3/15/18 review of Museo de las Americas show Pachucos y Sirenas

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the 2018 Museo de las Americas show Pachucos y Sirenas.

The thread gives a summary of the show. It discusses the show's exploration of the Chicanx movement's use of the Pachuco and Pachuca style, including low rider cars and zoot suits, to forge their identity, how that identity was met with violent backlash, but how it also led to strength, confidence, and organizing for rights. It discusses and gives pictures of work by Kenneth Castillo, Jerry Vigil, Carlos Fresquez, Josiah Lopez, Daniel Salazar, Antonia Fernandez, and Justin Favela.

The tweets in some of my threads have been twisted out of chronological order by Twitter's platform. This thread's coherency is moderately affected. My apologies.

2/23/18 review of Denver Art Museum show Degas: A Passion for Perfection

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Denver Art Museum's show Degas: A Passion for Perfection.

The thread gives a summary of and some background on the show. It gives a lot of pictures from the show, while discussing Degas's influences, techniques, subject matter, media, and development as an artist, as well as my own experiences with and feelings about Degas's work.

The tweets in some of my threads have been twisted out of chronological order on Twitter's platform. This thread's coherency is slightly affected. My apologies.

2/6/18 open letter to MCA Denver and MOCA Los Angeles about Arthur Jafa

(Image source: https://www.moca.org/exhibition/arthur-jafa-love-is-the-message-the-message-is-death)

Here is the link to a Twitter thread that is a kind of "open letter" to both the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

The thread relates to Arthur Jafa's video Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death, which both MCA Denver and MOCA Los Angeles screened. The "open letter" was mostly to ask if any discussions had been held comparing Jafa's work with the work of Stan Brakhage and Mickalene Thomas, and my reasons for asking.

As you'll notice in the thread, this led to a brief email interaction between myself and one of MCA Denver's curator. The interaction didn't go anywhere. And it wasn't meant to. I was hoping to see what sort of conversations I might generate directly via Twitter with folks. But no conversations were generated, unfortunately.

2/7/18 review of three solo shows at MCA Denver

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of three solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.

The three shows are: Love Is the Message, the Message Is Death, by Arthur Jafa; Honestly Lying, by Diego Rodriguez-Warner; and Shadows of Men, by Cleon Peterson.

The thread gives a summary and some background and technical discussion on each show. It also gives a good amount of pictures from each show.

1/9/18 review of Denver Art Museum show Stampede: Animals in Art

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Denver Art Museum show Stampede: Animals in Art.

The thread gives a summary of the show. The thread discusses some of the show's themes. And it gives some pictures and descriptions of work by artists such as Christian Hahn, Kim Dingle, Wenling Chen, Pia Stadtbaumer, Lin Tianmiao, Kiki Smith, Enrique Martinez Celaya, Georgia O'Keefe, Daniel Richter, Duke Beardsley, Inka Essenhigh, Rick Bartow, Deborah Butterfield, and E-Line Media.

Some of my threads have been twisted out of chronological order by Twitter's platform. This has a slight effect on the coherency of this thread. My apologies.

Here is the link to the Denver Art Museum's web page for the show.

10/29/17 review of Denver Art Museum show Her Paris

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Denver Art Museum's exhibition Her Paris: Women Artists and the Age of Impressionism.

The thread gives a bit of background on the show, which was curated by Laurence Madeline. It discusses how the show illustrates women artists' struggles for equality, but how it also lets the women's work speak for itself. It discusses how the work shows some individual artists' development. It gives a lot of pictures of and discusses work by artists like Mary Cassatt, Anna Elizabeth Krumpke, Cecilia Beaux, Marie Bashkirtseff, Paula Modersohn-Becker, Marie Bracquemond, Berthe Morisot, Edma Morisot Pontillon.

Here is the link to the Denver Art Museum's web page for the show.

10/21/17 review of Museo de las Americas show Las (H)adas

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Museo de las Americas group show Las (H)adas.

The exhibition was a show of work about Latinas by five Colorado Latina artists. The thread gives a lot of pictures and discusses the show's themes, such as spiritual strength, self-representation, solidarity, and protection. The thread shows pictures of and discusses work by Jessica Luna, Meggan DeAnza, and the Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence.

