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Peter Walsh

Film Review: “Wojnarowicz: F**K YOU F*GGOT F**KER” — Homage to a Perpetual Rebel

The documentary covers a lot of dark and tragic territory, but it remains entertaining throughout, no doubt more than anything else from its skill in capturing the fierce, tender, acidic, brilliant, and ultimately inextinguishable energy of its subject, artist David Wojnarowicz.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review Tagged: Chris McKim., David Wojnarowicz, Peter Hugar, Wojnarowicz: F**K YOU F*GGOT F**KER

Visual Arts/Film Review: “Elliott Erwitt — Silence Sounds Good” — Far From Dull

Aside from making generalities about “making good photographs” and “earning a living,” celebrated photographer Elliott Erwitt steadfastly refuses to be drawn out.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Film, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Adriana Lopez Sanfeliu, Cargo Film, Elliott Erwitt, Elliott Erwitt -- Silence Sounds Good, Magnum, Photography

Book Review: “Great Demon Kings” — A Comet Circling Gas Giants

John Giorno was in the vanguard of what later became the herd: Ginsberg, Kerouac, Warhol, Buddhism, Burroughs, enlightenment, spiritual quests to India, unfettered sex, wild poetry, new technology, experimental forms of expression, queer politics, pot, speed, LSD —  all the household bric-a-brac of the counterculture.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Great Demon Kings, John Giorno, Ugo Rondinone

Visual Arts Review: The Art of Kara Walker — A Mix of Cozy Charm and Historic Horror

How, as an African-American visual artist, do you represent something that no one wants to think about, much less look at? Kara Walker’s solution is ultimately an aesthetic one.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: civil-war, Kara Walker

Visual Arts Review: The National Academy of Design — Another New Chapter?

This fascinating exhibition surveys the entire history of the National Academy membership and, almost incidentally, provides a potent cross-section of the history of American art and its discontents.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: For America: Paintings from the National Academy of Design, National Academy of Design, New Britain Museum of American Art

Book Review: A Concise, Conscientious Guide to the Life and Work of Alfred Stieglitz

The book will stand as a good first stop for anyone interested in Alfred Stieglitz, 20th-century photography, or American modern art.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Visual Arts Tagged: Alfred Stieglitz, Jewish Lives, Phyllis Rose, Yale-University-Press

Book Review: “Exposed” — Between Two Incompatible Worlds

Jean-Philppe Blondel’s books are especially praised by critics for their charm and smoothly-shaped prose.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Exposed, Jean-Philppe Blondel, New Vessel Press

Book Review: “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” — A Kind of Apotheosis

In more pedantic hands, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen could easily have been a tedious and frustrating read. Instead, despite the dense and ultimately inconclusive source material, the book is continuously fascinating.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Camille Laurens, Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, Other Press, peter-Walsh, Willard Wood

Visual Arts Review: Surrealism — One of America’s Favorite Art “isms”

Despite its serious treatment of surreal art, Monsters & Myths is a real delight.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Monsters & Myths: Surrealism and War in the 1930s and 1940s, peter-Walsh, surrealism, Wadsworth Athenaeum

Visual Arts Review: “Life, Death & Revelry” at the Gardner Museum

Life, Death & Revelry explores the aura of the Farnese Sarcophagus from several points of view, including those of the conservators who recently cleaned it of decades of accumulated grime.

By: Peter Walsh Filed Under: Featured, Review, Visual Arts Tagged: Death & Revelry, Farnese Sarcophagus, Gardner Museum, Life

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