Email Author Kelly Klaasmeyer

2002 Stories by Kelly Klaasmeyer

• The Art of Anxiety

  published May 30, 2002

  To me, "Trembling," Francisco Ruiz de Infante's installation at the Blaffer Gallery, feels like home -- but half my living room ceiling is... More >>

• Arsenic and Old Lace

  published May 16, 2002

  Mark Flood is making pretty paintings, and that's okay. The conceptual malcontent, who has sold ad space on his canvases and had his work... More >>

• The Reluctant Spokesman

  published May 2, 2002

  William Kentridge was born white and affluent in Johannesburg, South Africa, seven years after the enactment of apartheid laws in 1948. For... More >>

• Art, Lies and Videotape

  published April 18, 2002

  In the notorious 1920 "Little Albert Study," J.B. Watson, the founding father of behavioral psychology, conditioned an 11-month-old orphan to fear... More >>

• Law of Averages

  published April 11, 2002

  On Christmas Day, 1978, Santa left a clunky machine under the tree for my dad. It looked like the bastard child of a typewriter and a portable TV... More >>

• If Walls Could Talk

  published March 28, 2002

  An American flag hangs high in John Cleary Gallery. Beneath it, press-on type proclaims, in appropriate post-September 11 patriotism, "God... More >>

• FotoFatigue

  published March 21, 2002

  FotoFest is the art world's version of the Bataan Death March. Large-scale art events always offer an overwhelming amount of work to see and... More >>

• Dead Cats

  published February 21, 2002

  Rachel Hecker is "Sad and Pissed." And don't you fucking forget it. Hecker's gallery had suggested that "Sad and Mad" -- albeit a bit like... More >>

• Stux in the South

  published February 7, 2002

  See it live and in person: Andres Serrano's Piss Christ -- Jesse Helms's favorite photograph -- is on view in Houston. I was always... More >>

• Come Together, Right Now

  published January 10, 2002

  Bill Viola's Ascension (2000) is one of those pitch-black video installations where you have to feel your way gingerly into complete... More >>

• An Introspective

  published January 3, 2002

  We all have our prejudices, and when people start talking about "transcendence," I head for the door before Shirley MacLaine and Ramtha show up.... More >>