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Manifest(o) Destiny March 11, 2009
Manifest(o) Destiny. Beth Wilson on political art and Surrealism.
Portfolio: Huma Bhabha October 28, 2008
Beth E. Wilson talks with sculptor Huma Bhabha about travel, culture, psychology, and the uniqueness of her “humble” materials.
Lucid Dreaming: Knowing Glances October 27, 2008
“The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art,” is view through February 1 at the Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College
Lucid Dreaming: Aesthetic Dis(interest) September 29, 2008
Beth E. Wilson analyses the importance of beauty in the sphere of business-as-usual politics alongside a discussion of the show “War: Material and Lies” at TSL in Hudson.
Portfolio: Lilo Raymond September 25, 2008
Lilo Raymond discusses her life, photography, and travels, along with her best and worst experiences, and what it’s like to be recognized.
Lucid Dreaming August 25, 2008
Beth E. Wilson previews “Origins,” a group show at the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art in Peekskill.
Unearthly Delights July 28, 2008
Beth E. Wilson examines the symbiotic relationship that exists between art and nature in the work of Katie Holten and Nina Katchadourian.
Portfolio: Ryan Sullivan July 28, 2008
Emerging artist Ryan Sullivan shares the influence the Children’s Media Project had on his life and graffiti-inspired artwork.
Portfolio: Tatana Kellner June 26, 2008
Co-director of the Women’s Studio Workshop in Rosendale, Czechoslovakian-born artist Tatana Kellner speaks about her own work in printmaking, photography, and her current installation that examines the history of women’s domestic labor on the back of white button-down shirts, Iron.
Touch Not the Cat June 25, 2008
Beth E. Wilson airs her grievances with the “Cat-n-Around Catskill” project.
Bust or Boom? May 27, 2008
Beth E. Wilson reviews shows at the Livingroom in Kingston, Kerhonkson General in Kerhonkson, and Spire Studios in Beacon.
A Tale of Two Artists April 28, 2008
Beth E. Wilson visits the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see the exhibits of works by Frida Kahlo and Lee Miller.
Portfolio: Nicholas Walster March 26, 2008
Photographer Nicholas Walster discusses his most recent series of works, Personal Panoramas.
Atrocities of Proximate Censorship March 26, 2008
Beth E. Wilson reviews “Intimacies of Distant War” at the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz and examines the recent dust-up over Wafaa Bilal’s exhibit “Virtual Jihadi” at the Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy.
Portfolio: Jared Handelsman February 25, 2008
Beth E. Wilson profiles photographer Jared Handelsman.
You Had to Be There February 25, 2008
Beth E. Wilson discusses recent art shows at the KMOCA in Kingston and the R&F in Kingston.
Drawn Together January 25, 2008
The Garrison Art Center will be holding the exhibition “Drawing Revealed” showing many different drawing styles and techniques.
Portfolio: Itty Neuhaus December 21, 2007
An associate professor of art at SUNY New Paltz, she engages many different media in her own art, including sculpture, collage, video, performance, and installation work.
The Force of Poetry December 21, 2007
After seeing this show by Anselm Kiefer at MASS MoCA, I’m afraid I’ll have an even harder time settling for the more arid, intellectual charms offered by Dia’s minimalism.
Lines of Thought November 26, 2007
Beth E. Wilson reviews legendary artist Saul Steinberg’s retrospective at Vassar College’s Frances Lehman Loeb Gallery.
Portfolio: Susan Wides November 26, 2007
Photographer Susan Wides explains how she went from wax museums to rooftops.
Ladder for Booker T. Washington October 25, 2007
Reflecting on the metaphorical qualities, Martin Puryear recognized a connection to progress Booker T. Washington encouraged blacks to adopt in the nineteenth century.
Portfolio: f-Stop Fitzgerald October 24, 2007
f-Stop Fitzgerald is an early chronicler of the punk scene in San Francisco. His photo exhibition “Rockers Shot Onstage!” at the Rosendale Cafe opens November 31.
Star Power October 24, 2007
Beth E. Wilson grapples with celebrity in contemporary art as she reviews the exhibitions of artists, Jo Andres and Keith Edmier.
Art Where the Cows Come Home September 25, 2007
Beth E. Wilson previews “Outdoor Sculpture Installations at Saunders Farm.”
Portfolio: Richard Merkin August 27, 2007
The great thing about being an artist is this: All the things you’ve done, all the pictures you’ve made, they’ll stay and say what you wanted to say.
The Future of an Illusion August 27, 2007
Documenta 12 has been subject to some of the most scathing criticism I’ve ever seen for a major art exhibition (aside from a few editions of the Whitney Biennial).
Portfolio: Sarah Mecklem August 03, 2007
Sarah Greer Mecklem is an artist whose life and career have always been intricately intertwined with the history and—more importantly—the experience of the Hudson Valley.
Lucid Dreaming August 02, 2007
“Bivouac” takes a witty, somewhat arch approach to art, inventiveness, and imagined survivalism, while “Paths: Real and Imagined” gravitates toward an archetypal/metaphorical reading of its stated theme.
July Portfolio: Pamela Wallace June 29, 2007
Dutchess County resident Pamela Wallace has crafted for herself a life with a single organizing principle—the sheer act of making.
Art and Allusion June 27, 2007
Without a doubt, the sheer intensity of experience available at the Ulster County Jail is unmatched anywhere else in the Biennial.
June Portfolio: Linda Montano May 31, 2007
Linda Montano has explored art, life, and spirituality in her innovative performance work for almost 40 years.
Add Viewer, Stir Gently May 29, 2007
A provocative installation of minipaintings by Lucio Pozzi at BCB Art in Hudson this month.
Portfolio: Cannon Hersey April 28, 2007
If the world is to be saved, it’s people like Cannon Hersey who will spearhead the effort.
Portfolio: George Quasha March 30, 2007
George Quasha is something of a latter-day Renaissance man, with a wide-ranging list of accomplishments as a publisher, a poet, an artist, and an all-around inquiring mind.
Things Fall Apart March 29, 2007
Think of how often we seem to revel in the image of our own destruction. We seem, as a culture, to have fully embraced what Freud identified as the “death drive,” the erotics of Thanatos.
The Missing Mainstream Media February 27, 2007
MoMA is a public institution, funded with PLENTY of public funds…we ought to know what the management is being paid.
The Real Last Samurai February 26, 2007
A new show of prints by 19th century Japanese artist Chikanobu.
The story behind the story February 13, 2007
Reason #278 to be extremely dubious about any aesthetic pronouncements you hear coming from New York….
Money makes the world go around... January 30, 2007
There are only a few weeks left for you to get down to the City to see the Metropolitan Museum’s astonishing exhibition “Glitter and Doom: German Portraits from the 1920s”.
Lucid Dreaming January 17, 2007
Beth E. Wilson shows why McWillie Chambers’s sketches are much more than “identity politics”.
Welcome to Lucidities December 31, 2006
_Chronogram_’s longtime art critic discusses her blog’s intentions.
Lucid Dreaming December 26, 2006
Beth E. Wilson reveals how discomfort drives artist Ann Haaland’s work.