{"id":1636,"date":"2010-03-07T23:22:57","date_gmt":"2010-03-08T07:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/03\/michael_schall_-_the_closer\/"},"modified":"2010-03-07T23:22:57","modified_gmt":"2010-03-08T07:22:57","slug":"michael_schall_-_the_closer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/03\/michael_schall_-_the_closer.html","title":{"rendered":"Michael Schall &#8211; the closer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of artists tell stories. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelschall.com\/\">Michael Schall<\/a>&#8216;s interest in a narrative quickens once it&#8217;s over. His drawings could be closers at a movie, coming up as final credits roll.<\/p>\n<p><i>Snow Tracks<br \/>\ngraphite on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 2009 <\/i><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"michaelschallsnowtrks1.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/michaelschallsnowtrks1.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"401\" width=\"500\" \/>His drawings are not a final scene but what comes after, either as summary (<i>Snow Tracks<\/i>)&nbsp; or coda (<i>Untitled below, 8 x 11 inches, graphite on paper<\/i> <i>2009<\/i>). Even if an ending proves grim, lead balloons can still lift a dump truck into the air &#8211; heavy things joining to defy gravity. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"michaelschalltruck2.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/michaelschalltruck2.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"text-align: center; display: block; margin: 0pt auto 20px;\" height=\"403\" width=\"487\" \/>At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.platformgallery.com\/current.html\">Platform Gallery<\/a> through March 27. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of artists tell stories. Michael Schall&#8216;s interest in a narrative quickens once it&#8217;s over. His drawings could be closers at a movie, coming up as final credits roll. Snow Tracks graphite on paper, 22 x 30 inches, 2009 His drawings are not a final scene but what comes after, either as summary (Snow Tracks)&nbsp; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1636","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}