Here is the link to the website for the Museo de las Americas in Denver, Colorado.

10/20/17 review of MoMA panel on Authority, Appropriation, and the Democratic Imagination

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Museum of Modern Art's 2017 panel on Authority, Appropriation, and the Democratic Imagination.

The moderator was Glenn Lowry, and the panelists were Alondra Nelson, Homi Bhabha, and Charles Taylor. The thread discussed some of the panel's themes, like cultural appropriation in the arts, authority over one's experiences, democracy and voice, creating convergent spaces in social media, the work of Anna Deavere Smith, giving people a sense of efficacy and authority, and the civic role of museums.

Here is the link to the website for the Museum of Modern Art.

9/23/17 review of Denver Art Museum shows Mi Tierra and Common Ground

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of two 2017 shows at the Denver Art Museum -- Mi Tierra: Contemporary Artists Explore Place; and Common Ground: Photographs by Fazal Sheikh, 1989-2013.

The thread discusses and gives a lot of pictures of work by artists including Daisy Quezada, Jaime Carrejo, Ana Teresa Fernandez, Dmitri Obergfell, and Fazal Sheikh. The thread also gives links to the Denver Art Museum's web pages for both shows. Both shows were great. So its worth checking out the web pages and the featured artists.

6/25/17 review of Denver Art Museum show The Western: An Epic in Art and Film

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Denver Art Museum exhibition The Western: An Epic in Art and Film.

The thread gives a summary of and some context on the exhibit. It discusses and gives pictures of work by artists including Kent Monkman, D.H. Koerner, Andy Warhol, and Frederic Remington. The thread actually has a lot of discussion of Remington's works. The thread criticizes the show for being very uneven and for taking too many Western themes at face value. It discusses some interesting dialogues between film clips and other works of art. It also compares the show to other shows and other works. I probably went a little overboard in the comparisons.

Here is the link to the Denver Art Museum's web page for this show.

1/15/17 review of a trip to the J. Paul Getty Museum

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of a 2017 trip to the J. Paul Getty Museum.

The thread gives a lot of pictures. It discusses the shows I went to see: The Art of Alchemy, Bouchardon: Royal Artist of the Enlightenment, and Breaking News: Turning the Lens on Mass Media.

Here is the link to the Getty's web page for The Art of Alchemy.

Here is the link to the Getty's web page for Bouchardon.

Here is the link to the Getty's web page for Breaking News.

1/15/17 review of LACMA show Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of LACMA's 2017 show Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time.

This was a show of the works of Pablo Picasso and Diego Rivera. The thread gives some background on the show. It also discusses some new things I learned about Picasso and Rivera from the show.

Here is the link to LACMA's web page for Picasso and Rivera: Conversations Across Time.

5/1/16 review of MCA Denver talk with Brian Bress

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of a 2016 talk with Brian Bress at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.

The thread gives some background on Brian Bress and his 2016 MCA Denver show. It discusses some points Bress made about his family life, his artistic development, and his newer projects.

Here is the link to the MCA Denver's website.

2/29/16 review of Museo de las Americas show Detention Nation

(Image source: http://museo.org/exhibition/past-exhibitions/)

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the 2016 Museo de las Americas show Detention Nation, which showcased the work of the art collective Sin Huellas.

The thread discusses the background of the show, which deals with immigration and detention in the United States. The thread discusses and shows pictures of a lot of the work. It also gives a link to the Museo de las Americas website.

Here is the link to the website for the Sin Huellas Collective.

8/30/15 review of Castiglione exhibit at Denver Art Museum

(Image source: https://denverartmuseum.org/exhibitions/castiglione-lost-genius)

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of Castiglione: Lost Genius, the exhibition of masterworks on paper from the Royal Collection that showed at the Denver Art Museum in 2015.

This is actually a strange thread, as I addressed it to Arts and Entertainment reporter Ray Rinaldi, after he'd written a review of the show for the Denver Post. The thread is brief. But it gives a few photos and discusses a couple elements of Castiglione's work that I like.

