The Chronicle of Artistic Failure in America

To preserve and collate a small part of local (Minnesota) art history for purposes of research and novelty, I offer here a live-link personal online database of some of the more than 180 pieces of arts writing I’ve completed in the past decade-plus (in order from newest to oldest).

2006

“Adjust Your Sails, Minnesota Artists,” mnartists.org. November 21, 2006

“Where Do Artists Come From?” mnartists.org. October 27, 2006

“One and One and One Is Three: An Artists Come-Together Manifesto,” mnartists.org. September 7, 2006

“Don’t Blame Yourself,” mnartists.org. July 10, 2006

“Essential Services for Aging Artists,” (chief writer/editor, project leader) Heinz School of Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2006

“American Dream? The Whitney Biennial,” mnartists.org. April 26, 2006

“Is Everybody an Outsider?” mnartists.org. April 15, 2006

2005

“Taking Leave,” mnartists.org. December 13, 2005

Too Much of Everything Means Not Enough of Anything, Part 2,” mnartists.org. October 4, 2005

“Too Much of Everything Means Not Enough of Anything, Part 1,” mnartists.org. September 13, 2005

“Talking It Up and Taking It Down,” mnartists.org. August 3, 2005

“What Is a Minnesota Artist?” mnartists.org. June 12, 2005

“A Spot on the Globe,” mnartists.org. March 17, 2005

“Carolyn Swiszcz at Gallery Co,” Art in America. March, 2005

“Where Angels Fear to Tread: Doug Padilla at Gallery Co,” mnartists.org. February 19, 2005

“Old Eagle Eyes Is Back,” mnartists.org. February 5, 2005

2004

“Seeing the Light,” mnartists.org. December 31, 2004

“The Doomed Artist, Part 3,” mnartists.org. November 12, 2004

“(Studio Visit: Paul Shambroom) How Does Democracy Look?” Art Papers. November/December, 2004

“Where Have You Gone, Pablo Picasso?” mnartists.org. September 29, 2004

“Notes from the Lunatic Fringe,” mnartists.org. August 21, 2004

“Not Meeting Expectations: MCAD/McKnight Fellowship Show,” mnartists.org. August 2, 2004

“The Doomed Artist, Part 2,” mnartists.org. July 22, 2004

“Transfigured Dreck: Liz Miller,” mnartists.org. June 19, 2004

“The Doomed Artist, Part 1,” mnartists.org. June 25, 2004

“Alec Soth… Is Now Wide Awake in Minneapolis,” mnartists.org. May 8, 2004

“A Picture Is Worth 5,000 Years,” Rake Magazine. May, 2004

“The Slow Train to the Big Show,” mnartists.org. April 25, 2004

“The Whitney Looks to the Interior,” mnartists.org. April 21, 2004

“Lynn Geesaman at Thomas Barry,” Art in America. April, 2004

“Why I Love Art and Continue to Write about It (Despite It All),” mnartists.org. March 23, 2004

“Art Review: Phipps Center,” mnartists.org. March 16, 2004

“Fall of the Legend,” Orange County Weekly. February 26, 2004

“Ice Palace as Civic Experiment and Architecture: Some Takes,” mnartists.org. February 16, 2004

“Review: In Search of the Perfectly Realized Image,” mnartists.org. February 2, 2004

“The Hollywood Art Critic: Part 2,” mnartists.org. January 31, 2004

“Le Rossmor est morte; Vive le Rossmor!: Part 2,” mnartists.org. January 15, 2004

“Le Rossmor est morte; Vive le Rossmor!: Part 1,” mnartists.org. January 15, 2004

2003

“Should I Wear the Red Shirt, or the Blue One Again?,” mnartists.org. December 11, 2003

“Lourdes Cue at Franklin Art Works,” Art in America. December, 2003

“Alec Soth’s Manipulating Eye,” InterReview.org. Winter, 2003

“Connaughty’s Choice,” City Pages. November 26, 2003

“A Space on This Wall Could Cost You $800,” City Pages. November 12, 2003

“Featured Artist: Piotr Szyhalski,“ mnartists.org. November 10, 2003

“What Vincent Van Gogh Means to Us Today,“ mnartists.org. October 23, 2003

“Fear, Honor, Obey,” City Pages. October 22, 2003

“Art Review: ‘Small in a Big World’ — Stacey Davidson,” mnartists.org. October 22, 2003

