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Featured Review: Great Rivers Biennial: Martin Brief, Sarah Frost, and Cameron Fuller at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

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Published June 2, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

Featured Review Great Rivers Biennial A consciousness of art's ability to speak to issues beyond itself pervades this triptych of large-scale installations by the three recipients of this coveted regional honor. In Martin Brief's Amazon God , scrolls depicting what appear to be EKG o ...

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Rivers' Return

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Published April 28, 2010 at 12:00 a.m.

The Great Rivers Biennial provides three local artists the chance to mount a major exhibition of their work at a major institution, namely, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Boulevard; 314-535-4660 or www.contemporarystl.org). Thi ...

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Through the Past, Twice

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Published Jan. 20, 2010 at 1:00 a.m.

Two artists with a modern approach to the past bring their work to the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Boulevard; 314-535-4660 or www.contemporarystl.org) this Friday, January 22. As a solo musician and member of the Red Krayola, St ...

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Curating Chaos

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Published Nov. 12, 2009 at 1:00 a.m.

the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there , the current exhibition at Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Boulevard; 314-535-4660 or www.contemporarystl.org) is devoted to the ideas of curiosity an ...

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STL DPB On The Road: San Francisco

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Published Oct. 16, 2009 at 6:00 a.m.
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Mrs. C. and I are in SF for a legal conference in my specialty. Actually, I played hooky most of the day. This is the view of the Embarcadero ferry terminal at the foot of Market Street, shot from the end of the hall of our hotel ... The focus of the day was the Richard Avedon show at the SF Museum of Contemporary Art. It overwhelmed me. At times the brilliance of the work literally brought tears to my eyes. It felt a little silly to call myself a photographer after viewing 200 of Avedon's

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The Pulitzer Foundation

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Published Oct. 9, 2009 at 6:00 a.m.
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The Pulitzer Foundation For the Arts is a small jewel, little known outside St. Louis. It opened in 2001 with support from the estate of the late Joseph Pulitzer and the continuing gifts of his wife, Emily. Pulitzer was the publisher of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for 34 years and, yes, that's the family that established the Pulitzer Prize ... The building is small for a museum but breathtaking, designed by the Japanese architect Tadao Ando. The Pulitzers had one of the greatest collections of

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I Wish I Lived At This Intersection

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Published Oct. 3, 2009 at 6:00 a.m.
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Our Grand Center arts and entertainment district includes Powell Hall, home of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra; the Fox Theater, where the big Broadway shows play; the Sheldon Concert Hall, an acoustic gem; the Black Rep theater; the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts; our Contemporary Art Museum; the local public radio and television stations, and more. It's where Dancing In The Street was held last weekend. There's a lot going on ... However, here and there on Grand Boulevard are these sad

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Pawnage

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Published Sept. 30, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn't there , the excessively-named current exhibit at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Boulevard; www.contemporarystl.org or 314-535-4660), espouses the virtue ...

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Stumbling in the Dark, Gladly

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Published Sept. 9, 2009 at 12:00 a.m.

For the blind man in the dark room looking for the black cat that isn’t there ... is an unwieldy title, but it tells you everything you need to know about the new group exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (3750 Washington Boulevard; 314-535-4660 or ...

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STL DPB On The Road: Chicago

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Published July 13, 2009 at 6:00 a.m.
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Some readers of this blog must think I'm never at home anymore. Well, sometimes. This is the north stairwell of the outstanding Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago. If you are in the area, you gotta go see the exhibit Take Your Time with work by Olafur Eliasson. It simply blew us away ... I got lots of other good shots yestersay at the Chicago Folk and Roots Festival, as well as the Cubs - Cardinals baseball game (Cards win!). It's late Sunday night as I write this. I'll post some pix as soon

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