Collective Unconscious

This was my favorite show in a long time. First, laboratory glassware with the ink ghosts of crowds living in it. A whole laboratory’s worth. I used to teach at a school with a great old chemistry lab, and stripped and punched and crumbled as the whole building was, the wood cabinets and the […]

Web

In the lobby, a plexiglass box with a theater light under it, petals open. In the box, a spiderweb. That was all. Black curtains, two sets, to go through, a sign that said, “Exhibit continues behind curtain,” because it is unclear in these Chelsea galleries where an exhibit might continue and where it might be […]

Chelsea, 19th Street.

“The gallery is upstairs,” she says. It was PSAT day, thus I had a moment to flit away from school and look about. I love the PSAT even more than I did when I took it and it led me to be offered lots of money for school which I was too young and foolish […]