Darwin: Deep-sea diving for food Gallery 4A (foray?) Coming out of college she couldn’t get a job!! In the end came to the conclusion that even tough she had some experience she had to create something for herself. “If you really want to do it, insist, because sometimes it takes more effort if you’re an… Continue reading Museum of Chinese in America – Curators in Conversation: Melissa Chiu, Director of Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, and Herb Tam, Chief Curator of The Museum of Chinese in America
Category: Talks/ Readings/ Events
Mana Contemporary – “Art Criticism and Writing with Owen Duffy”
Has been writing for 7 or 8 years 2 sentences for the pitch (?!) Any response (gentle no) is better than silence Queens County Chronicle; Journal of Curatorial Studies “Someone else’s voice gently mixed into it.” He was offered $500 for the article; he asked for more, and got $750. Art & Education: $1,000 for… Continue reading Mana Contemporary – “Art Criticism and Writing with Owen Duffy”
“Sara Jensen Carr: On Epidemics” – Open House New York
G = Greg Wessner; S = Sara Jensen Carr; Q = listener question Gregory Wessner, the executive director of Open House New York, introduced the launch of the Conversations on the City series. This is their first ever webinar and though he can’t see us he’s going to pretend that he’s talking to all… Continue reading “Sara Jensen Carr: On Epidemics” – Open House New York
Gallery Walk 2-15-20: Michael Rakowitz at Jane Lombard; Noah Davis at David Zwirner
michael rakowitz at jane lombard • apkallu • wall text on floor. cool. • “it will be very hard to make it like it was.” • it had formed clots on the cots • the ballad of special ols cldy! amazing • cut on the neck • this gi thing is amazing story doll mass • “a dead detainee, a dead iraqi” • []… Continue reading Gallery Walk 2-15-20: Michael Rakowitz at Jane Lombard; Noah Davis at David Zwirner
Martha Graham and Modernism: Trauma, Interdiction, and Agency in “The House of Pelvic Truth”
With Carol Ockman, Netta Yerushamly, and Julia Foulkes what does it mean to live in a body over time? to know that you are going to die in it? “we’re commiting to shapes, to sound very… thin” what a form can be and what it can do and what it could hold contraction: it’s not… Continue reading Martha Graham and Modernism: Trauma, Interdiction, and Agency in “The House of Pelvic Truth”
“The New & Improved MoMA” – Glenn Lowry at the Williams Club
“same cadence” as the earlier stairs “axonometric” heinz “had begun to conflate the taxonomy of collecting w/ the taxonomy of display.” “we had become synonymous with a kind of canonical reading of art history” touchstones: serra, matisse, monet (?!) Giacometti… 3am “surreaaalism” starry night “postmodernism” anna atkins; love! morris hirshfield “if the previous iteration was… Continue reading “The New & Improved MoMA” – Glenn Lowry at the Williams Club
Madison Square Park Conservancy – Innovating Public Art 2019: Martin Puryear, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Holland Cotter, Max Hollein, Ryan Dennis (?), Firelei Báez, Alex Da Corte, Leonard Drew, Stéphane Aquin, Abigail DeVille, Cristina Iglesias
lucy the elephant! oldest roadside attraction da corte: “the sense that all things are public.” “dance for camera” movie: it’s a mad mad mad mad world “again… color, my god.” gene davis leading up to pma barbara kruger on department stores, supervisor asked for more bc of press firelei baez: “i like public space in… Continue reading Madison Square Park Conservancy – Innovating Public Art 2019: Martin Puryear, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Holland Cotter, Max Hollein, Ryan Dennis (?), Firelei Báez, Alex Da Corte, Leonard Drew, Stéphane Aquin, Abigail DeVille, Cristina Iglesias