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Between Disciplines on Humanities Commons
I was pleased to be asked to write a commemorative post for the Humanities Commons Platypus blog in honour of HC's first anniversary. You can read the full text here or after the jump. Between Disciplines on the Commons What is the relationship between the humanities...
The Dead in Ancient Rome
Funerary imagery permeated Roman culture and riddled the visual landscape. Representations of death in the form of monuments and statuary are the best-known artifacts of Roman Imperial customs surrounding death, but these static glyphs complemented a “lively” practice...
Gillian Wearing and Claude Cahun: Behind the Mask, Another Mask
During 2013 when I lived in München Gillian Wearing had a mid-career retrospective at Museum Brandhorst and a poster of the image you see here, "Self Portrait at Seventeen Years Old" (2003) was on placards all over the city as well as a huge replica on the side of the...
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Much as I enjoy burying the lede, the headline on this story is that I found a heretofore unpublished photo, and this is the Franz Marc photo, taken in the spring of 1914 by the artist's brother, Paul Marc, in Munich: The whole story of finding the Franz Marc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...
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