{"id":607,"date":"2009-05-27T09:38:43","date_gmt":"2009-05-27T16:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp\/2009\/05\/the_star_chart_of_a_curators_b\/"},"modified":"2009-05-27T09:38:43","modified_gmt":"2009-05-27T16:38:43","slug":"the_star_chart_of_a_curators_b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/05\/the_star_chart_of_a_curators_b.html","title":{"rendered":"The star chart of a curator&#8217;s back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bruceguenther.net\/\">Bruce Guenther<\/a>, senior curator, <a href=\"http:\/\/portlandartmuseum.org\/\">Portland Art Museum<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"mt-enclosure mt-enclosure-image\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bruceguentherstar.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/bruceguentherstar.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-center\" style=\"margin: 0pt auto 20px; text-align: center; display: block;\" width=\"215\" height=\"150\" \/><\/span>More than a decade ago, I saw a photo of of this tattoo and distinctly remember it being horizontal lines wrapping the torso. Subtle but all-encompassing. Turns out, instead of Agnes Martin, he&#8217;s celebrating celestial navigation?&nbsp; Pure abstraction? Cracks in ice? Himself, while his flesh remains well muscled? As he ages, he can be his own collapsing star. <\/p>\n<div>Related post <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/2009\/05\/coming-to-the-portland-art-mus.html\">here<\/a>. (Thanks to LaValle for this picture.)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Guenther, senior curator, Portland Art Museum: More than a decade ago, I saw a photo of of this tattoo and distinctly remember it being horizontal lines wrapping the torso. Subtle but all-encompassing. Turns out, instead of Agnes Martin, he&#8217;s celebrating celestial navigation?&nbsp; Pure abstraction? Cracks in ice? Himself, while his flesh remains well muscled? [&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-607","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\/607","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=607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/anotherbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}