transversal poetics confronts modern art

The Corkinhorn Gallery’s current exhibition, Painting Transversally, rides the frontiers of literary criticism and literary theory to raise profound questions for modern art.  Painting Traversally violently interrogates modern arts’ failure to become post-modern.  It complicates the relationship between art object and art consumer and implicates mass media and corporate America in the symbolic commercialization and … Continue reading transversal poetics confronts modern art

modern art of commerce

Art collections and art exhibitions tend to focus on things that can be collected and moved — artifacts.  Yet digital technologies and the Internet make particular human creative efforts potentially available to everyone, everywhere.  Unlimited Edition, a juried show that opened on December 12 at the Arlington Arts Center, highlights “works that explore mass production, … Continue reading modern art of commerce