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Anyone familiar with Paul Pfeiffer’s pioneering moving-image work knows that he has been out ahead of “the culture” for more than twenty years. Yet the manipulations and labors he thought to exert on at-one-time recalcitrant film and video frames have now been incorporated into platform and persuasion technologies that have touched us all, whether we’re aware of it or not.
Cora was a relentless and ambitious maverick. She was constantly reinventing her work. She wouldn’t settle, wouldn’t stop exploring abstraction. The paintings always seemed to lead her.
Elder statesperson of the Minimalist genre Robert Grosvenor continues to grapple with the strong but inscrutable link between exercises in pure form, i.e. Minimalism, and the found object/Readymade. In both cases there is a superficial lack of narrative: the ubiquitous “it is what it is.”
A sequence of “what if?” questions pulls the reader into this book about twentieth-century avant-garde composer John Cage. “What if…all the sounds...
Composers count themselves lucky when musicians continue to perform their music after their death.