“Art Review: ‘Token Male,’” mnartists.org. September 30, 2003

“One of the Great Ones,” City Pages. September 10, 2003

“The Hollywood Art Critic, Part 1,” mnartists.org. August 29, 2003

“How I Became, of All Things, an Art Critic,” mnartists.org. August 2, 2003

“Me, Myself, and I,” City Pages. July 23, 2003

“Crossing the Channel with Three Artists and a Critic,” mnartists.org. July 21, 2003

“Art Review: Focus Group; Open Forum: Encampment at Soap Factory,” mnartists.org. July 19, 2003

“Melancholy and the Infinite Sadness,” City Pages. July 2, 2003

“Not for Sale: The Temporary Mural,” Rake Magazine. June 27, 2003

“The Outsiders,” City Pages. May 14, 2003

“Too Much Skin?,” mnartists.org. May 10, 2003

“…But I Know What I Like: ‘Grotto’ at MIA,” mnartists.org. March 10, 2003

“Sexual Reproduction,” City Pages. February 12, 2003

“Book of Life,” City Pages. February 5, 2003

“Review: ‘8 x 2: Curators Pick Artists,‘” mnartists.org. January 13, 2003

2002

“Once Upon a Time in America,” City Pages. December 25, 2002

“Joe Geshick at Horst Galleries,“ mnartists.org. December 16, 2002

“Nature Boy,” City Pages. November 13, 2002

“On Arts Writing,” mnartists.org. October 25, 2002

“Baby Please Don’t Go,” City Pages. September 11, 2002

“Wade in the Water,” City Pages. August 14, 2002

“The Real Thing,” City Pages. June 19, 2002

“Jean Humke,” mnartists.org. June 14, 2002

“The Bombing Starts in Five Minutes,” City Pages. June 12, 2002

“Now Voyager,” mnartists.org. May 15, 2002

“Live Nude Girls,” City Pages. April 17, 2002

“Only Masochists Need Apply,” City Pages. March 13, 2002

“Erik Farseth: A History of the Zine Movement,” mnartists.org. March 5, 2002

“The Best Things in Life Aren’t Free,” City Pages. February 13, 2002

2001

“High-Fiber Diet,” City Pages. November 28, 2001

“En Gaard,” City Pages. October 31, 2001

“Earth, Wind, & Fire,” City Pages. October 17, 2001

“Mama Don’t Preach,” City Pages. August 22, 2001

“Wormley’s Black Period,” City Pages. August 15, 2001

“The Canvasser,” City Pages. July 18, 2001

“Animal Husbandry,” City Pages. June 20, 2001

“Room with a View,” City Pages. May 30, 2001

“The Road Warrior,” City Pages. May 23, 2001

“The Sauna School,” City Pages. April 25, 2001

“Cold Comfort,” City Pages. March 28, 2001

“Book of Days,” City Pages. March 14, 2001

“Prefablandscapelite,” City Pages. February 21, 2001

2000

“The Beautiful Show,” City Pages. November 29, 2000

“The Political Portrait,” City Pages. November 8, 2000

“Artful Dodgers,” City Pages. October 18, 2000

“The Outsiders,” City Pages. September 20, 2000

“Off the Wall,” City Pages. August 9, 2000

“Follicular Follies,” City Pages. July 26, 2000

“Art of the State,” City Pages. June 28, 2000

“Open Shutters,” City Pages. June 7, 2000

“Control Group,” City Pages. May 10, 2000

“Get Real,” City Pages. April 5, 2000

“There Goes the Neighborhood,” City Pages. March 22, 2000

“Success, on a Small Scale,” City Pages. February 23, 2000

1999

“Mississippi Masala,” City Pages. September 29, 1999

“The More the Merrier,” City Pages. August 25, 1999

“Birth of the New,” City Pages. August 11, 1999

“Public Image Limited,” City Pages. July 7, 1999

“A Fine Day for Pressing Pulp,” City Pages. June 16, 1999

“Seeing Red,” City Pages. April 28, 1999

“Pictures from an Exhibition,” City Pages. March 17, 1999

“The Big Picture,” City Pages. February 24, 1999

“Paint It Black,” City Pages. January 20, 1999

1998

“And Take Your Canvas With You!,” City Pages. November 11, 1998

“Home Is Where the Art Is,” City Pages. November 11, 1998

“I Am the Cosmos,” City Pages. September 2, 1998