What need you, being come to sense,
But fumble in a greasy till
And add the halfpence to the pence
And prayer to shivering prayer, until
You have dried the marrow from the bone;
For men were born to pray and save:
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,
It’s with O’Leary in the grave.
Yet they were of a different kind,
The names that stilled your childish play,
They have gone about the world like wind,
But little time had they to pray
For whom the hangman’s rope was spun,
And what, God help us, could they save?
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,
It’s with O’Leary in the grave.
Was it for this the wild geese spread
The grey wing upon every tide;
For this that all that blood was shed,
For this Edward Fitzgerald died,
And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone,
All that delirium of the brave?
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,
It’s with O’Leary in the grave.
Yet could we turn the years again,
And call those exiles as they were
In all their loneliness and pain,
You’d cry, ‘Some woman’s yellow hair
Has maddened every mother’s son’:
They weighed so lightly what they gave.
But let them be, they’re dead and gone,
They’re with O’Leary in the grave.
– W. B. Yeats / September 1913
This past summer we celebrated Our Seventh Year Anniversary. September’s here again, now into fall as we continue. Welcome to the 153rd edition of Prescriptions. Here is our guide to current events in the arts.
Tobias Zielony, Shine, 2017 (detail), © VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024, Courtesy the artist and KOW, Berlin
Dance, Dance, Revolution
Against the backdrop of the ongoing Russian full-scale war in Ukraine, the participating artists negotiate dance, rhythm and sound as an emancipatory act of collective resistance. On view through October 13, 2024 at Kunsthaus Hamburg.
Cristina De Middel, An Obstacle in the Way [Una Piedra en el Camino], Journey to the center series, 2021 / Courtesy of the artist/Magnum Photos
Rencontres d’Arles 2024
Tremors and turmoil, spirits, traces, parallel readings and rereadings all constitute new perspectives underlying the 2024 edition of the Rencontres d’Arles. Photographers, artists and curators reveal their visions and stories, not least that of our humanity, by turns thwarted, in endless redefinition, resilient, but also visionary. Through September 29, 2024.
Mark Rothko, Grey, Orange on Maroon No 8, 1960, Collectie Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Aankoop 1970. © 1998 Mark Rothko, c/o Pictoright Amsterdam 2024
Beloved XL
Museum Boijmans brings together the public’s favourite works from the museum’s collection in the exhibition, a wonderful survey of the museum’s history of collecting paintings and sculptures. On view at Depot Boijmans Van Beuningen through April 13, 2025.
Eimear Walshe, ROMANTIC IRELAND / Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale / 60th Edition
The 60th International Art Exhibition, titled Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, will continue through November 24, 2024, at the Giardini and the Arsenale. Curated by Adriano Pedrosa and organised by La Biennale di Venezia.
Still picture from Floating Heart – for Orlando, The Videobook. Sigita Mikalauskaitė performing Flowers
Individual Body, Collective Body
From the Latin corpus “complex, organism,” the Italian word corpo is a generic term that identifies any type of limited portion of matter, capable of extension, divisibility, impenetrability. In Conversation with Gianna Valenti, by Chiara Causo.
Viviane Sassen, Dior, 2019 © Viviane Sassen and Stevenson (Johannesburg, Cape Town / Amsterdam)
Viviane Sassen. PHOSPHOR: Art & Fashion
The exhibition is the first large-scale retrospective of the photographer in the Netherlands, revealing over thirty years of her career and bringing together photography, collage, painting and video. Organized in collaboration with the MEP – Maison Européenne de la Photographie. On view at Foam through January 12, 2025
Bill Phelps / MOTOGRAPHIKA
MOTOGRAPHIKA
Recently released in a new series, Bill Phelps has launched MOTOGRAPHIKA, a treasure trove of vintage motorcycle marvels, shot in large format 8 x 10 cross process Polaroid analogue film and immortalized in timeless compositions and presented in signed and authenticated classic poster format.
Paul P., Untitled, 2016 / Courtesy the artist and collection of Joe Friday and Grant Jameson, Ottawa © the artist.
Jimmy DeSana & Paul P.: Ruins of Rooms
The resulting exhibition functions like a matryoshka doll, expanding our understanding of portraiture through an overlapping conversation between different generations, an ode to a lost generation. By Beatrice Sacco. Through October 20, 2024 at KW Institute for Contemporary Art.
Our 7th Year Anniversary
Recently we rounded out our seventh year with over 5,000 pages of Articles, Profiles, and Announcements in our growing archive and over 5 million visits strong. A very exciting journey it has been, indeed. With our seventh year anniversary Prescription, we continue to move forward.
