May 2013
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April 2013
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Internet Archive: Create|Curate with Archive.org →
internetarchive:
Internet Archive will be accepting 52 people for week long tumblr residencies. We are looking for creators, hackers, educators, curators, tumblr kids and anyone else looking to play with some code and content. Applications are due June 1st.
Here’s how it works: You create a custom tumblr theme…
Big Red & Shiny: Big Red & Shiny: We're looking... →
bigredandshiny:
Do you write? Do you photograph? Have you been thinking of contributing to Our Daily Red blog but are unsure how to take the next step? Are you curious about what we look for in a writer? Don’t worry about having a ton of publications under your belt and lots of experience. Here’s a list of…
March 2013
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January 2013
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Solid Advice: "Start 2013 right: clean out all the... →
whereandy:
I want to share a piece of advice with you to start 2013: consider auditing all the apps you have authorized on Facebook and Twitter. I don’t want to cause unnecessary alarm, but it’s just something worth considering, and it takes two seconds. A little background:
Every time you sign up for a new…
November 2012
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WatchA time-lapse video of artist Ambreen Butt’s installation of her work “I Am My Lost Diamond” (2011) at Carroll and Sons gallery, which is comprised of 25,000 to 30,000 life-size casts of portions of toes, fingers, and feet.
I wrote about “I Am My Lost Diamond” in the November/December issue of Art New England:
It’s the largest, most imposing piece in the show, but is less political...
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The People's Bailout →
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This is a long post but it’s about something pretty interesting so I hope you’ll indulge … Like many folks, Occupy Wall Street has been some doing good work in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, helping people on the ground. Now OWS is launching the ROLLING JUBILEE, a program that has been in…
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October 2012
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Tomashi Jackson's invisible labor
When I met artist Tomashi Jackson, she was washing a floor-to-ceiling window at the New School in downtown New York City and attired in a dress-like uniform that a woman on the cleaning staff of a hotel or office building might wear every day. Though tall and dressed all in white, no one seemed to notice her during our 30-minuted conversation except for another woman wearing a similar uniform who...
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September 2012
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WatchThis is a Kickstarter video you’ll want to watch more than once. I’m biased, but I think it’s the best Kickstarter video ever made.
Watch it, share it, and support the relaunch of Boston art journal Big Red & Shiny.
August 2012
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If private equity plays a scavenger role in the...
Though I worked as a business journalist for a year and another few at a venture-backed software startup, I’m not an expert on the matters of financial capital at any stage of a company’s life cycle. I am, however, a nerd, and when I heard economist James K. Galbraith describe private equity as serving the role of a scavenger in an interview on Radio Open Source, I wondered whether there was such...
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Jonah Lehrer’s mistakes are rooted in journalism’s...
By now, you’ve heard all about the downfall of Jonah Lehrer, the now ex-golden boy of science writing. He plagiarized himself and fabricated quotes for a book and has been the subject of withering scorn and disapproval ever since the news broke. Some critics have dulled their condemnations by suggesting that because the New Yorker, Wired, and WNYC Radiolab contributor, and best-selling author...
June 2012
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Conclusions from @CreativeTimeNYC curator...
Note: Except where identified, the views expressed here are not those of the panelists, but the conclusions I drew from the information and opinions presented in the panelists’ discussion.
On June 19, the last day of Spring 2012, Creative Time chief curator Nato Thompson lead a discussion with Not An Alternative’s Beka Economopoulos and Jason Jones about the effects of the Occupy movement and its...
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It's telling that we're getting journalism about...
As if we need to be reminded that they’e not the same.
A recent Art Newspaper article (“Curators turn East but Art Basel looks to the US: Documenta, Manifesta, La Triennale and the Kiev Biennale strike a different tone to the art market”) compares and contrasts art fairs with international exhibitions. The piece offers up a lot of refreshing stats and quotes for those of us that...
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Will we ever know how much we've missed by largely...
Perhaps not without a time machine, but “L.A. Raw: Abject Expressionism in Los Angeles 1945–1980, From Rico Lebrun to Paul McCarthy” at the Pasadena Museum of California Art traces the development of art imbued with the politics that so many taste-makers seemed adverse to in the decades after World War II. Like many exhibitions organized under the auspices of the Pacific Standard Time...
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Young Curators, New Ideas: Exhibition via wiki
Young Curators, New Ideas IV, the 2012 edition of Mr. and Mrs. Amani Olu’s serial exhibition, was crowd sourced.
The show follows a wiki method (think Wikinomics) in that it’s built on the efforts of 12 young “curators” who are promised space in a 7,000-square-foot Chelsea gallery in return for selecting artists to exhibit. With the space comes the benefit of a large...
