two types of museums

Historical exhibitions maintain a difficult balance between serving an archival purpose and presenting an aesthetic experience. The prior requires a lot of reading in addition to viewing an artwork, an artwork that in many cases of contemporary art are ephemeral (Marina Abramovic),  in the process of deterioration (almost every video made by an artist in …

a very sexy printing press

Acconci marked his body with traces of the feminine, traces that resisted full erasure since he could not easily rid himself of his sticky, red-stained lips.

Radiohole’s Whatever, Heaven Allows at the Walker Art Center

Sometimes it’s better to be succinct rather than garrulous. Here is my review: Radiohole is Brechtian, but they’re trying too hard. Trying too hard, like my younger cousin in Connecticut who is already pretty, but aims at looking like one of those honey-tan girls on the Hills or one of those shows she watches and …