Carol Diehl's Art Vent

The garden at the Writer’s Villa , Los Angeles I can’t believe I’m sitting here in the SoCal sun, listening to the trickle of water in the f...

This is an idea that all art schools should adopt: a mock jury, so that students can see what happens when experts are alone with images of ...

Anne Truit, First , 1961. Latex on wood, 44 1/4 x 17 3/4 x 7 in. The Baltimore Museum of Art: Gift of the artist, Washington, DC. Artwork © ...

The art world keeps us perpetual children in that we never lose that “back-to-school” feeling as we look forward to September’s first openin...

Why think? Adding to my collection of statements about art that say absolutely nothing, my new idea is to gather enough so that readers can ...

Arthur Dove, Me and the Moon, 1937 , wax and emulsion on canvas, 18 x 26", Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. As usual, the comments...

Christmas lights, Great Barrington, MA, December 2008 "What the cynics fail to understand, is that the ground has shifted beneath th...

Bruce Nauman, Double Poke in the Eye II , 1985, neon construction, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Mo. My post " Impene...

“The rainbow I see is not the rainbow you see”— Olafur Eliasson . My rants about museum wall text and artists' statements come from a s...

Now Benign Girl has matched fashion visuals with my selection of quotes from the Whitney Biennial p.r. --an example of true blogospherica...

The dialogue goes on in the comments on Catherine Spaeth’s post entitled "Being at Ease with Difficulty" where she takes issue wi...

On his TIME magazine blog , culture critic Richard Lacayo writes this in response to my Tuesday post , which he found “funny/depressing”: Wh...

Trippy as the Whitney's prose is ( see 3/28 post ), I’m beginning to see that it opens up interesting linguistic possibilities in terms ...

Random quotes from the publicity information about the artists in the Whitney Biennial : …It is the problematizing of expectations and ...

The installation at the Tate Modern (below), Doris Salcedo’s Shibboleth provides an excellent example of rhetoric standing in for, or justi...

Richard Serra from a video interview at MoMA on NewArtTV : “There isn’t any big paradigm shift. What happens is work comes out of work, an...

It’s always gratifying to have one’s beliefs confirmed, especially by the likes of Jasper Johns . Following yesterday’s post and comments ab...

Visiting with 25 or so artists last week at the Vermont Studio Center , I found that part of my job there--besides eating as much bread, but...