Exquisite Liquid Marble Installation Resembles Moving Water

Gerhard Richter - details of Fuji, 1996, Catalogue Raisonné: 839-81, oil on alu dibond

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Anything for Jazz: A Jaki Byard Documentary

Jaki Byard was a phenomenon. He had a complete knowledge of the history of jazz piano and could play all of it within the course of single tune. His imagination was limitless (check out his haunting, dirge-like reading of Mingus’s Fables Of Faubus) and his contributions to the music of Charles Mingus, Booker Ervin, Eric Dolphy, Sam Rivers and others is breathtaking. This 1980 documentary by Dan Algrant is a 22-minute gem. Once in the early ‘80s. while I was recording Jaki at a defunct Greenwich Village club, I was asking him what a ‘Boston’ was because I’d read a Herbie Nichols review of Monk in the ‘40s where he mentions this rhythm. Two hours later as I walked by the piano, Jaki who was in the middle of a solo breaks into another rhythm, looks up at me and says, “That’s a Boston!”

-Michael Cuscuna

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Yesterday I visited the exhibit, Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia at the Harvard Art Museum. It was an incredibly moving experience. The exhibit was designed around these major ideas, transformations, seasonality, performance, and remembrance. The included in the exhibition was a combination of at traditional indigenous Australian art and culture and reactionary contemporary indigenous artwork. 

The exhibition was very charged and powerful. You could feel the emotion, importance in each artwork. This was by far one of the best exhibitions I’ve been to in a while, I definitely recommend visiting it if you are in the area. 

The artwork pictured: 

Photo 2: Untitled (Detail), Naata Nugurrayi, 2006

Photo 3: Hideout,  Lena Nyadbi, 2002

Photo 4: Untitled (Detail), Doreen Reid Nakamarra, 2007

Photo 5: Anwerlarr angerr (Big Yam), Emily Kam Kngwarray, 1996

Emily Kame Kngwarreye

Linear Yam Dreaming  -  1996

Oyster Bar in Central Station by Beryl Cook, 1994

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Floating Piers, Lake Iseo, Italy Now on view!

Rust Landscape. What do you see ? #rust #abstractart #westcoast #scotland #decay #elements #scotland