Writer-in-Residence

Tim Burton, “Batman Returns”, Video Still, 1992. Courtesy Warner Bros Pictures

When I was a little kid I was obsessed with comic books. I consumed anything super hero related with a sense of urgency. I imagined that some day I would …

Fiber Art: The Queer Kid on the Bus

by Steven Frost | Aug 5, 2010

Fiber Art: The Queer Kid on the Bus

by Steven Frost | Aug 5, 2010

Contemporary fiber artists have a lot of baggage to handle. They have so much baggage in fact that they had to knit a bigger bag to fit everything in. Fiber …

New guest blogger: Steven Frost

by Kelly Shindler | Aug 2, 2010

New guest blogger: Steven Frost

by Kelly Shindler | Aug 2, 2010

Thanks to Lincoln Hancock for this extensive chronicling of the NC Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill) art scene. Stay tuned for another post or two from him in the …

Why Here? Part 2

by Lincoln Hancock | Aug 1, 2010

Low on the southeast side of downtown Raleigh stands a nondescript grey building with a facade marked by four orange letters: LUMP. This cinderblock outpost houses the Lump gallery and …

André Leon Gray’s Eye Gumbo

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 28, 2010

One of the most striking things about the new West Building at the NC Museum of Art is its curatorial strategy. From almost any vantage point in the gallery, the …

Why Here?

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 26, 2010

What does it mean to live and work as an artist in the South? It would be foolhardy to suggest there is a single, unified answer to this question. I …

Lightness

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 22, 2010

In a lecture delivered at Harvard in 1985 (posthumously published in Six Memos for the Next Millenium), Italo Calvino describes lightness as expressive of a certain kind of possibility in …

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8LhaL6vajc] I spent yesterday with two of my oldest friends. At ten, Ben and Neill came over. We’d cleared our schedules to hang and create material for A Weavexx Yuxtapongo. …

New guest blogger: Lincoln Hancock

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 19, 2010

New guest blogger: Lincoln Hancock

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 19, 2010

Thanks to Paige Johnston for walking us through her recent travels in the Netherlands. Look out for more from her in the coming weeks. Up next is Lincoln Hancock. Lincoln …

Who’s Keeping SKOR?

by Paige K. Johnston | Jul 16, 2010

Who’s Keeping SKOR?

by Paige K. Johnston | Jul 16, 2010

Living in Chicago, there’s little chance of avoiding public art. From murals to monuments, legs to eyeballs, the city is inundated. Though I will admit to enjoying cell phone photos …

Going for the Gold(en Age)

by Paige K. Johnston | Jul 8, 2010

Going for the Gold(en Age)

by Paige K. Johnston | Jul 8, 2010

Over the past few years, I have developed a persistent desire to live and work in the Netherlands. My fantasies of Dutch relocation have been largely indulged and inflated through …

New guest blogger: Paige K. Johnston

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 5, 2010

New guest blogger: Paige K. Johnston

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 5, 2010

Many thanks to Ajay Hothi for his plethora of posts tackling the states of contemporary art and the moving image in the UK. Up next on the guest blog is …

An unlikely gift horse

by Ajay Hothi | Jul 3, 2010

An unlikely gift horse

by Ajay Hothi | Jul 3, 2010

A short post today and a follow-up, of sorts, to my earlier post Timing is Everything. It was announced on Thursday afternoon that Charles Saatchi would be gifting a substantial …

Sadly, Alice really doesn’t live here anymore

by Ajay Hothi | Jul 1, 2010

Sadly, Alice really doesn’t live here anymore

by Ajay Hothi | Jul 1, 2010

I’m new here. I should explain. At university, I wanted to be a video artist. Maybe I should have been born into another time (and matriculated to another university) because …

It lives in public

by Ajay Hothi | Jun 30, 2010

It lives in public

by Ajay Hothi | Jun 30, 2010

It is base-level arts conversation but it is the very one that I have had most in my life. Like the best conversations, everybody has an opinion, whether you are …

All things to all men

by Ajay Hothi | Jun 25, 2010

All things to all men

by Ajay Hothi | Jun 25, 2010

Over the past ten years, an interesting and forward-looking trend among contemporary art galleries in the United Kingdom has been the aim to secure a legacy beyond the general functions …

Mehrutu’s Grey Area

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 23, 2010

Mehrutu’s Grey Area

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 23, 2010

In her large, complicated paintings, Ethiopian-American artist Julie Mehretu has blended everything from historic ruins to plans for sports arenas into her rich canvases in ways that make identifying individual …

