Not exact matches
Tamar Zinn finds comfort
from current events in three abstract painting exhibitions: Mark Rothko: Dark Palette at Pace Gallery, New York (through January 7), Carmen Herrera:
Lines of Sight at the Whitney Museum (through January 9), and Agnes Martin at the Guggenheim Museum (through January 11).
Shedding light on the respective histories of these trends are the
current and altogether absorbing exhibitions of encrusted, cascading paint
events by Larry Poons,
from the 1970s, and playful tinkerings with
line, both flat and not,
from the second half of the 1980s by Al Taylor.
What follows is a curious
line - up of «surprise»
events in the festival's opening week: a performative lecture on the
current sound installation by Eva Kietzmann and Petra Kübert for uqbar; an evening of visuals and performances titled Preview Tableau Vivant at Grimmuseum; and the new (edible) works
from multi-disciplinary artist and chef, Søren Aagaard, for Kinderhook & Caracas.
What is more, past global warming has included both minor and mass extinction
events (e.g. PETM, Permian - Triassic extinction) so even if
current warming is in
line with what's repeatedly been experienced in the past, it doesn't follow that either the process of warming or the end result are desireable
from the perspective of maintaining an advanced, affluent, complex human society based on creating reliable surpluses of food for 7.5 + billion people.