Posts Tagged ‘reviews’
Where Are the Wild Things?
Only the 3rd day of its release and the theatre was no more than 20% full. Nevertheless, Spike Jonze's film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's children's book Where The Wild Things Are led the October 19th weekend box office taking in $32m, a promising beginning.By way of comparison, the #3 box office film for 2009 is the 3D animated feature Up, which [...]
Séraphine, Poor Mad Artist
The myths that underlie what Hans Abbing calls "the exceptional economy of the arts" are periodically reinforced by reality and when they are it is not unlikely that those rule-proving exceptions will be noticed, even celebrated, as if to say to unbelievers, "See, I told you so."Thus we have such ideas as: that art is situated so dangerously close [...]
Book reviews – timing and purpose
Art books are strange creatures. Like scholarly and other highly specialized books they aren't written for general audiences and don't get reviewed in the books sections of daily newspapers. When they do get reviewed, it's usually in art journals or magazines and you don't always find out, and or find out right away. Printed Matter was kind of [...]
