Wednesday Clips for 8/19/09
August 19, 2009 · Print This Article
from Little People, a Tiny Street Art Project
Ready, set, go:
*The Victorian Poetic Home.
*The story behind Klan-themed Quilts.
*How to practice green visual criticism (via The Groundswell Blog).
*Most major art museums are still dramatically lacking diversity.
*Love, love love this: Little People: a Tiny Street Art Project; see above image for an example.
*Art21 has a really interesting article on the issues that arise when installing and conserving Jenny Holzer’s works.
*White House Canvas: Rachel Somerstein analyzes an overlooked aspect of the White House’s much-buzzed about new art picks: their unusual (for the White House, anyway) emphasis on Abstraction. (Via Hrag Vartanian).
*Eight cities whose future is in serious doubt.
*I’m a Photographer, not a Terrorist! (Via Boing Boing).
*In Malibu, California, someone actually busts out the phrase “go back to the Valley!” in all stupid seriousness. You go, L.A. Urban Rangers!
Written by Claudine Isé
Claudine Isé has worked in the field of contemporary art as a writer and curator for the past decade, and currently serves as the Editor of the Art21 Blog. Claudine regularly writes for Artforum.com and Chicago magazine, and has also worked as an art critic for the Los Angeles Times. Before moving to Chicago in 2008, she worked at the Wexner Center in Columbus, OH as associate curator of exhibitions, and at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles as assistant curator of contemporary art, where she curated a number of Hammer Projects. She has Ph.D. in Film, Literature and Culture from the University of Southern California.
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