I was 29 when I saw Francesca Woodman’s retrospective at Wellesley College in 1986. Her allusions weren’t exactly foreign — they actually felt familiar — yet I felt unhinged by them. As an art historian familiar with Surrealism, I was completely used to images made by men that essentially spoke to men even as they […]
There is a room in my house that’s supposed to be mine. It’s small, yet it has potential. But since we moved last November and until now, it’s had dumperitis: everything which hasn’t yet found a permanent place elsewhere in the house has found its way into that room. Recently, I took action, …by dumping […]
In case the reader noticed that I changed the name on the front page from “weblog” to “post studio” last week: it signifies my enthusiasm for various kinds of art practices that can be termed “post studio,” in the sense of “beyond, after, outside of” the studio (i.e., beyond cloistered practice). Open practice, mixed practice, […]
Fcuk. Julie on Perpetualkarma uses this word occasionally — I first saw it in London on t-shirts made by ‘French Connection United Kingdom,’ but she means it in the sense of you-know-what — and it sums up perfectly what I feel right about now. fcuk. Just like that. * haven’t had a good night’s sleep […]
Two weeks more or less until Betsy Burke’s latest book is released! Way to go, BB — I’ve pre-ordered my copy!
I’ve been reading Jorge Luis Borges lately, and was blown away by his 1934 essay, “The Doctrine of Cycles.” Since this is my blog and I can post anything I want, I’m going to write about it. Too bad if anyone thinks it’s too esoteric or too long. First, I don’t know whether I should […]
“We all pay the price when we’re interconnected. There’s no way of avoiding that because all the jurisdictions in the northeastern part of North America interchange power.” Officials said late Thursday they were particularly concerned about a potentially dangerous surge once power was restored that could cause further blackouts as far as Manitoba and the […]
This is a story that Conrad Atkinson tells: “[S]omeone asked me to say something about culture, and I told them about an incident that occurred when I was in Moscow for the second time, in 1991. I was a guest of Moscow News [the English-language weekly newspaper of Moscow], so I got all the scoops […]
British Columbia it seems is tying if not starting to beat out Ontario as a high tech centre. Most of the action is in the Lower Mainland (Vancouver region), and much of it is also focussed on biomedical research (via UBC especially). It therefore seems fitting that one of the Canadian winners of Adbusters’ memefest […]
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