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“Once Upon a Time…”
Jonas Wood

The sense of freshness and clarity conveyed by Jonas Wood’s paintings, and by their emotionally cool and unruffled air, have sometimes prevented them from being taken quite as seriously as they should be. And that was true right from the beginning—for instance, when the New Yorker ran an unsigned notice of the Angeleno’s first New York exhibition in 2007, saying, “Wood’s paintings are extremely likable—although ‘reassuring’ might be an equally apt description. Like fashion designers or musicians who draw on styles of earlier eras, Wood has hit on a formula that is at once familiar and fresh.” That’s not exactly a bashing by any means, but still, according to the art world’s implicit value system, “likable” and “reassuring” are not positive characteristics, and neither is “formula.” “Edgy,” “critical,” “confrontational” are the things to be. Wood is talented, was the implication, but lightweight, maybe even superficial.
“INSURGENCE/ RESURGENCE”
Jon Sasaki
Wanda Koop
Attila Richard Lukacs
The Way It Is: “The Life of Greg Curnoe” by James King
Momenta: Biennale de l’image
Tough Love

Kelly Mark works hard as the self-employed worker Kelly Mark. For over two decades the Toronto-based artist has been making videos, drawings, sculptures, text pieces and performances that have earned her a reputation as one of Canada’s most important conceptual artists.
The Fitter

In July of 2014 the American artist Nancy Rubins opened an exhibition of sculptures at Gagosian in New York with the name “Our Friend Fluid Metal.”
Notes on a Celluloid Gold Mine

The history of culture is a negotiation between what we already know and what we still have to find out. Every once in a while a discovery is made that adds something new to that elusive process.
Cooking Knowledge

Jorge Luis Borges’s short story “The Library of Babel,” Aby Warburg’s Atlas Mnemosyne project, British cookery writer Elizabeth David’s A Book of Mediterranean Food and the series of 28 instructional cookbooks published by Time-Life in the early ’80s called “The Good Cook” have two things in common.

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