The artist and the exhibition curator, Natsumi Araki, presenting the show.