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Malcolm Ryder
Dec 24, 20222 min read
The Not Male Show
Project overview Critiquing a specific legacy archetype of maleness, the Not Male Show extends beyond feminism to a more inclusive...
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Malcolm Ryder
Dec 21, 20229 min read
Shades of Gray: Photography at the Gray Loft Gallery, Dec. 2022
Arriving After turning twice up the narrow stairway, a type exactly halfway between rustic and industrial chic, one enters the Gray Loft...
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Malcolm Ryder
Dec 17, 20225 min read
Fake Deep - The Age of Intelligent Artifice
Artificial Intelligence, or A.I., rages on in the world of visual art, it’s current ability to automatically compose being the new apex...
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Malcolm Ryder
Dec 15, 20225 min read
DESTRUCTIVE CREATION: ADELINE GRAFFITI PALACE
Ghost Busters The experience of time’s passage takes place only due to the perception of change, and if the noticeable events don’t...
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Malcolm Ryder
Nov 2, 202211 min read
PHOTOGRAPHY TODAY: The End Of Genres
One of the more bizarre things that occurred in the past but that still persists is the phrase “art and photography”. For simplicity’s...
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Malcolm Ryder
Oct 17, 20224 min read
IMAGES MATTER
Oakland, CA – The Black Lives Matter movement brought Oakland back into the political foreground in a way not felt since the Women’s...
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Malcolm Ryder
Jul 7, 202215 min read
LOOKING AT PICTURES: THE EYE'S MIND
Contents: READING THE IMAGE. THE WORK DONE IN THE IMAGE. THE WORK DONE BY THE IMAGE. DESIGNING THE IMAGE. THE VIEWER AT WORK. THE WORK OF...
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Malcolm Ryder
Jul 4, 20225 min read
What The Critic Saw
Why do we think that we can know with confidence when something is or is not an "art" work? What is the unifying idea underlying our...
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Malcolm Ryder
Jun 30, 20223 min read
Seeing The Scene
Why do we bother to refer to certain photographs as "still" pictures when the individual picture is by definition a stationary object? I....
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Malcolm Ryder
Jun 30, 20224 min read
Meet the Street
The popular allure of street photography rarely wanes, regardless of time or place. Much of its power to influence audiences rides on the...
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Malcolm Ryder
Jan 1, 20222 min read
Communicating Art
Elitism in art is the enemy of my thinking, doing, and holding of art. It tries in advance to dictate what matters. We don't allow that here
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