{"id":1782,"date":"2010-06-23T14:24:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-23T21:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2010\/06\/i_deemed_the_weather_offensive\/"},"modified":"2010-06-23T14:24:25","modified_gmt":"2010-06-23T21:24:25","slug":"i_deemed_the_weather_offensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2010\/06\/i_deemed_the_weather_offensive.html","title":{"rendered":"Weather as art"},"content":{"rendered":"

I deemed the weather offensive, the way the air lay on me like a giant tongue – clammy, warm and gritty as embers. <\/p>\n

Galveston<\/a> <\/i>Nic Pizzolatto<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sometimes the weather that isn’t there is all the weather you need.<\/p>\n

Buddy Bunting<\/a> 2004 ink on paper<\/i><\/p>\n

\"buddybuntingsign.jpg\"You can drown in it, even it you’re already dead.<\/p>\n

Andres Serrano Piss Christ<\/a> 1987<\/i><\/p>\n

\"andreserranochrist.jpg\" <\/p>\n

Sky to land: Drop Dead. In the photo that documents
\nsky’s insult to land, a  loogie hawked out of the sky lands with a muffling thud on a pine tree. The tree tops a mountain, with white air
\nsurrounding the tree as a reverberation.<\/p>\n

Debra Baxter<\/a>, Spent, late 1990s<\/i><\/p>\n

\"debrabaxterloogie.jpg\"If your world is the inside of a jar, what surrounds you is your weather.<\/p>\n

Lauren Grossman<\/a>, 1989<\/i><\/p>\n

\"laurengrossjars.jpg\"Too wet to plow: Juniper Shuey<\/a> Untitled
\nc-print
\n12.5″ x 15.5″
\nedition of 3
\n2005<\/i><\/p>\n

\"junipershueywet.jpg\"John Cheever once said he “missed the sky” in the novels of a contemporary. Elmore Leonard isn’t likely to say the same. One of his rules of writing is, “Don’t start with the weather.” Visual artists can make the weather primary without the burden of adjectives. <\/p>\n

Grant Barnhart<\/a> Killing Time with Sleeping Pills and Holding On
\n16\u00d720, Acrylic on canvas (2009)
\n<\/i><\/p>\n

\"grantbarnhorse.jpg\"In honor of Pizzolatto<\/a>, whose debut novel Galveston<\/i> is excellent noir, I’ll end with its weather equivalent.

Grant Barnhart, Two Road Agents Meet at an Impasse
\n48\u00d748, Acrylic on canvas 2009 (Ambach & Rice<\/a>)<\/i><\/p>\n

\"grantbarngun.jpg\"<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I deemed the weather offensive, the way the air lay on me like a giant tongue – clammy, warm and gritty as embers. Galveston Nic Pizzolatto Sometimes the weather that isn’t there is all the weather you need. Buddy Bunting 2004 ink on paper You can drown in it, even it you’re already dead. Andres […]<\/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-1782","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\/1782","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=1782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}