Upcoming Exhibitions

I was inspired by Heb's posting on Dali to write about an exhibition I'm looking forward to, Slideshow at the BMA. Kodak announced recently they will no longer be manufacturing slide projectors, so to see artists who have created works via a slideshow will be particularly pleasing (or Luddite, Jeff!). I'm especially excited because Nan Goldin's "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" is one of the exhibits. Goldin is one of my favorite artists. She's lumped into that late seventies feminist school that includes Cindy Sherman and Laurie Simmons, but I don't regard her as a feminist. Humanist, perhaps--her photographs of her friends and lovers over the years look like garden-variety snapshots, but that's because she makes the spontaneous somehow look easy, with perfect framing and lighting. I've only seen maybe one or two of her photographys up close, and I'm thinking they were part of a Whitney exhibit a few years ago. Anyway, I strongly recommend that you go. Or, in you happen to be in Charm City, give me a call and we'll go together.