elegies

February was a busy month with three of my regular conferences occurring between the 8th and 28th. The American Library Association conference was in Denver; the CAA: Advancing Art & Design (formerly known as College Art Association) conference was in Los Angeles; the Art Libraries Society of North America conference was in New York City. Each was good and enjoyable in the normal ways: meetings, seeing friends, visiting cities. This year, I was able to see a number of friends in the various cities beyond the normal crowd. It was really wonderful. And of course there was art to see in each city.

This arrangement was part of the Jorge Otero: Elegies exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. Three of the works are by Otero, the other three are Elegies to the Spanish Republic by Robert Motherwell. I had gone to the Bronx Museum to see the Gordon Matta-Clark: Anarchitect exhibition and was delighted to also find the Otero. The Matta-Clark show included a video taken during the making of the Conical Intersect in Paris and showing the folks walking or driving past as they watch the crazy guys cutting holes in the abandoned building near the construction site of the Centre Pompidou.