A Sky filled with Shooting Stars

      I know it’s beyond a joke now, but having experienced “Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective” at the Met yesterday I now formally reinstate it as New York’s museum show of 2009. I admit I was thrilled by the Guggenheim’s “The Third Mind”, and because I enjoyed such a breadth of the work [...]

    I have written here several times about how highly I rate the Guggenheim’s current show “The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860–1989”.  I have called it “Exhibition of the Year!” and celebrated its “trust in the chance gesture and the unconsidered act … which for someone of my sensibilities is an utter [...]

I have sung the praises of the Guggenheim’s “Third Mind” show repeatedly here on A Sky filled with Shooting Stars. What I haven’t mentioned here yet is the “Third Mind Live” series that continues through April 17, though I have already written about Meredith Monk and Laurie Anderson’s performances for Total Theatre in London. Last [...]

  I’m happy to admit that Ann Hamilton is one of my favorite artists. And, as of this moment, she is the first artist to be represented twice in that long list of interviews in the left sidebar of this page. Ms Hamilton is one of the most intelligent and inquisitive individuals I have ever [...]