Three Bard Faculty Pen Reviews for Artforum May 2022 Edition
LR: Susan Aberth, Ed Halter and Alex Kitnick.
Art History Professor Edith C. Blum Susan Aberth, Critic-in-Residence Ed Halter, and Assistant Professor of Art History and Visual Culture Alex Kitnick were featured in the May edition. 2022 from art forum. Aberth reviewed Supernatural America: the paranormal in American art, an exhibition currently on view at the Minneapolis Institute of Art, which includes works according to Aberth “inspires us as we set out to contemplate just how limited our human perceptions of this world and everything around it truly are.” Halter reviewed the work of the Otolith group, seeing in their work “hints of a sixth sense that may be the true star of cinema, an inner sense of space and time, of forward movement – that is, our deepest sense of orientation in the world, the basis for all image diagrams and concept mapping.Finally, Kitnick reviewed Livescurrently on view at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles is an eclectic exhibit that includes, among other things, “nine marble lions sometimes mounted by dancers” and “a neo-constructivist monument to interspecies interbreeding.”
Publication date : 05-10-2022