by Guest | Dec 3, 2009 | Blog
Off-Topic invites artists, curators, writers, and cultural workers to discuss a subject not directly related to the practice of making art. We would like to welcome Stacia Yeapanis as our latest guest with her post, “My Feminism is 80s Teen Movie Favored”....
by Claudine Isé | Dec 2, 2009 | Blog
Wanna talk about new modes of global curation? Chicago-based arts writer Alicia Eler and video collector Jefferson Godard have teamed up to curate Performance Anxiety, a program of seven short videos by Chicago and New York City-based artists which can only be seen in...
by Meg Onli | Dec 1, 2009 | Blog
The New Artist People Series focuses on six contemporary Japanese artists; giving insight to their practice and a wider scope to art occurring in Japan. For their second installment they document the eccentric life of eighty year-old avant-garde artist/poet Yayoi...
by Meg Onli | Dec 1, 2009 | Blog
Supernova from Siggi Eggertsson on Vimeo. On this week’s video pick we bring you Siggi Eggertsson’s Supernova. You will probably recognize his work since he is a pretty popular Illustrator based in Berlin. He has done cover work for Gnarls Barkley’s...
by Meg Onli | Dec 1, 2009 | Blog
Emory Douglas will be speaking tonight, Tuesday, December 1st, at Columbia College. Douglas was the Minister of Culture for the Black Panther Party and recently has received a resurgence of interest after his touring retrospective. I had a chance to catch Black...
by Guest | Dec 1, 2009 | Blog
Guest post by Damien James. I heard all about what made the ancient Romans laugh (an inordinate amount of what were essentially absent-minded professor jokes), where Wittgenstein and Buster Keaton converge, the bathroom habits of insects, and Jewish humor. I heard...
