Dia:Beacon, in the fall. October 28, 2017. Train departs from the grand, Grand Central Station. Outside the window, a lone kayaker. The Hudson River is a deep gray blue. The trees dark orange and yellow; a yellow just this side of green. Greens are deep green; the sky is a clear strong, purple blue backdrop. … Continue reading
Let’s start with Xu Bing’s pieces Cultural Animal from 1994 and his earlier work A Case Study of Transference from the previous year. Two works that confront us with the brutal collision between two cultures. Cultural Animal presents us with an even more harsh reality than its predecessor when the artist replaces the female pig … Continue reading
Fall has arrived in New England. It was a perfect weekend for sampling apple cider donuts and visiting the Bennington Museum with my spouse. Once a Catholic Church, the museum has undergone many renovations and expansions overtime. Its origins can be traced back to the 1777 battle of Bennington during the Revolutionary War and a … Continue reading
Writer, what kind of words will you fetch to awkwardly describe what drawing can instead perfectly represent? Don’t bother with words, unless you are speaking to the blind…don’t mess with things that belong to the eyes. Don’t try to smuggle them as something belonging instead to the ears. You will always be overruled by the … Continue reading
by Mark White Santana is the title Swiss-born sculptor and painter Jean Tinguely chose for an early kinetic sculpture. The word Santana has many meanings, and it’s possible that Tinquely used it in reference to the Sanskrit word Sanatana; sanatana dharma means the eternal way. When the sculpture Santana is static, is seems incapable of … Continue reading
As many of our readers already know the Proximity Arts blog was born out of the inaugural summer session of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts low residency MFA program. Many of our contributors including Liz who manages the blog are currently in their second of three summer sessions in residency. Over the summer months … Continue reading
