I usually hate this month, but the weather is not that bad and there are lots of interesting things happening.
-Puppy wars- This is where I stand on the religious war between the protestants vs. Papist Saltz. I don't think either side is right or wrong. They are both. Koons is not the ultimate 000 artist. Yau is not dickish, yet his article is badly written for him and trite. And Koons does stand as the American version of Murakami and Hirst.
-Boston is rotating curators- Clean cup move down! to quote the Mad Hatter. I wish Jen Mergel the best of luck at getting what no one else has been able to do done at the MFA. Helen Molesworth may be the best choice for the ICA. That's yet to be seen. Both of these women are wonderful curators. Mergel apparently was looking for more curatorial and less paper work and Molesworth may have been annoyed by the delays in Allston.
-Editing as composition- I've noticed this popping up recently in people's work. Mostly photographers, but not always. Currently, Kayafas and Yezerski have up shows that support this notion. First, Pelle Cass edits together images from a multiple photographs of the same scene. Second Gary Schneider takes hand illuminated close up photographs of naked people. Yezerski also has shown Curtis Mann in the past who works in a similar manner of editing to compose his photographs.
