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Robert R Shane

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Associate Curator, University Art Museum, Albany, NY former Contributor, The Brooklyn Rail PhD Art History & Criticism, Stony Brook University (he) Pfp alt text: man with medium length brown hair, round glasses, and black suit smiling at camera

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Timing Pulses: The Interoceptive Art of Allan Kaprow’s 'Time Pieces' The artist's 1973 work invites participants to feel time through heartbeats, breath, and shared awareness.

“Timing Pulses: The Interoceptive Art of Allan Kaprow’s 'Time Pieces'” is now up at The MIT Press Reader. This article is an edited excerpt from the Time chapter of my book, 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙗𝙚𝙖𝙩 𝘼𝙧𝙩

thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/timing-pulse...

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In this painting, the subject reading the Parable of the Sower rests in a field of abundant greenery, suggesting rest as a radical act of resistance in a world that values labor and capital over care.

On rest and resistance, Because we love you (to all those stolen from among us), 2020
Firelei Báez

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Thanksgiving Day parade - Pink Panther balloon peeks around the corner of an apartment building where two children look out, view of the city

Thanksgiving Day parade - Pink Panther balloon peeks around the corner of an apartment building where two children look out, view of the city

Elliott Erwitt, 1988

Macy's Parade

28.11.2024 12:08 — 👍 137    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 1

Thank you! 🙏🏻

17.11.2024 00:59 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Feels like Mimi Smith's clothing and clock sculptures are the most radical. Clothing and clocks are perfect forms for feminist conceptual art.

25.05.2024 11:38 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

Blown away by the Smith’s clocks in your quote thread. Thank you so much for sharing this! 📌

17.11.2024 00:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Organized around a series of key operations in Nevelson’s own process (dragging, coloring, joining, and facing), the book comprises four slipcased, individually bound volumes that can be read in any order. Both form and content thus echo Nevelson’s own modular sculptures, the gridded boxes of which the artist herself rearranged. Exploring how Nevelson’s making relates to domesticity, racialized matter, gendered labor, and the environment, Bryan-Wilson offers a sustained examination of the social and political implications of Nevelson’s art. The author also approaches Nevelson’s sculptures from her own embodied subjectivity as a queer feminist scholar. She forges an expansive art history that places Nevelson’s assemblages in dialogue with a wide array of marginalized worldmaking and underlines the artist’s proclamation of allegiance to blackness.

Text that reads: Organized around a series of key operations in Nevelson’s own process (dragging, coloring, joining, and facing), the book comprises four slipcased, individually bound volumes that can be read in any order. Both form and content thus echo Nevelson’s own modular sculptures, the gridded boxes of which the artist herself rearranged. Exploring how Nevelson’s making relates to domesticity, racialized matter, gendered labor, and the environment, Bryan-Wilson offers a sustained examination of the social and political implications of Nevelson’s art. The author also approaches Nevelson’s sculptures from her own embodied subjectivity as a queer feminist scholar. She forges an expansive art history that places Nevelson’s assemblages in dialogue with a wide array of marginalized worldmaking and underlines the artist’s proclamation of allegiance to blackness.

From the publisher:

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Louise Nevelson's Sculpture A daring reassessment of Louise Nevelson, an icon of twentieth-century art whose innovative procedures relate to gendered, classed, and racialized forms of m...

Might Julia Bryan-Wilson’s 4-part monograph on Nevelson be helpful? The four slim volumes are meant to be read in any order and are organized by multivalent themes that cut across chronology: drag, color, join, face.

yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...

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Four people in a museum looking at paintings of people

Four people in a museum looking at paintings of people

Three people walking by a wall of small oil paintings

Three people walking by a wall of small oil paintings

Man staring at a painting of a woman

Man staring at a painting of a woman

Woman walking by paintings of young girls

Woman walking by paintings of young girls

The Paula Modersohn-Becker exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago was a pleasure to tour and looking at people looking at the paintings was strangely pleasurable because of the content and intimacy of the art on display.

11.11.2024 13:59 — 👍 27    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0

Looks fantastic!

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It happens from time to time as bsky is trying to handle so many new users. But it usually goes away after an hour or so or after refreshing the app.

17.11.2024 00:23 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

There’s not nearly enough attention to this recently opened exhibition in Paris on Nadia Léger whose life and career (including as teacher in Léger’s free, non-hierarchical, and gender mixed Atelier moderne) has much to offer about women’s experience in the Parisian avant-garde.

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Artist Jeffery Gibson’s work installed at Mass MOCA: lit dance floors and colorful jingle dresses and video monitors hung from the ceiling in a dark space.

Artist Jeffery Gibson’s work installed at Mass MOCA: lit dance floors and colorful jingle dresses and video monitors hung from the ceiling in a dark space.

Artist Jeffery Gibson’s work installed at Mass MOCA: lit dance floors and colorful jingle dresses and video monitors hung from the ceiling in a dark space.

Artist Jeffery Gibson’s work installed at Mass MOCA: lit dance floors and colorful jingle dresses and video monitors hung from the ceiling in a dark space.

Artist Jeffery Gibson’s work installed at Mass MOCA: lit dance floors and colorful jingle dresses and video monitors hung from the ceiling in a dark space.

Artist Jeffery Gibson’s work installed at Mass MOCA: lit dance floors and colorful jingle dresses and video monitors hung from the ceiling in a dark space.

Artist Jeffery Gibson’s work installed at Mass MOCA: video of two Native dancers-slash-drag queens with disco music in the background.

Artist Jeffery Gibson’s work installed at Mass MOCA: video of two Native dancers-slash-drag queens with disco music in the background.

Jeffery Gibson, who represented the U.S. at the Venice Biennale this year, has a massive show at Mass MOCA. The vibe is queer Native disco.

12.11.2024 16:27 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

📌 Amazing!

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Registration QR code for Sara Ahmed public talk @UBC Okanagan

Registration QR code for Sara Ahmed public talk @UBC Okanagan

If you are free, join us for a public talk with Sara Ahmed, Nov 20, 9AM PST on Changing Institutions: Common Sense, Complaint and Other Lessons in Legacy #complaint

14.11.2024 21:04 — 👍 23    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 1
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Elizabeth Catlett’s Life as a Revolutionary Artist A retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum conveys that Catlett’s artistic practice was inseparable from her dedication to Black and Mexican revolutionary politics.

It strikes me that this Elizabeth Catlett show at the Brooklyn Museum is the inspiration we all need:
hyperallergic.com/963313/eliza...

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A Rare and Important Table by Isamu Noguchi - Chicago Gallery News A Rare and Important Table by Isamu Noguchi Panel Discussion and Auction PreviewFriday, November 15 | 5:30 – 7:30 p.m.Discussion beings promptly at 6 p.m. Heritage Auctions is proud to bring a rare an...

Chicago people, come hear me talk about Noguchi and a pretty amazing table tomorrow night, with some fantastic colleagues, at Heritage Auctions. Event starts at 5.30! www.chicagogallerynews.com/events/a-rar...

14.11.2024 22:14 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Storm King : Individual : Isamu Noguchi [454]

Not one of his Playscapes, but Noguchi’s “peach pit” at Storm King is one of our family’s favorites. Fun to climb inside!

collections.stormking.org/Detail/entit...

15.11.2024 22:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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