Ross Bleckner, Crocodile Tears, 1985, oil on linen, 48 × 40 inches. Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery.
Ross Bleckner, Untitled, 1985, oil on linen, 48 × 40 inches. Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery.
Alphabets are limited; it’s the arrangement of letters that produces meaning.
Merging image and object.
The North American debut of Belgian choreographer’s work set to Johann Sebastian Bach’s cello suites.
Originally published in
Graham Swift, Horton Foote, Ping Chong & Pablo Vela, and David Deutsch.
Work that is just about the technical or conceptual, personal or political, is fine; it meets the world with what’s in fashion. But there’s something else bordering on magic, that brings an artwork home, makes it land and resonate. You can’t really teach that so much as conjure it.
Kara Walker
