by Claudine Isé | Apr 10, 2009 | Blog, Review
Brian Dettmer’s sculptures are like steampunk versions of data clouds. Treating books as if they were bodies under investigation (the word ‘autopsy’ comes up frequently in discussions of this artist’s work), Dettmer expertly fillets them,...
by Claudine Isé | Apr 10, 2009 | Blog
Wow. I thought this story might be cooling down, but instead it’s exploding! Check out this link-filled update by Hrag Vartanian on the occupation & arrests at The New School over the mass firings of adjunct fine art faculty calling for New School President...
by Claudine Isé | Apr 10, 2009 | Blog
On the social networking front….The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMET) in Athens, Greece, presents Tag ties & effective spies, an online exhibition of internet art that takes a critical look at social networking. From the exhibition website: Tag ties...
by Claudine Isé | Apr 10, 2009 | Blog
A subjective round-up of the week’s art-world events, news stories, blog links and other happenings in Chicago and beyond that are of note or otherwise got me thinkin’. *Deathtoll of L’Aquila earthquake in Italy is at 189; the earthquake injured over...
by Claudine Isé | Apr 6, 2009 | Blog
ArtBabble, the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s new online site for videos about art and artists, goes public tomorrow (Tuesday, April 7th). The Beta site has been up for a few months by invitation only (which were not hard to get), and so far it looks pretty great....