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Jaune Quick-to-See Smith and Joy Harjo in Seattle
Jaune Quick To See Smith (center)and her Son Neal Ambrose-Smith with Whitney Curator Laura Phipps at “Memory Map,” exhibition in Seattle Art Museum, in front of Gifts for Trading Lands With White People Jo Harjo reading her poem “Running” from her book An American Sunrise https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8vwqWJsJiI During […]
This entry was posted on August 7, 2024 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Salvador Dali: Disruption and Devotion
A Visiting Contributor! Pamela Allara is an art historian and critic who lives in Boston. Salvador Dali, Disruption and Devotion Museum of Fine Arts, Boston July 6-December 1, 2024 If someone had told me in the 1970s that someday that I would write that Salvador Dali is not […]
This entry was posted on July 26, 2024 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Assimilations: John Feodorov’s new exhibition
“I am for an art that kicks my soul in the ass. And if we do not have souls, I am for an art that makes me feel like I have a soul, and that it has just been kicked in the ass.” John Feodorov is always provocative and outspoken on the subject […]
This entry was posted on June 12, 2024 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Raven Returns
Raven is Back! Raven, the creator in the Tlingit mythology, rescued humans from darkness by stealing the sun. “He was a white bird and the world was in Darkness. Raven decides he will try and do something about the darkness, for himself and for the world. As he follows the Nass River, he […]
This entry was posted on June 8, 2024 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Henry Taylor, Ruth Asawa, Kay Walkingstick
Henry Taylor 8th floor roof of Whitney Museum of Art, November 2023, Untitled, bronze, 2020 In early November on a trip to NYC, I saw exhibitions by Henry Taylor, Ruth Asawa ( Whitney Museum) and Kay Walkingstick (New York Historical Society): it was wonderful to see the work […]
This entry was posted on January 7, 2024 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Linda Okasaki: Into the Light
Linda Okazaki: Into the Light Retrospective Exhibition to February 25, 2024 Bainbridge Island Museum of Art Dazzling color paired with emotional depth and brilliant handling of the watercolor medium strike us right away in Linda Okazaki’s paintings in her retrospective exhibition at the Bainbridge Museum of Art. Okazaki has lived in Port […]
This entry was posted on December 23, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Hokusai and Calder
HOKUSAI AND CADER AT THE SEATTLE ART MUSEUM: UNEXPECTED SYNERGY This holiday be sure to make time to go to the Seattle Art Museum to see “Hokusai Inspiration and Influence” (to January 21) and “Calder: in Motion, The Shirley Family Collection” (to Aug 4, 2024.) Both expand our understanding of these two famous artists. […]
This entry was posted on December 22, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Indigenous Artists and Climate Change
Indigenous Artists and Climate Change National Nordic Museum, 2655 NW Market St 98107, ph: 206.789.5707 Hours: Tues-Sun 10am-5pm; Admission: varies by age, see website; FREE on first Thursdays Sorry it ended on Nov 26. “Arctic Highways” by Meryl McMaster (b. 1988) What Will I Say to the Sky and the Earth II, 2019 (in the […]
This entry was posted on November 25, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Contemporary Art in St Paul’s Cathedral and some personal experiences
From last spring, I forgot to post. Contemporary cross by Gerry Judah who was born in Calcutta and moved to London when he was ten. The imagery suggests cities falling apart, catastrophes. St. Paul also had a lot of statues to colonial leaders with accomplishments like “reduction of French West Indies” meaning […]
This entry was posted on November 25, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Change
Finally, museums are offering us exhibitions that directly address climate change. “Arctic Highways” at the National Nordic Museum, until November 26, features twelve Indigenous artists from the circumpolar North (Sápmi, Canada, and Alaska) who address “the silent and the silenced knowledge” of their Sámi culture. Laila Susanna Kuhmunen opens […]
This entry was posted on October 23, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Latinx Performance Art, Men in Dance, and Indigenous People’s Day Celebration
Dhyana Garcia’s pre show Butoh event outside King Street Station Tatiana Garmendia (IMG is movie) La Boveda: My Mother’s Kitchen IMG_3555Dhyana Garcia Victoria@ King Street Station. THis was a long piece and she constantly metamorphosed. Xavier Lopex and Katherine Adamenko Soft Cyborg meets the Beauty Borg crazy costumes Katherine Adamenko had a second piece called […]
This entry was posted on October 14, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Gail Tremblay and Alfredo Arreguin
Memorials for Gail Tremblay (1945 – 2023), Alfredo Arreguín, (1935 – 2023) This summer we had memorials for two special artists, both deeply concerned about our planet: Gail Tremblay, Native American poet and multimedia artist, and Alfredo Arreguín, Mexican and American painter. Gail Tremblay was a close friend for many years, I only met Alfredo […]
This entry was posted on August 28, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map at the Whitney Museum
As we come into the installation of Jaune Quick- to- See Smith’s exhibition at the Whitney Museum, the first piece we encounter is the enormous Trade Canoe Forty Days and Forty Nights. 2015 named after the journey of Noah’s ark. Trade canoes are a major theme in Smith’s work. In this exihbition we […]
