Friday, February 26, 2010

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

What has been lost is faith in the mysterious, non-linguistic channels through which art accomplishes its unique task, including its resistance to colonization by language. It is art’s ontology to function visually and to evoke the tactile, to engage both the mind and body of the viewer. Instead, many of our institutional guardians have sought a prescriptive approach to ensure that visual art works “properly.” These gatekeepers want to dwell in the more easily manageable world of ideas, rather than in the messiness of reality and the tangled threads of aesthetic impulses.

--ARTSEEN Editors of the Brooklyn Rail

Friday, February 19, 2010

Saturday, February 13, 2010

A page from my essay:

(Thanks to my dear colleague Garth for his Indesign skills.)

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Monday, February 08, 2010

Saturday, February 06, 2010



Art is a verb, not a noun.

--Didi Dunphy

An idea for an art project: track the institutional trajectory--Mark Lombardi-style--of my department's Program Review document.

Wednesday, February 03, 2010

Under the most oppressive regimes, a man, a woman, can keep and experience their freedom: freedom is a state of mind. It is born (and often dies) in the mind.

--Etel Adnan