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Two Approaches: Camille Henrot and Zarina Bhimji
Published January, 2015 Pelicanbomb.com In the beginning there was nothing; nothing at all. No light, no life, no movement, no breath. — Camille Henrot, Grosse Fatigue, 2013 Artist and musician Akwetey Orraca-Tetteh’s booming voice pounds through the monologue of Camille Henrot’s film Grosse Fatigue, now on view at Longue Vue House and Gardens for Prospect.3. A dense, […]
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Review: “The Glass Menagerie”
Pelicanbomb. April 6, 2012 For years I would pass by museum exhibits of blown or cast glass in silent judgment. I regarded the medium as tacky; from millefiori paperweights to the art of Dale Chihuly, it all seemed frilly at best and ridiculously bourgeois at worst. While I have great respect for the processes of […]
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Round Up: The Best of Prospect.2 New Orleans: Lorraine O’Grady
Pelicanbomb. November 9, 2011 “Avant garde art doesn’t have anything to do with black people.” This statement made by one of Lorraine O’Grady’s acquaintances was the impetus for the artist’s 1983 performance piece Art Is…, which emphatically proclaimedthat avant-garde art is black people, black neighborhoods, black culture, and black issues. Thephotographic documents of this performanceare […]
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