Latifa Echakhch

With her exhibition “The After,” Latifa Echakhch led us into the memory of a collective rite, transporting us, in an era of social distancing, to the scene of some just-concluded event, perhaps a concert, in a remote place, perhaps a forest (read on at Artforum). Pretty impressive to see an artist my own age who has already shown at Biennale and won the Duchamp prize.

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Per Kirkeby

I vaguely remember the ’90s (I was early 20s so enough time has passed that it’s hard for one to be honest about their import at the time). Anyway, Per’s work from that time grabbed a young artists who loved painting, but really didn’t want to like the neo-expressionists who I was sure at the time actually hated painting (see what I mean?). RIP

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Bradley Walker Tomlin

Getting ready to teach this Spring, and was perusing MOMA’s collection, using filters for the twentieth century, to look for artists which might make good examples for any one of the six concepts I want to cover in the class. My search turned up (among others that I’ll blog about over the next couple of weeks) a piece by Bradley

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