This entry was posted on July 18, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Michelle Kumata What We Carry/ O que nós carregamos
Michelle Kumata (right) with Cora Edmonds (left), founder of Artxchange Gallery, now ArtX Contemporary, at the beginning of Michelle’s gallery talk in her exhibition “What We Carry/ O que nós carregamos” The story is fascinating. Kumata’s great grandmother went to Brazil in 1927 with all but two of her children. Michelle’s grandmother […]
This entry was posted on June 27, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Daniel Alexander Jones I Choose to Remember Us Whole (Altar no 3)
“I Choose to Remember Us Whole (Altar no 3)”, a project by Daniel Alexander Jones On a sunny midday in May, I joined about 50 people for a procession sponsored by Meany Center for the Performing Arts that was part of “I Choose to Remember Us Whole (Altar no 3).” Daniel […]
This entry was posted on June 26, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Antelope, The Hop and Turner
In London Trafalgar Square on the Fourth Plinth we saw “Antelope” by Samson Kambalu from Malawi It restages a photograph of a Baptist preacher and pan Africanist John Chilembwe and European missionary John Chorley as a sculpture “The photograph was taken in 1914 at the opening of Chilembwe’s new church in Nyasaland, now […]
This entry was posted on May 30, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Contemporary Art in Cathedrals : Lincoln and Ely
On our recent trip to the UK to visit Henry’s wonderful familly, he wanted to visit two cathedrals, Lincoln and Ely. With a few logistical tricks and help from the family we made it to both! After we went I could see why he wanted to see them so much. Here is Lincoln Cathedral, from […]
This entry was posted on May 30, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Nalini Malani at the National Gallery London “My Reality is Different”
Nalini Malani’s immersive animated installation at the National Gallery London plunges us into a world of bizarre figures, creatures, and energy waves that swirl and constantly change shape as they invade the complacency of the people in famous European paintings, bit by bit . Nalini Malini (That’s a clip from the installation. […]
This entry was posted on May 27, 2023 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
At the Tate Modern Part II Maria Bartuszová and Magdalena Abacanowicz
I just read an editorial by Eddie Chambers in the Art Journal, that women artists are still being slighted in the art world and by art historians. Price wise their art has much less value and they are not given the same attention in museums because, Chambers declares that curators say they are “in hock” […]
This entry was posted on May 21, 2023 and is filed under Contemporary Sculpture by Women, ecology, Uncategorized. -
At the Tate Modern Part I: Cecilia Vicuña
We missed the Cecilia Vicuña full installation. It was being taken down when we were there, but the label and a piece of it was still visible Since I didn’t fully experience it, I give you the label information: “In the Andes people did not write, they wove meaning into textiles and knotted cords. […]
This entry was posted on May 12, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Mike Nelson’s “Extinction Beckons” at the Hayward Gallery London
“Extinction Beckons” by Mike Nelson gives us decay, nostalgia, destruction, resurrection, all layered in profoundly moving installations. I first saw his work in Istanbul at the Büyük Valide Han, a caravanserai built in 1561. That installation is one of several recreated at the Hayward, but my experience of seeing it in […]
This entry was posted on May 11, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
The Wondrous World of Ikat at the Seattle Art Museum until May 29
Curator Pamela McCluskey began the tour of her dazzling new “Ikat” exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum by pointing out that almost all the clothes we wear are made from oil based polyester with toxic dyes. “Ikat” celebrates cotton, harvested and dyed by hand in a technique used for centuries. […]
This entry was posted on April 2, 2023 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Rita Robillard Time and Place
Nesting from the series Flower Serenade: A Gift of Time 2021 “Rita Robillard Time and Place”, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem Oregon Tuesday to Saturday noon – 5pm Until March 25, 2023 Rita Robillard was a colleague of mine in the art department at Washington State University in Pullman in the […]
This entry was posted on February 9, 2023 and is filed under Art and Ecology, Contemporary Art, landscape, Printmaking, Uncategorized. -
Mygration: Sámi Reindeer Herders in Alaska
Note: this article was published in a slightly different form in Art Access, and Leschi News. Mygration : Tomas Colbengtson and Stina Folkebrant National Nordic Museum until March 5 Did you know that Rudolf, the celebrity reindeer of Santa’s sleigh would have to be a female. Male reindeers shed their antlers in the winter. […]
This entry was posted on December 27, 2022 and is filed under climate change, Uncategorized. -
“The Stories We Carry” Rethinking American art history
The New Installation of the American Art Galleries at the Seattle Art Museum* Outside the first gallery is this work by Nicholas Galanin, Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum), 2022, an appropriate commentary on removing stolen Native artifacts from the British Museum. Nicholas Galanin is one of the three consulting artists for the […]
This entry was posted on December 14, 2022 and is filed under Uncategorized.
