Slog - Comments on Two First Looks and An Old Legend http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/two_first_looks_and_an_old_legend 1. Suspended over the pool at Aqua Art Miami, Leo Saul Berk's cloud made of tough plastic parts fell flat. Now I realize it's like I didn't even see it. Focused light should be listed on its label as one of its materials, because lit in a gallery, it comes alive. At Howard House (through Saturday), its blues and whites bounce against each other with a sort of lulling, pointillist rhythm. Beautiful. 2. Ellen Garvens's large, slyly staged photographs of plaster molds for prosthetic limbs present the molds ambiguously, wrapped in gauze, mounted, arranged, or rising from translucent white... Copyright 2008 Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:40:00 -0800 Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:49:50 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Boomer Hey Jen--just wanted to say how much I love your Slog postings, they're wonderful and smart.

]]> Boomer http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/two_first_looks_and_an_old_legend#c598747 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/two_first_looks_and_an_old_legend#c598747 Arts Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:05:58 -0800 Comment by Orson Beatiful art today.

BTW what's the diff between a "legend" and an "old legend"?

]]> Orson http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/two_first_looks_and_an_old_legend#c598858 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/two_first_looks_and_an_old_legend#c598858 Arts Fri, 26 Jan 2007 09:56:48 -0800 Comment by Fnarf That Mary Henry piece brings back memories of some bad 80s New Wave album covers. Not quite as frightening as Nagel, but getting there.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/two_first_looks_and_an_old_legend#c598985 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/two_first_looks_and_an_old_legend#c598985 Arts Fri, 26 Jan 2007 11:01:23 -0800 Comment by Jen Graves Orson, you're totally right. Except I guess you could say Mary has been around so long, even her legendariness is old.

Nah, not really. You're right.

]]> Jen Graves http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/two_first_looks_and_an_old_legend#c599526 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/two_first_looks_and_an_old_legend#c599526 Arts Fri, 26 Jan 2007 17:22:48 -0800 Comment by Jaq ooooooo, I gotta disagree about Leo's piece at Aqua--it was really quite stunning. We've got a photo on the aqua home page which shows the piece and is worth another look - http://aquaartmiami.com . Maybe it just depended on the time of day & level of art overload & how far your feet were in the water & how much tequila was at hand....

]]> Jaq http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/two_first_looks_and_an_old_legend#c605789 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/01/two_first_looks_and_an_old_legend#c605789 Arts Wed, 31 Jan 2007 21:49:50 -0800