Theatre…Again

- Shannon Jackson -

The question of theatricality in visual art seems to raise its presumably ugly head repeatedly, if differently, in various stages of art history. The persistence of the question can be confusing, albeit intriguing, if one’s discipline happens to be theatre and the persistence of that question’s presumed ugliness even more so.

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Still Live: The Theatrics of the Kienholz Tableaux

- Damon Willick -

Presence Study

- Vishal Jugdeo -

The 5 Principles of the PoLAAT

- Alexandro Segade -

The Post-Living Ante-Action Theater, or PoLAAT, continues My Barbarian’s self-conscious translation of what is thought of as 1960s countercultural theatre into a performance of the present.

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Study for little else

- Vishal Jugdeo -

She Had a Laugh Like a Beefsteak

- Susan Silton -

Spectral Revision

- William Leavitt -

Scenes from Tschaicowskistrasse 17 (Embassy of the Republic of Iraq in Berlin, German Democratic Republic (GDR) [Botschaft der

- Walead Beshty -

In A Desert In A Large Bunker Covered With Snow

- Liam Gillick -

Gabriel Tarde suffered from intermittent periods of semi-blindness, an extreme form of myopia that may have severely affected his academic legacy yet may well have led to the most potent theme of a neglected yet important work. This nineteenth-century French sociologist, who worked on the notions of the inventive in relation to the imitative, immediately preceded Henri Bergson as the head of modern philosophy at the Collège de France.

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Art isn’t easy: Sunday in the Park with George in the Twenty-First Century

- David Román -

I Come to Bury Caesar: The Image of Theatre in the Imagination of Visual Art

- Judy Radul -

Consequential disciplinary boundaries are still detectable in the instances in which one art form conjures another. The symbiosis between visual art and cinema provides multiple examples, including Harun Farocki and Werner Herzog’s work adapted for the museum, and artists like Douglas Gordon, Stan Douglas, Rodney Graham, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Steve McQueen, et al., whose making works that engage cinema in the gallery.

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Buoys, Props & Signs

Richard Aldrich & Lisa Williamson

- Michael Ned Holte -

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Austin

RESET/PLAY
- Ivan Lozano -

Susan Collis
- Eric Zimmerman -

Boston

Jacques Louis Vidal
- Evan J. Garza -

Dallas

Richie Budd {read more}
- Michael Odom -

James Michael Starr
- Kim Alexander -

Fort Worth

Lifting: Theft in Art
- Erin Starr White -

Teresa Hubbard & Alexander...
- Noah Simblist -

Houston

Judith Cottrell & Alex Lopez
- Rachel Hooper -

Damaged Romanticism {read more}
- Kurt Mueller -

Nathaniel Donnett
- William Cordova -

The Dead Weight of a Quarrel Hangs
- Noah Simblist -

Jeff Shore & Jon Fisher
- Garland Fielder -

New York

Jim Pirtle {read more}
- Evan J. Garza -

Dargerism
- John Ewing -

Perverted by Theater {read more}
- John Ewing -

San Antonio

Sign Language
- Ben Judson -

Santa Monica

Surface Sounding
- Tucker Neel -

Washington, D.C.

Robert Misrach
- Kriston Capps -

Zurich

The Fullness of Time
- Judith Trepp -

Book Reviews

Art Power
- Garland Fielder -