by Guest | Feb 21, 2014 | Blog, Review
A current exhibition at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, is a deft rebuttal of Institutional Critique that mashes a variety of well-known works by well-known IC artists together in a confused jumble of brands intelligible only if viewed in the same spirit as one views a shoe rack at a department store. The message, delivered through the cunning mess organized by curators Anne Ellegood, senior curator at the Hammer Museum, and Johanna Burton, Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Engagement at the New Museum, seems to be: Institutional Critique, and by extension most current critical art, is irrelevant. Take it or leave it. I am tempted to agree.
by Christopher Hudgens | Oct 11, 2011 | Podcast
http://traffic.libsyn.com/badatsports/Bad_at_Sports_Episode_319-Allen-Agsten.mp3 download This week: Another chapter in our festival of social practice! We talk to Mark Allen, Founder and Director, Machine Project, Los Angeles, CAÂ and Allison Agsten, Curator of...
by Claudine Isé | Mar 3, 2010 | Blog
I’m bringing this weekly links post back from the dead. There’s too much good stuff out there not to share. So, let us begin: ****Piss Wars: First-person accounts of a performance art kerfluffle involving Ann Liv Young that took place at PS1 Contemporary...
by Claudine Isé | Apr 6, 2009 | Blog
Artist, performer, and director of the School of the Art Institute’s graduate fashion program Nick Cave had a big profile in last Sunday’s New York Times. Cave’s Soundsuits–wearable mixed-media sculptures that incorporate every material...
by Claudine Isé | Mar 30, 2009 | Blog
Libby Rosof and Roberta Fallon have a post up on the artblog about Libby’s Philadelphia encounter with British artist Jeremy Deller’s roving Iraq project, It Is What It Is: Conversations about Iraq, which is coming to the MCA Chicago in the form of an...
