Beyond Metaphor: On Prose by Chris Campanioni & Elizabeth Powell

By Kristina Marie Darling

MAR 2019 | Books

In his book The Dialogic Imagination, M. M. Bakhtin observes that “the poetic symbol presupposes the unity of a voice with which it is identical, and presupposes that such a voice is completely alone within its own discourse.

Brandon Ndife: MY ZONE

By Avram C. Alpert

JUNE 2020 | ArtSeen

Even as it feels like a representation for the mass decay we experience, it is also, if only accidentally, a preservation of a time when decay still felt like a metaphor or imaginative exercise.

BARRY FLANAGAN:
The Hare is Metaphor

By Tom McGlynn

JUNE 2018 | ArtSeen

The question of poise comes up in different ways when viewing Barry Flanagan’s survey at Paul Kasmin Gallery: Strictly sculptural poise (from the ground to the plinth) but also conceptual poise, the balancing act that an artist needs to sometime effect to get their point across.

I Run My Hand Over the Race

By Taney Roniger

JUNE 2020 | Critics Page

The words in my title belong to Robert Irwin. I came across them years ago in Lawrence Weschler’s much-loved book of dialogues with the artist, and since then they’ve become something of a personal shibboleth. Referring to his technique for placing bets at the track (a second vocation in which he enjoyed great success), Irwin relayed that, after carefully studying the statistics for each horse, he would forget all the facts, close his eyes, and “run his hand over the race.” I don’t think I’ve encountered a better metaphor for tacit thinking: the kind of thinking we do unconsciously, without language, with and through our bodies.