Here is the link to the Denver Art Museum's web page for the Castiglione show.

Here is the link to Rinaldi's article on the show for the Denver Post.

5/17/15 review of MCA Denver's Thief Among Thieves and Kim Dorland exhibits

(Image source: https://mcadenver.org/exhibitions/thief-among-thieves)

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the Thief Among Thieves and Kim Dorland exhibits at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver.

My Twitter thread review gives some details on the shows. It discusses my then-budding interest in the uses of and emphasis on technique in contemporary art. It discusses the work of Shannon Ebner but doesn't show photographs. It gives photos of the works of Zach Reini, Raqib Shaw, Matthew Brandt, Amber Cobb, Amanda Ross-Ho, Ed Fornieles, and Kim Dorland.

Here is the link to the MCA Denver's page for the Thief Among Thieves exhibit.

Here is the link to the MCA Denver's page for the Kim Dorland exhibit.

3/3/13 review of MCA Denver shows by Karen Kilimnik and Patti Hallock

(Image: Karen Kilimnik work at MCA Denver)

Here is my March 3, 2013, Twitter thread about two solo shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver: Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik's World of Ballet and Theatre, and Patti Hallock: West Is Here.

Unlike my later Twitter reviews, this review was not posted as one thread. Instead, I posted each tweet separately.

The tweets are below for your convenience.

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Tweet 1. Today I went to the @mcadenver Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. A nice museum right on the edge of Downtown Denver.

T2. At @mcadenver I went to the exhibits of work by @pattihallock & Karen Kilimnik. I think today was the last day of Hallock's exhibit.

T3. Karen Kilimnik's work is on at @mcadenver through late June. The work, drawings, paintings, and video, focuses on the ballet.

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As you can see, this is a pretty simplistic review. But I am pretty sure it's my first review of a show at the MCA Denver.

My first Twitter reaction to the MCA Denver was to the tweet below, which links to a video tribute to Jake Adam York. The MCA Denver posted this tweet on January 27, 2013.

While my response was genuine and respectful, I don't think it was as somber as the occasion called for.

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MCA Denver. A video tribute to our friend Jake Adam York. The best speaker on bourbon, bbq or poetry there ever was or will be.

Me. @mcadenver Awesome. The "perfect mint julep" speech was great.

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Here is the link to info on the MCA Denver's show Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik's World of Ballet and Theatre.

Here is the link to info on the MCA Denver's show Patti Hallock: West Is Here.

Here is the link to the MCA Denver's memorial of Jake Adam York.

3/22/15 review of The Art Books of Henri Matisse at the Bechtler Museum

(Image: The Knife Thrower, by Henri Matisse, via the Bechtler Museum)

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the 2015 exhibition The Art Books of Henri Matisse at the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art.

My thread discusses how I went to the Bechtler's show partly to see Matisse's collage book Jazz, since I love and make collage. But the thread also shows pictures of and discusses Matisse's illustrations of Mallarme's poetry, the story of Pasiphae (and my copy of an illustration from that work), and some comparisons to other artists.

Here is the link to the Bechtler's info on their show The Art Books of Henri Matisse.

3/22/15 review of Halston & Warhol exhibit at The Mint Museum

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the 2015 show Halston & Warhol: Silver & Suede at The Mint Museum in Charlotte, North Carolina.

This exhibit showed the parallel careers of Andy Warhol and Ray Halston Frowick. My thread discussed how Halston was the real star of this show. It also discusses some of the interactive stuff at the show, including a drawing station, where I made a drawing of some Halston fashions that I also posted to this thread.

Here is the link to info the Mint's show Halston & Warhol: Silver & Suede.

12/20/14 review of Hello Kitty Exhibit at Japanese American National Museum

Here is the link to my Twitter thread review of the 2014 exhibition Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty, at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles.

There was so much great stuff to see at the show! My thread has a lot of pictures, including of things like Pullip dolls, Hello Kitty motor oil, backpacks, roller skates, charms from regions of Japan, fashions from America's Next Top Model, and fine art works by folks like Junko Mizuno and Julia Sh.

Here is the link to the JANM's Hello! exhibition.