Author Archives: Bert Stabler

Artist Jimmy Baker and his wife, architect Jil Baker, reflect on Iraq in “True Diplomacy,” now at Western Exhibitions, relying for many of their images and objects on the proposed immense U.S. Embassy complex in Baghdad. Jimmy Baker strikes an ominous note in his statement, writing that the fortress symbolizes the developed world: “a sterile […]

It’s anyone’s guess what exploring “the domestic traumas of tradition in regression” might mean, though I imagine some kind of cannibalistic Thanksgiving. But the press-release anthropology-speak might be appropriate for “John DiCosmo and the Faces of Dinner,” centered on both the quirky mixed-media drawings and collages of New Jersey-based artist DiCosmo and on his meat-free […]

The sound in Terence Hannum’s video installation Evocation, this month’s 12 x 12 exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art, is a wall of throbbing electronic harmony and dissonance. Hannum recorded the earth-shaking dirges of the experimental metal band Sunn O))) at a recent performance and shot footage, projected here on three walls–dark, abstract scenes […]