Author: Marin R. Sullivan
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Dr. Sharon Hecker and I have organized a two-day, international study day on the state of Postwar Italian Art History. Sponsored by the Italian Art Society and generously hosted and supported by the Center for Italian Modern Art in New York, this event will take place next month, on Feb. 9 and 10. It will bring…
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This past autumn, I began a new position as Assistant Professor of Art History in the Art Department of Keene State College in Keene, NH. As a result, there has simply not been enough time to regularly, or even irregularly, post new material to this blog – which up to this point has been about “sculptural things” and not specifically…
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I reached that point last week where I desperately needed to stop writing about art and just go look at some. This overwhelming hunger to consume actual things, physical objects and images, led me to do a little binge-viewing this past weekend here in Chicago. The Art Institute offered a reinstallation of their modern collection…
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Happy New Year! Yes, January is already almost over, but I am finally feeling like I have emerged from the endless crush of projects that seem to pile up at the end of the semester/year and the haze that is the holiday season. In reflecting back on the last month, however, I could not help but…
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The 55th installment of the Venice Biennale has come to a close, ending yet another months-long, ever-expansive spectacle of contemporary art seen by 475,000 visitors, in a century’s old city that remains a spectacle in and of itself. The sheer scale and scope of the exhibition–this year comprised of a main exhibition curated by Massimiliano Gioni entitled The…
Sculptural Things 