Timing is Everything

by Ajay Hothi | Jun 22, 2010

Timing is Everything

by Ajay Hothi | Jun 22, 2010

London’s Hayward Gallery re-opened to the public this past Saturday with two new exhibitions. Headlining is The Edges of the World, a solo show by the Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto, who …

New guest blogger: Ajay RS Hothi

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 21, 2010

New guest blogger: Ajay RS Hothi

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 21, 2010

Thanks to Caroline Lagnado for her plethora of terrific posts. Up next is Ajay RS Hothi. Ajay RS Hothi is a London-based documentary maker and writer. His films focus on …

Klein’s Big Leap

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 20, 2010

Klein’s Big Leap

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 20, 2010

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. is currently showing the first Yves Klein retrospective to hit the United States in nearly 30 years. Called Yves Klein: With …

The Persistence of Memory

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 18, 2010

The Persistence of Memory

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 18, 2010

With our poor economy and tough times in general, it would be natural for artists to look ahead to happier days. Like the rest of us, they are frustrated, and …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: BB6

by Ethan Hayes-Chute | Jun 17, 2010

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: BB6

by Ethan Hayes-Chute | Jun 17, 2010

Aligning smoothly with the start of Art Basel for the first time, the 6th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (BB6) opened this past week, two months later than its previous …

Dumbing Down the Art Museum

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 17, 2010

Dumbing Down the Art Museum

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 17, 2010

A popular article in Tuesday’s New York Times discusses the Brooklyn Museum’s failed efforts at drawing bigger and more serious crowds. This historic museum has tried everything from Saturday night …

Art of the Oil Spill

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 16, 2010

Art of the Oil Spill

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 16, 2010

As Gawker posted the other day, in an act of what now seems like prescience, Chicago artist Chuck Meyers painted a leaking “BP Truck” in oil. This was back in …

Looking at Contemporary Dance

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 15, 2010

Looking at Contemporary Dance

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 15, 2010

As an art form, dance is a mixture of the visual and the auditory. While we watch dancers perform aesthetic pieces onstage, we hear music meant to enhance the experience. …

Koons on your Google homepage?

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 10, 2010

Koons on your Google homepage?

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 10, 2010

Today Google unveils a new “choose your own background” feature. According to the company’s official blog, “You can choose a photo from your computer, your own Picasa Web Album or …

An Artist’s Day Job

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 7, 2010

An Artist’s Day Job

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 7, 2010

To support themselves, artists typically have day jobs. While many teach, some find other ways to make ends meet. Warhol and Hopper earned money in advertising and commercial art, while …

New guest blogger: Caroline Lagnado

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 7, 2010

New guest blogger: Caroline Lagnado

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 7, 2010

Thanks to Erin Sickler for her series of posts on and interviews with innovative artists seeking and creating solutions under trying economic circumstances. Up next is Caroline Lagnado. A native …

Pardon This Brief Commercial Interruption: Ghana Think Tank

by Erin Sickler | Jun 6, 2010

Pardon This Brief Commercial Interruption: Ghana Think Tank

by Erin Sickler | Jun 6, 2010

In 2006, Christopher Robbins, John Ewing, and Matey Odonkor came together to form Ghana Think Tank, a problem-creating project with the motto Developing the First World. Drawing from their experiences …

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Change

by Erin Sickler | Jun 3, 2010

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Change

by Erin Sickler | Jun 3, 2010

Lin + Lam (Lana Lin and Lan Thao Lam) are the current fellows at the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School University in New York. …

Writer-in-Residence

Patriarchy: Catwoman’s Scratching Post

Fiber Art: The Queer Kid on the Bus

New guest blogger: Steven Frost

Why Here? Part 2

André Leon Gray’s Eye Gumbo

Why Here?

Lightness

Thoughts on the Practice

New guest blogger: Lincoln Hancock

Who’s Keeping SKOR?

Going for the Gold(en Age)

New guest blogger: Paige K. Johnston

An unlikely gift horse

Sadly, Alice really doesn’t live here anymore

It lives in public

All things to all men

Mehrutu’s Grey Area

Timing is Everything

New guest blogger: Ajay RS Hothi

Klein’s Big Leap

The Persistence of Memory

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: BB6

Dumbing Down the Art Museum

Art of the Oil Spill

Looking at Contemporary Dance

Koons on your Google homepage?

An Artist’s Day Job

New guest blogger: Caroline Lagnado

Pardon This Brief Commercial Interruption: Ghana Think Tank

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Change

Flash Points

Flash Points

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Economies of Scale or Too Big to Fail?

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Liz Magic Laser

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Intro

New guest blogger: Erin Sickler

What’s it worth? Artist and community currencies

Mapping our way back

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