Articles by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize

What Ever Happened to the Dilettante?

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Feb 11, 2011

What Ever Happened to the Dilettante?

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Feb 11, 2011

In June, the contemporary art podcast Bad at Sports (and regular columnists on this site) featured an interview with artist Mark Dion. Dion said something in the interview that has …

Clients, Pithy Quotes, and Jenny Holzer

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Feb 7, 2011

Clients, Pithy Quotes, and Jenny Holzer

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Feb 7, 2011

Clients are the difference between design and art.    — Michael Bierut Last week I looked at two nearly identical works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Tobias Wong as a way of …

Google’s Art Project and the Uncanny Museum

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Feb 2, 2011

Google’s Art Project and the Uncanny Museum

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Feb 2, 2011

Yesterday, Google launched Art Project. Art Project brings the technology of Google Maps Street View into a handful of the world’s best art museums. Users can virtually wander through various …

Art, Design, and Clocks

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Feb 1, 2011

Art, Design, and Clocks

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Feb 1, 2011

My latest Internet obsession is Quora.com. Quora describes itself as “a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.” It’s like Yahoo …
ArtPrize 2009, Grand Rapids, MI. Photo courtesy of Brian Kelly.

ArtPrize: Reflecting On and Refining an Open Art Competition

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | May 14, 2010

ArtPrize: Reflecting On and Refining an Open Art Competition

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | May 14, 2010

Last August, I wrote a post on this blog called ArtPrize: An Experiment in Decentralized Curation and Competition. At that time, the team I work with was a month away …

Flash Points

Mythic Environments: Robert Smithson and Eames Demetrios

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Nov 16, 2009

Flash Points

Mythic Environments: Robert Smithson and Eames Demetrios

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Nov 16, 2009

When I first saw that this site’s new Flash Points topic was Art and the Environment, I immediately thought of two artists: Robert Smithson and Eames Demetrios. They are not …

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

ArtPrize: An Experiment in Decentralized Curation and Competition

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Aug 27, 2009

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

ArtPrize: An Experiment in Decentralized Curation and Competition

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Aug 27, 2009

Maya Lin’s (Season One) “Ecliptic” in Rosa Parks Circle, Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Production still from the Art:21 episode, Identity, © Art21, Inc. 2001.) There’s been a fair bit of talk …