Thoughts from Across the Cultural Divide: #18 (Art Monk)

Thoughts from Across the Cultural Divide: #18 (Art Monk)

Being a visual artist today is a vow of poverty. Few go voluntarily into art for financial reasons. And those that just happen to meet with financial success, probably would have done even better on Wall Street. From experience I know that the the vision quest toward...
Episode 370: Andrea Fraser

Episode 370: Andrea Fraser

http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_370-Andrea_Fraser.mp3 download This week: San Francisco checks in with a great interview with the legendary Andrea Fraser! Andrea Fraser is a New York-based performance artist, mainly known for her work in...
Sarcastic Flowers: Karen Reimer & Conceptual Craft

Sarcastic Flowers: Karen Reimer & Conceptual Craft

Guest Post by Michael Milano Among the many forms conceptual art of the 60’s and 70’s took, two major threads can be identified. The first, following Sol Lewitt’s definition of conceptual art in which the “idea becomes the machine that makes the art,”# is...
Paul McCartney Between Art and Pop

Paul McCartney Between Art and Pop

As Paul McCartney played “Paperback Writer” during his concerts at Wrigley Field this past July, details from Richard Prince’s nurse paintings flashed behind him on stage four stories high. I was confused. http://youtu.be/3fZu1R9zDoM For a concert with...