Mitchell (2)
A Room
Sunday, October 11, 2020
At the Art Institute two weeks ago, I wandered into a room of Abstract Expressionism. Either the arrangement of the space or my mood had changed and it was as if I had never seen any of it before. Choucair, Trajectory of a Line with DeFeo, The Annunciation . [...] more
Joan Mitchell: Cities in Winter
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Two weeks ago, I went to the Art Institute to spend some time in the new modern wing and my attention was caught by a Joan Mitchell from 1955 called City Landscape.
Since the election I have been thinking about cities, and living in them, the ways that a city’s life may be dealt a blow.
It is December in Chicago, and cold, and I saw the heart of the city, what the wall text calls “nerves and arteries” in the colors, so many, too many to look at all [...] more