Amarna Period Egypt at the Brooklyn Museum
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Early Hand Tools and Farm Implements
Columbia County Historical Society, Kinderhook, New York
This exhibit of early hand tools and farm tools at the Columbia County Historical Society in Kinderhook argues for the expressive beauty of these objects. They are obviously handmade and made singly — the asymmetries are fascinating and add life to the pieces.
They share an additional point in common – they are objects to amplify the force of a farmer’s abilities, extending his or her reach, power, ability to grasp or cut. As such, they feel uncanny, almost as if imbued with their own force. I wonder what happens in the museum at night when it is empty and the lights are out.
Tom Sachs: Bronze
Acquavella Gallery, New York, November 7 – December 13, 2024
Yayoi Kusama, “I Spend Each Day Embracing Flowers”
David Zwirner Gallery, New York, May 11 – Friday, July 21, 2023
Yayoi Kusama is one of Japanese Pop-Art’s leading lights, combining monumental works with a minimal, feminist, and conceptual blend of sculpture and painting. Her signature gesture is a field of dots, in the case of this show applied to monumental abstracted squash / biomorphic shapes. The effects range from bland to transcendent.
The New York Times comments on her instagram-perfect immersive scenarios:
“It’s a beautiful effect. (Or it was for me, alone in the room; you’ll be sharing the experience with up to three other visitors at a time.) But you needn’t be Dr. Freud to diagnose that the narcissism of a new selfie-devoted public has canceled, utterly, the goals of self-obliteration that Ms. Kusama intends her infinite installations to achieve. The self cannot dissolve when the selfie is the goal.”
