Month: September 2013

• If you like art, y’all really should get yourself to Dallas…

  25 September 2013

  exhibitions

  Dallas, Dallas Museum of Art, Klyde Warren Park, Museum Tower, Nasher Sculpture Center, Nasher XChange, public sculpture, Return to Earth, sculpture exhibitions

  I haven’t posted any new entries over the past couple of weeks on account of a busy travel schedule that took me to from Chicago to Louisville (for a very lovely non-sculpture, though hilariously art history-related wedding), then to Dallas (for a very lovely new exhibition on ceramic sculpture), back to Chicago for night, before…

• Sculpture and Designed Things Part III: ‘Art is Useless’

  9 September 2013

  object studies

  Donald Judd, Furniture, Minimalism, Modern furniture, Richard Artschwager, scott burton, Specific Objects

  Richard Artschwager is not someone commonly taught in survey art history courses or an artist with widespread name recognition – something the recent retrospective exhibition attempted to rectify. Besides his use of non-traditional materials like Formica, part of the reason for this oversight is due to Artschwager’s ability to fit or not fit into a range…