Dazzled, then puzzled. An absolutely captivating, visually and cerebrally stimulating, frequently quite hilarious few hours at the Tacita Dean show at the Norton–including a good hour chatting with the artist–and for weeks afterward, trying to re-capture the moment, I’m grasping at air, coming up empty-handed, mind blank: What was that all about? The unsettling afterglow [...]
By Steven Scorpio As if drowning, the history of Western art flashes across the canvasses of Jenny Saville: the pale musculatures of Michelangelo, the agonies of Goya, De Kooning’s bravado, the discomforting torsos of Lucian Freud. These masters are all male, of course, and Saville is steeped in feminist theory. It informs her work thoroughly [...]
“Altered States,” the Norton’s new show, messes with your head the minute you step into the museum. On the far wall of the building’s lobby a gargantuan, site-specific installation, Vibrating Strands of Energy, ripples along, 13 feet high and 56 feet long, protruding in places like a frieze on some ancient temple. But the movement [...]
The location of a show of photography in a set of rooms subsidiary to Now WHAT? could foster the impression that it is of secondary value. It is most emphatically not. A survey of work by masters including Diane Arbus, John Coplans, Walker Evans and Vik Muniz, STARE: The Pleasures of the Intensely Familiar and [...]
Charles Stainback, curator of photography at the Norton Museum of Art, told the opening night crowd for Now WHAT? that he’d wondered what the museum’s new director, Hope Alswang, would make of the “wacky” proposal he and curator of contemporary art Cheryl Brutvan had dreamed up: The two would mosey on down to Art Basel [...]
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