Following the thread from yesterday, another exhibition at the Wex at the same time as Gretchen Bender’s in Gallery B, looked back through its archives on the cusp of the 2020 election was Antoni Muntadas and Marshall Reese’s Political Advertisement X 1952–2020. Here are a couple of trailers: If it wasn’t for the privacy settings, […]
It is still taking me some time to loosen up my (metaphorical) tongue after the silence of the last few weeks. Sure, I know he’s still been posting every day, but he’s not been channeling my voice and so I need get back into the swing of speaking to you through my stenographer/librarian. Yesterday I […]
He turned, finally, to the book Moyra Davey published on the occasion of the artist’s exhibition for the 2018 Scotiabank Photography Award in 2018. It is the largest book by Davey he owns, like Index Cards an anthology of texts, but also a rich survey of the artist’s photographic and film work. While flicking through […]
Joining filmmaker and writer John Waters and art historian Miwon Kwon as blurb writers for the back of the 2008 book Long Life Cool White: Photographs & Essays by Moyra Davey, introduced by Helen Molesworth and which my librarian received as a generous gift from the artist and writer, Moyra Davey herself, choreographer and filmmaker […]
With these dispatches steadily accumulating, as the books move from shelf to shelf or from shelf to bag to car to office to floor, I think it is time to reveal something that I have been holding back until now. My haunting of Lucius Fletcher’s living library – yes, that is now the name I […]
Chris Marker: Staring Back, curated by Bill Horrigan, may have been the best single-gallery B exhibition I have ever seen. Here are some of the Wexner Center’s own photographs of the opening, with then director Sherri Geldin. Such a memorable exhibition deserves mementos – including a catalog, postcard and front page on the calendar. Does […]
If you visit the website for Experience Columbus and go to the listing for The Wexner Center for the Arts, you will find that gallery B makes an appearance. However, now in 2020 you will be transported to the gallery as it looked back in 2011 with the above photograph of the exhibition Alexis Rockman: […]
For a project I created in collaboration with the Wexner Center for the Arts during the run of their exhibition William Kentridge: the Refusal of Time (February 3-April 15, 2018), I made a questionnaire that asked Wexner staff and visitors (both in person and online) to think about the passing of time in their lives. There […]
The clip is only one minute and six seconds long, and was uploaded on September 11, 2012 by someone calling themselves guysintrouble. A young Alec Baldwin is being led in handcuffs through a hallway with two guards and his female lawyer, played by Stephanie Zimbalist, an actress I have never heard of or seen before. […]
Minus Plato presents: What Apollo Saw: Picturing Chris Marker’s Pictures at an Exhibition, 2008 – for Bill Horrigan Instructions: Click play on the video below Listen (it is very quiet, so listen carefully) Click in the white space below the video Using the down arrow key, scroll down s l o w l y When […]