Articles by Tricia Van Eck

Poetry, Prose, and Pamphlet

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 21, 2011

Poetry, Prose, and Pamphlet

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 21, 2011

Recently, I visited three shows– September 11, Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennale), and Creative Time’s Living As Form – all of which I highly recommend. The shows were a treasure trove …

Money/Market

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 20, 2011

Money/Market

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 20, 2011

Let’s face it. Occupy Wall Street, and just about everything else, is about money – who has it and who doesn’t – and how the market can help or hurt …

What Is To Be Done?* Conversations, Commerce, and Collaborations

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 17, 2011

What Is To Be Done?* Conversations, Commerce, and Collaborations

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 17, 2011

Canceled: Exhibiting Experimental Art in China, presented at The Smart Museum of Art in Chicago in 2000, was a metaphorical representation of It’s Me, a 1998 Chinese experimental art exhibition that was …

Happiness as an Aesthetic Strategy

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 12, 2011

Happiness as an Aesthetic Strategy

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 12, 2011

After 22 years of Richard M. Daley, the longest-serving mayor in Chicago’s history, our city has a new mayor, Rahm Emanuel. While artists often greet new politicians with a screed …

Encounters with Generosity, Cooperation, and Community

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 10, 2011

Encounters with Generosity, Cooperation, and Community

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 10, 2011

The unpredictable and often ephemeral encounters that occur when art, community, audience, and ideas intersect are what excite me most about working with artists. For my last project at the …