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Choreographer Ekman Mocks Art’s Critics With ‘Cacti’ in Seoul Debut

Alexander Ekman ⓒPatrick Miller Alexander Ekman is now counted among contemporary dance’s superstar choreographers. But 16 years ago,…
#EuropeSays #Korea #KR #Seoul #AlexanderEkman #artcriticism #Cacti #contemporarydance #DeathandtheMaiden #LeeSang-eun #SeoulMetropolitanBallet
https://www.europesays.com/korea/120440/

As I mentioned in a post I wrote a few minutes ago, Richard Wollheim's "Painting as an Art" has gripped me because it invites the reader to join the author in looking at pictures closely. His obituary mentions his own method as he applied it in galleries:

>> I evolved a way of looking at paintings which was massively time consuming and deeply rewarding. For I came to recognise that it often took the first hour or so in front of a painting for stray associations or motivated misperceptions to settle down, and it was only then, with the same amount of time or more to spend looking at it, that the picture could be relied upon to disclose itself as it was. I noticed that I became an object of suspicion to passers-by, and so did the picture that I was looking at. <<

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/nov/05/guardianobituaries.booksobituaries

Image: Richard Wollheim -- British Academy

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https://archive.org/details/kw-ny

Kara Walker—No, Kara Walker—Yes, Kara Walker—? by Howardena Pindell; Najjar Abdul Musawwir; Camille Billops; Betty Blayton Taylor; Camille Ann Brewer; Kirsten Pai Buick; Gregory Coates; Bob Dillworth; Gloria Dulan-Wilson; Cay Fatina; Theodore A. Harris; Sonji Hunt; Rashidi Ismaili; F. Geoffrey Johnson; Ben Jones; Charlotte Ka; Karsten Kredel; Howard McCalebb; Dindga McCannon; Tad Mike; Helen Evans Ramsaran; Senghor Reid; Gilda Snowden; Ed Spriggs; Harry J. Weil; Clarence D. White; Shirley Woodson

Topics
#KaraWalker, #artcriticism, #critique, #art, #Blackart, #Blackartists, #Blackartcritics, #Blackartcriticism, #africanamerikanart, #afroamerikanart, #primitivism, #antiblackness, #minstrelry, #stereotyping, #arthistory, #artindustry, #artmarket

Introduction: Kara Walker—No/Yes/?
SECTION I: KARA WALKER—NO!
• I-XXIX
SECTION II: KARA WALKER—YES
• XXX-XXXI
SECTION III: KARA WALKER—?
• XXXII
XXIII. APPENDIX
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