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Out of this Body: Inside Lana Z Caplan's mind?
Out of this Body, Lana Z Caplan’s installation in Fountain Studios’ project space, feels like a cacophonous mess of point-of-view video, but only if you don’t give the work the time it deserves. The installation, titled When you cut into the present, the future leaks out (2012), seems like a real-time representation of a mind’s eye in r.e.m. sleep and shows off...
May 2012
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Taylor Davis, @DodgeGallery, thanks for the...
So many sculptors fail to recognize the potential for their work to give us a new way to experience space. Taylor Davis isn’t one of them.
Every time I experience (not just look, but experience) new works by the artist, I can’t not think about how their length, width, and height affect my perception, and her latest works at Dodge Gallery were no exception.
Tbox 1, 2012 birch plywood and oil...
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Former Bain Capital managing director Edward...
Edward Conard, Former Bain Capital managing director, Mitt Romney partner, and newly published author, has an economic philosophy similar to that of Joseph Stalin’s.
Conard’s widely reported - and derided - attitude towards anyone with the capacity “to join the risk-taking, innovation-hunting mechanism [of the economy] but who chose[s] instead a less competitive life,” whom Conard scorns...
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April 2012
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Biennials abound. Prospect postpones.
Via Gallerist, via New Orleans Times-Picayune:
Prospect 3 New Orleans is now scheduled for the fall of 2014, bumped up from 2013.
Prospect consulting director and former MIT List Visual Art Center director Jane Farver told the Times-Picayune that the exhibition was rescheduled so it doesn’t coincide with the biennials slated for Venice, Istanbul, and the Carnegie International in...
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A campaign to make Brooklyn seem less hip so...
I’m thinking about launching a campaign to make Brooklyn seem less hip so artists want to leave and move back to their hometowns.
Think about it. Most artists (visual, musical, wordical, etc.) are poor, and yet so many live in - or aspire to live in - Brooklyn or somewhere else New York City, one of the most expensive cities on the planet. The idea is that there’s more opportunity, more culture,...
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The 13 Most Useless College Majors (As Determined...
Social media - e.g. the internet - seems to be humming on the energy and creativity of the individuals educated by “useless college majors.”
newsweek:
1. Fine Arts
2. Drama and Theatre Arts
3. Film, Video, and Photographic Arts
4. Commercial Art and Graphic Design
5. Architecture
6. Philosophy and Religious Studies
7. English Literature and Language
8. Journalism
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Boston should never host an art fair.
Boston should not host an art fair. It would neither benefit Boston artists nor the city of Boston and would likely fail. What Boston and its arts community might want to consider is a city-wide biennial, but that’s another post for another day (and perhaps another writer). The Boston artist Donna Dodson emailed me a week ago to talk about some ideas she had for business-oriented Boston Globe blog...
February 2012
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Why the @BCASouthEnd continues to disappoint as a...
This is a semi-edited response to a friend’s Facebook post asking why the Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) would be losing its Director of Programs, Kristina Newman-Scott after only one year. My response essentially tries to answer the question in the headline.
This is what I think (and I’m drawing some conclusions from the reasons behind Laura Donaldson’s departure in 2007):...
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.@AestheticResear, why don't you curate a show of...
The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research writes that Boston University’s 808 Gallery, a former car dealership, should see more programming. As one of the largest venues in the region, its size gives it potential as a “major new museum,” writes the Journal’s Greg Gook.
It would be a great venue to do a big, blowout survey of the conceptually-driven sculpture and...
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WatchReally dig artist Michael Lewy’s “City of Work: Office” on view Carroll and Sons. HT @AestheticResear.
Greg Cook of The New England Journal of Aesthetic Research writes “the whole scene is actually the artist performing in front of a green screen and dropped into a digitally created, 3D-modeled world. Which is why he takes oddly long to emerge from behind the columns he passes...
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Performance art confronts the present.
The fourth floor of the Whitney Museum will be devoted to performance works for the 2012 Biennial.
Does the current state of performance warrant that nearly an entire floor of the Whitney Biennial be devoted to the art form? This is “is the first Whitney Biennial in which nearly a full floor of the Museum has been given over to a changing season of performances, events, and...
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Two artists, both inspired by 13th century...
Update: Feb. 16, 11:30 am: Quotes by Yuka Otani added.*
Japanese artist aricoco’s shelter/installation RUNawayHOME, which came down on Feb. 12 at Real Art Ways, was inspired by 13th century Japanese poet Kamo no Chōmei’s (Chomei Kamono) essay Hōjōki, an account of his retreat to a remote ten-foot-square hut and his reflections on various natural disasters and tumult he had witnessed.
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January 2012
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