Monthly Archive for April, 2012

Digital Residue: a Guided Tour of Thomas Leeser’s Museum of the Moving Image

Like the cameraman, Thomas Leeser’s Museum of the Moving Image takes on an attitude of investigative invasiveness, exposing the cool blue, triangulated wire frame, and infinite possibility of the digital medium. Modestly inserted behind the austere linear façade of the historic Columbia Studios, the visitor enters through a thin reflective film patterned with the triangulated [...]

Flavin’s Many Hands: Dan Flavin’s Drawing Exhibition at the Morgan Library

Behind the highly constructed, conceptual, and diagrammatic lines of Dan Flavin’s  celebrated neon light compositions lies a surprisingly brooding and lyrical hand, practiced in many mediums and styles but seemingly ambivalent about a fixed artistic identity, forever foraying onto the territory of other artists in a fastidious meander through method and manner. As if suffering [...]