{"id":391,"date":"2009-04-05T17:03:21","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T00:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/04\/stacked_glass_as_if_nobody_els\/"},"modified":"2009-04-05T17:03:21","modified_gmt":"2009-04-06T00:03:21","slug":"stacked_glass_as_if_nobody_els","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/04\/stacked_glass_as_if_nobody_els.html","title":{"rendered":"Stacked glass, as if nobody else had done it, on Culture Monster"},"content":{"rendered":"

An oblivious form of regional art criticism pretends that the art in question exists on it own, without reference to the larger world. Reminds me of a derisive little ditty on the philosophy of George Berkeley, pronounced Barkley.<\/p>\n

Dr. George Berkeley hinted darkly
If I cannot see you, you cannot be you.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A review of Katherine Gray on Culture Monster<\/a> is an excellent example of the type. It opens with an observation that might have been supportable 30 years ago:<\/p>\n

Katherine Gray works in a medium — glass — that rarely takes center stage in a contemporary art gallery not already given over to craft or design.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Onward to description, followed by more description:<\/p>\n

The centerpiece of the show, Forest Glass<\/i>, is an installation
\nconsisting of a pair of free-standing, clear acrylic shelving units,
\neach roughly 9 feet tall and around the breadth of a coffee table,
\nloaded with hundreds of mismatched thrift store glasses.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Good idea, stacked glass. Who has done it before? For starters, Tony Cragg<\/a>, Louise Bourgeois<\/a>, Dante Marioni,<\/a> Josiah McElheny<\/a> and Ann Gardner<\/a>. Gardner stacked mismatched thrift-store glass in the 1990s, no examples online. All of these artists, by the way, have shown in contemporary art galleries (and museums) not already given over to craft or design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An oblivious form of regional art criticism pretends that the art in question exists on it own, without reference to the larger world. Reminds me of a derisive little ditty on the philosophy of George Berkeley, pronounced Barkley. Dr. George Berkeley hinted darklyIf I cannot see you, you cannot be you. A review of Katherine […]<\/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-391","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\/391","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=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}