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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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Run Away With The Circus. Stay Home.

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Published Jan. 12, 2010 at 7:00 a.m.
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Regular readers may recall that I had a post on New Year's Day about our First Night festivities and particularly the troupe of young acrobats known as the St. Louis Arches ... A couple of days later, I got an email from Jessica Hentoff, the artistic and executive director of Circus Harmony, the school and performance group that teaches "the art of life through circus education." There's a circus school in St. Louis! Jessica invited me to one of their rehearsals and shows at the wacky City

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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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Hajimemashite!

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Published Jan. 4, 2010 at 7:00 a.m.
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We interrupt the last interruption of our First Night coverage because this is too good to pass up ... The St. Louis Art Museum has had a show about Japanese screens, produced with the Chicago Art Institute ... We've been wanting to see it and since yesterday was closing day it was, uh, time to get over there. My wife and I entered the museum by a back door near the parking lot and walked by a little cafe run by the Wolfgang Puck outfit - and I stopped dead in my tracks ... Who and what was

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SLAM

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Published Dec. 16, 2009 at 7:00 a.m.
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SLAM is a bit of a hard acronym for the St. Louis Art Museum, more suited to professional wrestling than aesthetics. Still, it's a really good regional museum and it had some happy news this week. A major expansion of the museum was put on hold 13 months ago because of the financial crisis. The Board just decided to go forward with the project, all financing in place. At a time when almost no American art museums can afford to grow, SLAM is adding 30% to its exhibition space and a 300 car

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That Apotheosis Thing Again

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Published Dec. 18, 2009 at 7:00 a.m.
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When I was looking for an image to use for my 1,000th post I considered this one. It would have been okay but I'm glad I cooked up that bit of silliness that made it online. We've seen this guy before, Louis IX, King of France, Saint Louis. it's the statue in front of the art museum. You can see its position in Wednesday's post, behind the tree farthest to the right ... The official name of the statue is The Apotheosis of St. Louis. This town could use an apotheosis, that's for sure ...

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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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Autumn For A King

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Published Oct. 27, 2009 at 6:00 a.m.
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So that's the big dude himself, St. Looie, a/k/a Louis IX, Roi de France. He's been here several times before, his monumental statue standing in front of the St. Louis Art Museum (motto: dedicated to art and free to all. How ya gonna top that?), looking down the broad slope of Art Hill. No doubt the trees in the background were planted, at least in part, for their spectacular fall color. They look regal ...

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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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