Slow Looking
Art historian, author, educator
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The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things. Leonardo da Vinci
In Untitled (pint of Guinness) by Patrick Caulfield from 1966, a full pint of dark stout sits on a circular table. Beneath it are pools of spilled drink: this isn’t th...
What can ancient objects teach us about artificial intelligence?
“Face”, Olmec artist(s), 900-400BCE. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
A stone was found one day in a riverbed in Mexico. Sometimes you get lucky. This stone, worked free of the river mud and pulled up through the water, was just wh...
Paintings to breathe with
Michael Armitage’s painting Curfew (Likoni March 27 2020) from 2022 takes up one wall in his current exhibition at Palazzo Grassi, Venice. It does not, as other paintings often do, hide that wall, or make it disappear. The wall is kept in v...
Zurbarán and the art of erasure
This is a painting of a piece of cloth. Because it is itself painted onto cloth (in this case canvas stretched over a wooden support), it’s a particularly self-reflexive work of art: cloth painted onto cloth. This is an artist for whom clot...
"History is not the past"
“Room with all Existing Words” at the Temple of Mithras. The exhibition consists of three objects (I didn’t get a good picture of the third). The title seems to come straight out of the newspaper (see caption below).
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