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Archives for June 2008

Chris Burden: What My Father Got Me

June 23, 2008 by John Perreault

                                                                 Father's Day 2008   Majid Majidi's The Willow Tree (2004) is an art-house tearjerker about answered prayers. A blind man is able to see. As a crowd of well-wishers throws flowers to greet our newly sighted Professor Youssef at the Tehran airport, the camera lingers … [Read more...]

Olafür Eliasson: Underneath a Waterfall

June 3, 2008 by John Perreault

                                                                                       Olafur Eliasson: Ventilator, 1997     For weeks now my Eliasson … [Read more...]

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I have written about art for a number of years, specializing in first-person art criticism as art critic for the Village Voice, then in the Soho News. I have championed... Read More…

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ARTOPIA is an art diary featuring my evaluations of the art I see in galleries, museums, public spaces, and sometimes in artists' studios. I specialize in new art or art that needs to be looked at in a fresh way, in terms of contemporary practice. … [Read More...]

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