Barbara Grad, at the Danforth Museum Some folks carry a high attraction factor, that something that makes them irresistible and noteworthy. In Boston’s art scene—particularly among women artists—Barbara O’Brien has her own version of the Star Wars’ tractor beam. Those grappling rays of magnetism were in full force today at the Danforth Museum in Framingham. […]
Month: October 2010
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Lifelong Construction
] Random dust patterned on a surface in my studio _______ I believe that the justification of art is the internal combustion it ignites in the hearts of men and not its shallow, externalized, public manifestations. The purpose of art is not the release of a momentary ejection of adrenalin but is, rather, the gradual, […]
Judy Pfaff at Braunstein Quay
Lemongrass, by Judy Pfaff (Braunstein Quay Gallery) At a pre-opening soirée for Judy Pfaff’s show at the Braunstein Quay Gallery in San Francisco last week, Pfaff talked about how different—and personally satisfying—it has been to be working in her studio again. So much of her focus recently has been installation-centric: massive venues and complex sculptural […]
Road Work
California is, for me, a complex brew. I grew up in the Bay Area so visits to that childhood domain are laden with the peculiar confluence of emotions that most of us carry, consciously and unconsciously, from our early life and family of origin. But California is also a harbinger of the future tense, offering […]
Alive and Ticking
“Had I Not Been Awake” Had I not been awake I would have missed it, A wind that rise and whirled until the roof Pattered with quick leaves off the sycamore And got me up, the whole of me a-patter, Alive and ticking like an electric fence: Had I not been awake I would have […]
Incomplete is Not a Dirty Word
Assembling reality is mostly patchwork (from Anna Hepler’s exhibit at the Portland Museum of Art) More on the theme of being right and the cost of that fixation (referenced earlier in this post): An article appeared in the Sunday New York Times Book review last week that speaks to our proclivity to put blinders on […]
Genius Jason
A quick shout out for Jason Moran who was awarded a genius grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Jason is a friend and an extraordinary musician. This is so well deserved! Previous posts on Slow Muse about Jason: Light Seekers Jason Moran and The Bandwagon: Milestone Jason Moran in Cambridge Jason Moran
Mistaken Identity
Pastorelle 15 The Chinese in the drought of 1876-1879 reportedly confused rustling of dry leaves for rain when the ear’s not yet adulterated/unadulterated in the morning late at night or very early in the morning it sounds like rain. –John Taggart More about John Taggart (from PBS News Hour): Taggart has received a number of […]