Jan 6th, 2010

Anne Truitt @ hirshhorn — Washington DC

“Perception and Reflection” ended Jan 3

I’m irked and not all that surprised that I was not familiar with the work of Anne Truitt, an artist who created minimalist, colour field paintings in three-dimensional form at the same time as her more famous peers Kenneth Noland and Barnett Newman.  Such is the way of art history.     >>

Jan 5th, 2010

Phoebe Greenberg @ hirshhorn — Washington DC

“Next Floor” til April 4

Phoebe Greenberg and/or the hirshhorn, got my junk up in a knot in a couple of different ways with this “exhibit”.

I’m not  disgruntled because Next Floor won best Short Film at Cannes in 2008 (amoung numerous other awards).  It is a well done, profound and compelling short film.  But my first beef is that it is a film and film has its own numerous venues for display.

And it’s not the film’s content either.  Portraying a bunch of privileged people gorging on all imaginable animals while the floor continuously falls out beneath them is an apt critique of our western ways, if not a very obvious one.   >>