“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived.” -Henry David Thoreau “The better part of one’s life consists of
“Of the curators, I admired Katherine Dreier enormously, with her exhibitions and activities, because she, more than any other collector or impresario I knew, felt she could facilitate what [the artists] actually wanted to do to the greatest extent possible. …”[Katherine Dreier] didn’t have other rich people on her board. She had Man Ray, and
A billiant little museum – Dundee Contemporary Art – had an exhibit of work by Alex frost when I was there, recently – it has really has played into some new thoughts I have been having.
Speaking of Creative Time… Austrian artist Erwin Redl was another of their artists, also exhibited by ACE gallery in Los Angeles. I first saw his work at the Exstacy exhibit at the Geffen Contemporary site of the MOCA, Los Angeles. This exhibit (in 2005) was also my first glimps of Takashi Murakami. Unfortunatly, Erwin is
union black read more online “Ofili started his series of red, black and green paintings in 2000 and brought them together in an imaginative tour de force in the British Pavillion, at the 2003 Venice Biennale. The artist collaborated once again with David Adjaye to create an immersive sensory experience. The paintings tell a story
Seriously my favorite curating I have seen in the last 10 years was the exhibit In The Making… at the Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, which I saw last Summer in Berlin. Although I couldn’t find installation images to share – the main reason why I loved it so much: These two were exhibited side by side^
In an effort to form an understanding of the controversial work “Piss Christ” (1987) by Andreas Serano – a photograph of a crucifix submerged in the artist’s urine, a hot topic for most of my life – I decided I needed to go to the source rather than reading cometary by spectators, or guessing at
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pictured here:Super Star by Liza Lou, and works by Charles Ray in back ground and foreground. ok, so I might be the worst museum patron of all time – only visiting during free hours or pay-what-you-will times, taking snapshots on my camera phone, and coping-a-feel without white gloves on… but, what can I say? I
Co-curator, Gary Carion-Muravari, addressing the Bloomberg crowd at a private reception and viewing of the exhibit For more information on this year’s exhibit go [here] Curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carion-Murayari, I enjoyed the smaller and more succinct vision for the exhibit. Paired with a historical exhibit of biennial benchmarks from their own collection,
Biola celebrated National Women’s History Month with a women’s art exhibit, poetry readings and live music. On Wednesday, March 10, Biola featured the artwork of 26 female students, staff and alumni in a special art exhibit entitled “process:::” as part of a series of events in “Pearls in Process: Celebrating the Creativity of Women,” Biola’s
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