Franz Marc and his dog: “To Never Know You”
My article related to Franz Marc and his dog, "To Never Know You: Archival Photos of Russi and Franz Marc" has been published in the Fall 2017 issue of Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture. Here is the abstract for the story about Franz Marc and his dog,...
documenta diaries iii: neue neue galerie
The German friend I went with said aloud what I was thinking: “Whoever at Documenta decided to call this the 'Neue Neue Galerie'…just…shouldn't...ever...” accompanied by a grim sächsische head-shake. Restyling the already-interesting and well-known Brutalist Neue Post...
Franz Marc Photo Discovery
Much as I enjoy burying the lede, the headline on this story is that I found a heretofore unpublished photo, and this is the Franz Marc photo, taken in the spring of 1914 by the artist's brother, Paul Marc, in Munich: The whole story of finding the Franz Marc photo...
Alfred Flechtheim: Kunsthändler der Moderne
Update: My article about this exhibition, Alfred Flechtheim: Kunsthändler der Moderne, has been placed in the Routledge / Taylor & Francis publication Journal of Visual Art Practice. Unfortunately there are no photos with the story but there are many on the...
documenta diaries ii: topical solution
One of the paradoxes that has emerged from documenta 14 is that many of its spectacular installations make very simple statements about global consumerism using enormous material expenditures. In fact it can be difficult to see past the pyramids, windmills, and tents...
documenta diaries I: press opening
For the first installment of documenta diaries…here is George Baker’s "The Globalization of the False: A Response to Okwui Enwezor" (2004). Much of the work seen thus far at the German quinquennial, having liberated itself from theory and history, is therefore very...
‘Animaloculomat’ • Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin
Already by 1909 Jakob Johann von Uexküll had, in Umwelt und Innenwelt der Tiere, given a great deal of consideration to the „Innenleben“ of animals. For Franz Marc this led to the question of how a horse, an eagle, a deer, or a dog saw and experienced the world,...
Franz Marc painting still missing at Haus am Waldsee
"Vermisst: Der Turm der blauen Pferde von Franz Marc" at Haus am Waldsee, Berlin I really wanted to like Haus am Waldsee’s thematic “Vermisst: Der Turm der blauen Pferde von Franz Marc,” but was also nervous about all the expectations of the referenced Franz Marc...
Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim
This post goes with a book review of the exhibition catalogue Visionaries: Creating a Modern Guggenheim (2017) for Museum Bookstore which is posted here and also follows in a slightly different form below. It has been one of life's great pleasures to see Franz Marc's...
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