Articles of ‘Jimmie Durham’

Kettle’s Whistle. Hardly the Way

Kettle’s Whistle. Hardly the Way

By Michele Robecchi
From 1972 to 1981, Jimmie Durham didn’t show any art publicly. This wasn’t due to inertia or lack of inspiration, but to an interest in activism that led him to enroll as a worker in the American Indian Movement (AIM), the Native American human and civil rights advocacy group founded in [...]



A Show for a Forgotten Faith, Menil Collection, Houston

 
June 27th - September 21st, 2008
By Dinorah Pérez-Rementería
 At a certain point in our lives, some of us need some kind of inspiration to keep going. We may start doing exercises every morning, spend a fortune on books that will never be read, or unsuccessfully try to translate our feelings into words. One gets lost in [...]