New post up! On spectacle, attentional gradients, and Marina Abramović. #Art #ArtWriting

https://uses.substack.com/p/arena-and-spectacle

I found the center of the gallery floor, closed my eyes, and spun slowly—first clockwise, then counterclockwise, then clockwise again until my sense of orientation began to fade. I held my arm out in front of me, and opened my eyes. My hand pointed directly to a vermillion red pot with a crawl glaze. I recognized it immediately from an earlier walk through the gallery. It felt a little bit fated: did I choose it, or did it choose me?

#Art #Ceramics #ArtWriting

https://uses.substack.com/p/oracle-pot

New post up! Writing this week about the amazing mid-century ceramic work of Doyle Lane, a Black, gay potter who lived and worked in LA.

If you’re in NYC, catch the show while you can.

#Art #Ceramics #Pottery #ArtWriting

https://uses.substack.com/p/oracle-pot

This week’s installment of “Ways of Seeing” takes inspiration from Martin Buber’s beautiful “I and Thou,” which points towards more intimate and beautiful ways of relating to art. to each other, to the world.
#Art #Seeing #ArtWriting #Trees

https://open.substack.com/pub/uses/p/ways-of-seeing-2?r=8oef&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post

Falling into a painting can be like a drug.

#Art #Painting #ArtWriting

https://uses.substack.com/p/double-take

I wrote about what it means for a work of art to be remembered and Cecilia Vicuña’s beautiful Arte Precario (Precarious Art).

#Art #Memory #ArtWriting #Sculpture

https://uses.substack.com/p/memory-objects-precarios

I wrote about Pandora’s box and the silence of the art object.

#Art #Myth #Mythology #ArtWriting #AmWriting

https://uses.substack.com/p/pandora-marfa

I wrote about the experience of trying to remake one of Eva Hesse’s sculptures, and whst it was like to find the remains of experiment five years later.

https://uses.substack.com/p/eva-after-eva

#Art #WomenArtists #ArtWriting #AmWriting

Dear Friends,

I’ve been thinking about travel, and the way in which it offers shifts of perspective.

I recently carried this question into Renee Gladman’s show of drawings at Artists Space.

— Sal

My newsletter, The Uses of Art, is free to read or subscribe.

#Art #ArtWriting #Travel #CreativeNonfiction

https://uses.substack.com/p/body-exposed-in-the-golden-wind

I'm gonna ponder this:

https://austinkleon.com/2023/02/19/a-blog-post-is-a-search-query-to-find-your-people/

My posts are here: https://www.lizruest.com/category/articles/

#ArtTalk #ArtWriting

A new essay on my substack, considering Felix Gonzalez-Torres
and the work of art as a Zen koan. Free to read or subscribe. https://uses.substack.com/p/public-opinion #art #artwriting #zen

A new Substack post talking about Marina Zurkow’s collaboration with James Schmitz at bitforms #Gallery in #NewYork

Dear Friends,

I’ve been thinking for some time now about how change happens, what drives social and political changes, what individuals can do (and what they can’t)...

Thanks to all who have subscribed! I appreciate you coming on this adventure with me.

Subscribe (free) or just read: https://uses.substack.com/p/zurkow

#DigitalArt #GenerativeArt #Art #ArtWriting #Climate

The Village Zendo’s book group will be discussing The Uses of Art online this Sunday. All are welcome and I’d love to see you. https://www.salrandolph.com/news/village-zendo-book-group #BookGroup #Reading #Art #ArtWriting

I started a Substack today. I’m imagining it as a space to write and dream forward from my book, The Uses of Art. I’ll begin with encounters with art and spiral out into all the things I’m preoccupied with: slow time, attention, experience, how we make change, how we live in this world. I’ll make some connections between contemporary art and Zen Buddhism. There will be some experiments and some weirdness. Free to subscribe. https://uses.substack.com/p/writing-into-the-sky

#Substack #Newsletter #ArtWriting #Zen

Read my first article for @hyperallergic, about Cyclona’s #drag legacy on younger artists:

https://hyperallergic.com/784654/founding-mother-southern-california-chicano-drag-scene-cyclona/

#dragqueen #hyperallergic #art #artwriting #chicano #chicanoart #queerart #writing

Dear mastodon friends,

We don’t know each other very well yet, but if you're in New York, please join me for a book party and reading on Friday, January 20. I’d love to meet you in person.

I'll have books on hand and would be delighted to sign your copy.

The Uses of Art
Book Party & Reading -
Friday January 20
5:00-7:00 PM
588 Broadway, Suite 1108
New York, NY

https://www.salrandolph.com/news

#reading #NewYork #bookstodon #ArtWriting #ArtHistory #Memoir

Our first actual #ArtManifesto is a piece of writing by #GustavCourbet talking about his view of the label Realist that he felt imposed on him.

#ArtHistory #Art #ArtWriting #substack

https://artmanifesto.substack.com/p/realist-manifesto

My latest Substack newsletter on photography just dropped: Capturing Time: Time and Time Again

https://notlikehere.substack.com/p/capturing-time-time-and-time-again?sd=pf

#MastoArt #photography #substack #writing #longexposure #artwriting #mastodonwriting

Curious about The Uses of Art? You can read an excerpt here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Content/Site106/FilesSamples/9798986799018.pdf (Thank you to my friend Vita for demonstrating!). #ArtWriting #ArtCriticism #Art #Attention #Experience #Participation #Reading #Bookstodon

Curious about The Uses of Art? You can read an excerpt here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Content/Site106/FilesSamples/9798986799018.pdf (Thank you to my friend Vita for demonstrating). #ArtWriting #ArtCriticism #Art #Attention #Experience #Participation #NewBook #Bookstodon