Art

Sun, Apr 25 2010

PABLO HELGUERA

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LECTURE INTRODUCTION Artist Pablo Helguera provides an introduction to his work while discussing emerging art practices that involve social interaction, research, and pedagogy. ABOUT PABLO HELGUERA Pablo...

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Mon, Apr 5 2010

Artist is threatened with jail sentence in “free” Ukraine

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A Ukrainian artist-activist and blogger Alexander Volodarsky (internet pseudonym Shiitman) is facing a trail in Kiev criminal court that can lead to a serious jail sentence. In November 2009, Alexander...

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Fri, Feb 19 2010

Hal Foster

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This lecture concerns a different position within Modernist practice, neither vanguard nor resistant, which proceeds by way of a mimetic exacerbation of the worst conditions in contemporary society. ABOUT...

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Tue, Feb 16 2010

The Relative Merits of Censorship

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Strong Back (2008) by Mishek Masamvu In the Western world, the free world we are proud of our freedoms, eponymously so. As creative professionals, as artists, we claim freedom of expression as a cornerstone...

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Sun, Dec 27 2009

A Portrait on Chris Burden by Newport Harbor Art Museum

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Sat, Nov 7 2009

Anish Kapoor on Sculpture at the Guggenheim

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Last Month, the New York Guggenheim Museum unveiled Anish Kapoor’s large scale sculptural installation, Memory. A 24 tons steel structure, Memory (2008) is a site specific work designed to engage...

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Thu, Oct 29 2009

Two Albums of America

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"Untitled" (1990) by Robert Bergman In an unusual choice, New York’s PS1 Museum is exhibiting a solo show called “Selected Portraits” by the American photographer Robert Bergman....

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Tue, Oct 27 2009

To Save and Project (Curator Interview)

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MoMA puts on its 7th annual restoration/preservation film festival, To Save and Project, exhibiting over 25 films. SMAC has here interviewed the Assistant Curator, Joshua Siegel, who describes in detail...

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Sun, Oct 25 2009

No Echo, No Shadow – An Interview with Anton Ginzburg

One of the exhibitions during the 3rd Moscow Bienniale was No Echo, No Shadow, Anton Ginzburg’s solo show at Galerie Iragui. After the show opened I sat down with Anton to talk about the exhibition...

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Sat, Oct 24 2009

Is the Future Green? The Biopolitics of Sustainability in Contemporary Art and Design

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Taking the recent hi-profile cultural activities surrounding Al Gore’s climate change campaign as the point of entry, this talk will address how the increasingly prominent trope of sustainability...

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