As Harold Bloom pointed out, Ralph Waldo Emerson claimed the authentic religion of the American was self-reliance.
Where is it in artists nowadays?
Martin Puryear: The Heights
Excerpts:
The Martin Puryear retrospective at MoMA (11 West 53rd St., to Jan. 14, 2008) presents a panoply of engaging sculptures. The large-scale pieces in the second-floor atrium conquer that unfriendly, gigantic-broom-closet space.
Miraculously, the suspended 36-foot Ladder for Booker T. Washington (1996) and the slender 63-foot stalk of the wheeled Ad Astra (2007) conquer the architectural mistake.
Alan Shields Returns; Glitter Can Be Gold
Excerpts: Alan Shields (1944-2005) is one of those artists who disappeared.
My theory is that the search for viable products during a hot art market is not only fueling the cradle-robbing of M.F.A. candidates, but also causing some exhumations.
We shouldn't leave art resurrections to the needs of the quixotic art market, now controlled by collector-dealers and their ilk. Couldn't at least one major New York museum include exhibitions of underappreciated artists who deserve a second look?
Read on at John Perreault's Artopia here.
A video at the opening with commentary by that NYC Guy on the Bike, artist and critic James Kalm, whose essays have been touted at Sharkforum before. As this short video is described on his youtube site, " Kalm makes his way to Chelsea to view the latest exhibition of David Reed. With a reputation in the New York Painting community that stretches back to the late sixties, David Reed continues to befuddle the public with his mysterious technical prowess and provocative conceptual approach to the medium of paint. Featuring a cameo appearance by David Humphrey." Click and enjoy. You can check out more of his videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/jameskalm .
Jason Bredle is the author of Pain Fantasy (Red Morning Press 2007); Standing in Line for the Beast, winner of the 2006 New Issues Poetry Prize; A Twelve Step Guide, winner of the 2004 New Michigan Press chapbook contest; and A Pocket-Sized Map of My Heart, a self-published collaboration with Leigh Stein. He lives in Chicago and works at a translation agency in Evanston, Illinois.
Assist Your Boyfriend with His Suffering
Today Amy will make her final announcement
and be put to sleep. In this city, I walk
Born in Burma and brought up in Baltimore, Catherine Wagner has an MFA from the University of Iowa Writers Workshop and a PhD in English from the University of Utah. Her books are Miss America (Fence 2001) and Macular Hole (Fence 2004). She has just finished co-editing, with Rebecca Wolff, Not for Mothers Only: Contemporary Poets on Child-Bearing and Child-Rearing (Fence 2007). Her chapbook, Everyone in the Room is a Representative of the World at Large, is recently out from Bonfire Press. She currently teaches at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
Everyone in the Room Is a Representative of the World at Large
I lived inside a box that was a poem.
Joshua Corey is the author of two full-length volumes of poetry, Selah (Barrow Street Press, 2003) and Fourier Series (Spineless Books, 2005), along with two chapbooks, Compostition Marble (Pavement Saw Press, 2006) and the forthcoming Hope & Anchor (Noemi Press). He lives in Evanston, Illinois, where he and his wife Emily Grayson are expecting their first child; keeps a blog, Cahiers de Corey; and is an assistant professor of English at Lake Forest College.
Your Anatomy For Shame, It Is Form
We were songs. We were throats made from song.
We were skulls wearing caps of aluminum foil.
We were a flapped cadaver and the doctor's waistcoat.
Kate Greenstreet is the author of case sensitive (Ahsahta Press, 2006), and three chapbooks, Learning the Language (Etherdome Press, 2005), Rushes (above/ground press , 2007), and This is why I hurt you (forthcoming from Lame House Press ). Her second book, The Last 4 Things, will be out from Ahsahta in 2009. Her blog is kicking wind.
Fragment. No suggestions.
Did she say who sought refuge
in unhappy love
Saturday, December 1, 10 am - 4 pm
8th Floor Meeting Rooms 8S14-15,
Harold Washington Library Center,
Chicago Public Library,
400 South State Street
Josh Smith: does it look good, have any kind of real visual presence? Can he even paint? Is there any noticable rigor? As actual paintings devoid of art market hype are these things worth a shit? Of course not! But these trifles hardly matter, what matters, is SAATCHI BOUGHT ONE!
I’d like to introduce a new term for a recent trend in Consensus Correct painting: Feeble Painting.
Actually, I already have been using it for a short while in my Art History classes when describing one current tendency. While discussing this with the Shark, he volunteered to help me delineate it and present it to a wider audience. We debated the idea in depth and here is the elucidation.
