Tag: Chicago

• Destroy the Picture. Create the Object.

  5 April 2013

  exhibitions

  Chicago, Destroy the Picture, materiality, MCA, painting as object, Shozo Shimamoto

  Painting is something I rarely think about, or rather is an area of art production that I admire from a distance; having little interest in the issues that most commonly dominate its discussion – image, representation, flatness, etc. This is a gross oversimplification and no doubt a sign of medium narrow-mindedness on my part, but…

• Site without specificity – Picasso and Chicago

  29 March 2013

  exhibitions, public things

  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Pablo Picasso, Sculpture

  I promise this is not a blog solely about public sculpture, though I do find it interesting that I both feel the need to express that caveat and have been thinking about ‘public things’ a lot lately. Once you start looking for them, you realize these encumbered objects are everywhere, and while they take on…