Free Time / Freeing Time: In Praise of Boredom and Uncertainty (Part II)

by A.R. Warwick, Fall 2011 After writing part one of this series, I started thinking about looking at boredom from a different angle. Rather then focusing on tedium, especially that imposed under the elitist purview of modernist criticism, this installment will focus on the revolutionary potential of boredom, as suggested in the writings of Walter…

What Does Light Look Like? Love, Silence and the Paradoxes of Being in the Paintings of Vilhelm Hammershøi

by Ben Rose, Fall 2011 Vilhelm Hammershøi (1864-1916) is one of few Danish painters to have gained considerable reputation throughout Europe during his lifetime. While acknowledgement within Denmark was scarce until the mid-twentieth century, critics and poets from around Europe—famously including Rilke, who intended to write an entire book on the Dane’s work—recognized in his…

Notes on Pacific Standard Time

by Jody Zellen, Fall 2011 What is Pacific Standard Time? How might it differ from Eastern or Mountain Standard Time? Is Pacific Standard Time an attitude? A movement? Or is it simply an umbrella under which to reconsider art made in Los Angeles (as well as in California) by a diverse group of artists from…

The Bearden Project

by Michael Pepi, Fall 2011 Romare Bearden was born in North Carolina on September 2, 1911, and one hundred years later the Bearden Foundation has organized a centennial celebration of his birth. The yearlong celebration will be spread across multiple entities and will take several forms. Major institutions with Bearden in their collections—the Metropolitan Museum…

Art and Time

by Lucy Cantwell, Fall 2011 At a fundamental level, all art and creative output is the result of some expenditure of time, as time is the medium in which thought and physical construction take place. However, much of how we experience art is removed from time, not only the passage of time as it relates…

A Letter from the Editor

by Danny Kopel, Fall 2011 These five essays comprise the eighth volume of the Artwrit quarterly, fast approaching its second year. Volume VIII is yet another iteration of our firm commitment to extended discourse on art and culture, ever thoughtful and ever relevant. To clarify, our notion of relevance–as far as the quarterly is concerned–has less to…