Feel for Steel

Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • Artistic Antidote For a Pandemic

    This about sums up much of 2021 WeatherBy: Claudia Rankine On a scrap of paper in the archive is writtenI have forgotten my umbrella. Turns outin a pandemic everyone, not just the philosopher,is without. We scramble in the drought of informationheld back by inside traders. Drop by drop. Facecovering? No, yes. Social distancing? Six feetunder…

  • Pandemic update

    It’s been 2 years since I’ve had time to contribute thoughts and images to this blog. Time has been spent on tasks and obligations, and now we’re in a NEW time of tremendous upheaval and uncertainty, unlike anything we’ve ever known. My projects and goals have been divided up, stymied, negotiated away or forgotten. I…

  • Belkis Ayón at el Museo del Barrio (2017)

    Sorry I missed this exhibit. In 2017 El Museo del Barrio ( NYC) featured: NKAME: A Retrospective of Cuban Printmaker Belkis Ayón. Description from Museo del Barrio, Christina Vives, curator: Belkis Ayón (Havana, 1967 – 1999) died at the age of thirty-two, leaving behind a body of work of considerable importance for the history of contemporary…

  • Doris Salcedo

    FROM WHITE CUBE: Doris Salcedo makes sculptures and installations that function as political and mental archaeology, using domestic materials charged with significance and suffused with meanings accumulated over years of use in everyday life. Saucedo often takes specific historical events as her point of departure, conveying burdens and conflicts with precise and economical means. Text…

  • Jan Razauskas “Gigantic Brain”

    “Gigantic Brain” features new mono prints and paintings by Sophie Grant and Jan Razauskas (Baltimore Artist and friend). Curated by Natalee Cayton and Amanda Turner Pohan. Opening January 12, 7-9 pm, through February 11, 2018. From press release: In the paintings by Razauskas, color fields appear to be caught in tectonic shift. In the charged moments where…

  • Anne Truitt at the National Gallery till April 1, 2018

      . From the National Gallery website: “Anne Truitt was one of the leading figures associated with minimalism, the sculptural tendency that emerged in the 1960s featuring pared-down geometric shapes scaled to the viewer’s body and placed directly on the floor. Born in Baltimore in 1921, Truitt grew up in Easton, a town on Maryland’s…

  • Stephanie Dinkins

    This is why it’s so important to participate in “artists residencies.” I met Stephanie at The Santa Fe Art Institute (2007?) and we’ve been in touch off and on since. She visited Baltimore yesterday to present her thoughts and research into “artificial intelligence” and the questions it poses regarding race and gender as it evolves…

  • Christian Baumgartner – Printmaker

    Beautiful monumental black and white woodcuts by Christiane Baumgartner, images translated into the language of “making,” lost in the time it takes to enter a lyrical world. Can’t get enough of this “time.” artinprint.org-Art_in_Print_1-1 Christiane Baumgartner

  • Lee Bontecou 1931

    a classic photo-the combination of textiles with steel knocks me out

  • Eva Hesse 1936-1970

    fearless, essential, obsessional forms, focused, experimental. Beauty

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