Tag Archives: Exhibitions
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Scott Yoell’s “Tsunami”
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Scott Yoell’s “Tsunami”
When I interview an artist for radio format, I go in hoping for interesting and honest statements about his/her work and ideas, because I know that in the editing suite, …
On View Now
On View Now: Piotr Uklański’s “Discharge!”
On View Now
On View Now: Piotr Uklański’s “Discharge!”
In the main gallery of Discharge!, Piotr Uklański’s current show at Gagosian Gallery, fourteen vibrantly colored large-scale paintings hang unusually close together on walls covered in equally dynamic wallpaper. The …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment: From My Institution to Yours
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment: From My Institution to Yours
In the spring of every year, the Master of Public Art Studies: Art/Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program at the University of Southern California, one of two graduate programs …
Letter from London
Letter from London | Porn, Porn Everywhere: Analog at Riflemaker Gallery.
Letter from London
Letter from London | Porn, Porn Everywhere: Analog at Riflemaker Gallery.
In this second and last guest blog post, Kerim Aytac fills in for our hero Ben Street this month. — Ed. Looking at Richard Nicholson’s elegiac contribution to the Analog …
Flash Points
Call For Artists: Creative Limitations
Flash Points
Call For Artists: Creative Limitations
The artist-gallery relationship presents a curious contradiction. That is, there is the notion that a gallery representing contemporary artwork has a certain responsibility for promoting challenging and inspiring ideas, whereas, …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Terry O’Neill Award Show at Hotshoe Gallery
Letter from London
Letter from London: Terry O’Neill Award Show at Hotshoe Gallery
Guest blogger Kerim Aytac is filling in for regular columnist Ben Street this month while he makes his millions. — Ed. It’s hard to see the work of emerging photographers …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Top 10 Chicago Art Events in 2010
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Top 10 Chicago Art Events in 2010
Meg Onli and Claudine Ise’s list of the ten best–or at least most interesting–events in Chicago art in 2010. 1. Best city-wide, sustained, multi-platform discussion of a single topic in …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with David Wojnarowicz (and Not Teaching with the Smithsonian)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with David Wojnarowicz (and Not Teaching with the Smithsonian)
In light of the recent debacle at the Smithsonian involving the removal of David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly, I thought it might make sense to suggest some ways …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hell Is Other People
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hell Is Other People
It is a truth universally acknowledged that artists make the best curators. Mark Wallinger’s exhibition, The Russian Linesman at the Hayward Gallery last March, was a proposal about what creative …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Whippet Good! M.A. Peers at the Pomona College Museum of Art
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Whippet Good! M.A. Peers at the Pomona College Museum of Art
During last week’s panel discussion in conjunction with M.A. Peers‘s exhibition at the Pomona College Museum of Art, Peers recalled a pivotal moment during her graduate studies. Painter Linda Day told her …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Carin Kuoni of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Carin Kuoni of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
For six years, Carin Kuoni has been director of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School in New York City. I wanted to pose my …
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Musée des Beaux-Arts Goes Loco for Local
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Musée des Beaux-Arts Goes Loco for Local
In 1913, Marcel Duchamp created a ruckus with an assembled inverted bicycle wheel mounted on a stool. The provocateur stirred controversy soon after with more found objects, most famously a …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Feathers, Magic Mushrooms and Bicycle Tours
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Feathers, Magic Mushrooms and Bicycle Tours
Bundle up, Berlin: winter is almost here, and it might be a long one, again. If you haven’t fallen prey to the sniffling, the sneezing, the nose-blowing and coughing, germ-spreading …
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Time of Your Life
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Time of Your Life
Christian Marclay’s The Clock (now on show at White Cube, Mason’s Yard) is a twenty-four hour long film which, unlike other very long art films like Douglas Gordon’s Twenty-Four Hour …
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