It’s All About Good Timing: Goodwater at the Plumb
For the ancient Greeks, the division of time was represented by a separation of chronos from kairos. To symbolize durational or cyclical time, Greco-Roman…
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Wide Open Spaces: Pacifico Silano Emancipates His Gay Erotica
Pacifico Silano’s practice is based in appropriating and rephotographing the imagery in gay erotica magazines published between 1969 and the late 1980s. In less-adept…
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The Subtle Evolution and Marked Aging of Michael Smith’s “Mike”
Michael Smith belongs to the first wave of artists who made extensive use of mass-media imagery and formats in their work. His conceptually-minded peers…
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It’s Not Stealing If It’s Art: A Re-Primer on Image Appropriation for the Internet Generation
… every text is from the outset under the jurisdiction of other discourses which impose a universe on it… [text operate] within the totality…
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Querying the New Appropriation Art: Is This Cynicism?
The Denny Gallery may have given themselves a curatorial headache with the title of their current exhibition, Share This! Appropriation After Cynicism. There are…
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The Miserable Quips of Brad Phillips
Love makes love, hate makes hate, and disdain has a strange way of eliciting both. Brad Phillips’s show I Didn’t Retire, I Surrendered, a…
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