Twombly’s work is a win-win because it does not force us to think or feel at all, except insofar as the work reminds us that most of what we think and feel we are afraid to speak publicly about. (And this, perhaps, for good reason?)
Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: African-Americans, art, art museums, Museum of Modern Art
This post juxtaposes brief notes with reproductions of five women-focused works at Chicago’s Art Institute. Readers are invited to make whatever connections they will and draw whatever conclusions they might between the art works, which seem to me unified only in their focus on women, in the genius of their making (by men, by the way), and by their co-existence in one Chicago institution. I would also note that these works are not unified even in their reproducibility. Three of these works are sculptures, […]
Categories: William Eaton, ZiLL • Tags: art, Art Institute of Chicago, art museums, Balthus, Jean-Paul Sartre, Laura Mulvey, male gaze, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mirό, Roland Barthes, Willard Van Orman Quine, women
Responding to my interest in the financial roles played by fine art (e.g. how it is used to launder money and how museum shows are used to maintain or increase the value of art collections), an art historian friend recently lent me Paul Werner’s Museum, Inc.: Inside the Global Art World (Prickly Paradigm Press, 2005). Werner shoots from the hip, at times with dazzling, witty results, and at times leaving a reader (or this reader) scratching his head and wishing Werner […]
Categories: William Eaton, ZiR • Tags: art, art museums, democracy, finance
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