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RIP Vern Blosum
Time Expired, 1962, MoMA, acquired, interestingly, in 1971. The name is made up, but the art and the person are real, and so is their family. Tracking down and meeting Vern Blosum was a huge treat for me, and...
The Absence Of Evidence
Short Circuit (aka Construction with J.J. Flag), c. 1958? photo: Rudy Burckhardt Errol Morris's new film about Donald Rumsfeld has me thinking a lot lately in terms of the known unknown, and the unknown unknown. As I've tried to...
RIP, Ivan Karp, And Thanks
I'll get back to the Rauschenberg thing in a bit, but it's already been too long that I haven't noted the passing of Ivan Karp. He had been an amazingly generous, interesting, and informative resource to me over the...
On Vern Blosum At MoMA
"You cannot imagine how happy I was to read your email." That was the almost-immediate reply to my request to stop by MoMA's Painting & Sculpture department to discuss Vern Blosum and to review the collection file for Time Expired,...
Vern Blosum: Famous For 25 Minutes
So, my mind is kind of blowing because Vern Blosum is in a show opening tomorrow. Blosum's work was included in some of the very first exhibitions of Pop Art in the early 1960s. His deadpan paintings of objects...
Verne Blosum Found! Or Rather, Found By Verne Blossum
You stumble upon something that Google doesn't know anything about, and you post about it, and then a while later, the other handful of people wondering about the same thing eventually email you, and you try to figure this...
What's Happening? Tracking Stars, Claes Oldenburg's 1963 Washington DC Happening
It's been a few months, and now I've been researching it so many places, I can't remember exactly where I first discovered that Claes Oldenburg did a Happening in Washington DC. And an early one, too. He was invited...
Found, Sort Of: Vern Blosum
You remember how, a couple of months ago, I could find next to nothing online about Vern Blosum, the mysterious artist whose crisp, deadpan paintings of parking meters were featured in one of the very first museum exhibitions of Pop...
Anyone Tell Me About Vern Blosum?
As I've been digging into the history of modernism and contemporary art in Washington DC, one of the most prominent events I keep coming back to is "The Popular Image" and its performance companion, the "Pop Art Festival." Organized Alice...
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