#artswriting

[jdmathes]

(via Writing for UCR Arts)

[curatorialandco]

Thank you so much @janiealbert @louiedouvis for the fabulous feature in @financialreview - link in profile • True, I am not one to follow the herd! Opening an ‘anti-gallery’ during COVID times? Crazy maybe but utterly necessary to continue to support our artists and the arts community in general during this time. Join us for our opening exhibition HERE WITH ME from 14 August at our new Redfern space. Bookings essential - link in profile. Painting by Isabelle de Kleine. #art #afr #curatorialandco #artswriting #artgallery #sydneygallery https://www.instagram.com/p/CDkbscijXxy/?igshid=1mc01kzxo1to8

[timesothercompany]

Conversations about our monuments, museums, screens and stages have the same blind spots as our political discourse.

I’ve been collecting articles in preparation for a community workshop I’m giving on reading art criticism. 

This Op-Ed by Elizabeth Mendez Berry and Chi-hui Yang on culture-writers of colour is from July 2019:

“Think of cultural criticism as a public utility, civic infrastructure that needs to be valued not based just on its monetary impact but also on its capacity to expand the collective conversation at a time when it is dangerously contracting. Arts writing fosters an engaged citizenry that participates in the making of its own story.”

[newsworthyindc]

This past Sunday I reviewed @renwickgallery’ No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man for the North West Current. These photos of sanctuary room made of wooden blocks that visitors can write on. #museumpreview #Artswriting #WashingtonDC #nospectators (at Renwick Gallery)

[artintheageofblacklivesmatt-blog]

About the Archive

This archive is a culminating project for the summer 2017 course, “Art in the Age of #BlackLivesMatter,” at the University of Virginia. It is a curated window into the views and discussions we have developed during the course. In conjunction with the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S., we have learned how to analyze works from a variety of artists across a range of mediums, looking closely at art produced since 2012 that addresses contemporary black American social life.

This digital archive contains some of our best analyses and observations concerning key pieces and artists featured in our course material. In analyzing paintings, photographs, collages, films, poems, short stories, graphic novels, and popular music, we formed arguments focused on racial injustice and its persistence in America. We also saw with greater visibility the legacy of slavery in the United States, and how structural oppression permeates the politics of representation. With this project, we have become historians, curators, and creators of contemporary art and culture. By compiling our arts writing in this way, we have catalogued selected works made in the age of Black Lives Matter, and have historicized them in doing so. Our posts are categorized based on medium and genre, and where there are multiple posts on the same art object, we have featured different perspectives. Scrolling through, you will also get a sense of our individual voices, cultural sensibilities, and stylistic tics. We see this archive as a digital platform that facilitates mindful and ethical discussions surrounding so-called political art, providing insight into the relationships between art, race, protest, and representation.        

- Et. al.

[winterforelbows-blog]

"I think about clay as something timeless, not necessarily primitive, just very basic. Itʼs a raw material like wood or stone, and has been used since the beginning of time, and is a fact that enables me to play and balance the ancientness with the newness." - Anna-Bella Papp. 🌑🌑Read my interview with the Transylvanian sculptor in the new issue of @vaultartmagazine✌🏻️ Buy at decent book shops or subscribe: vaultart.com.au/ #vaultmagazine #annabellapapp #stuartshave #modernart #unfiredclay #sculptor #nashersculpturecentre #artswriting #claymaking

[bneart]

Written by Tara Heffernan

For the exhibition ‘One & Other’ by Jake Sun. Courtesy of Inhouse Ari

[sydmcfadden]

Katie Torn, The New Aesthetic under the gun of the New Vision Test

Ms. Kianga's video of Katie Torn's The Calm Before The Storm on view now at Postmasters was all I needed to see toward making the obvious deducing correlation about what test would be needed to verify the validity of this anti-video-art GIF work. New Aesthetic artists like Ms. Torn are best grasped by The New Vision Test, devised on the set of Facts of Life in 1983 when a protege of Andy Warhol substituted and was moonlighting as a key grip for a few days.  Her name? Destiny Torn. That's not a coincidence folks. First check the video, the New Vision Test and results are below.

The New Vision Test as related to art and quantifying natural tendencies of the visible spectrum, you must examine the iris and the diameter throughout the piece. (This was especially notable at Jim Turrell's recent Guggenheim show as is always the case with his work, although he is not considered New Aesthetic.) It can get a little Clockwork Orangey but the results are tantalyzingly remarkable regards New Aesthetic underpinnings across New York, SF, Berlin, London, and also, unsurprisingly, Sao Paulo. I ran the New Vision Test on Ms. Torn's piece well over 100 times and always the same result, see for yourself:

It doesn't take a New Aesthetic genius to read these results. Even Jerry Saltz would be able to recognize the value at play here. GIFs recently sold at auction thanks to up and coming ace curator Lindsay Howard and we all know where that's going to go. Invest now.

Little known facts regarding the associative foreground that bridges across the transmedia moment where the fragmented mirror phase becomes apparent. Again we see the Japanese avant gaard that fuels the contemporary marketplace, their handle on the 2020's is clear. One only need go shopping even in the untrendy suburbs of Tokyo and the subconscious soaks up 3 years of art education in an afternoon.

But it's a pair of Chuck Taylor's on an angry art critic that fly off for a singular hop in the jacuzzi when the Miami Art Festivals bounce into full swing. You can bet I'll be there wondering as you must be: is Katie related to Destiny?

In the end, the surprises shine through, in a good way. Postmasters will always be a few years ahead of the game. The integration of seafaring vessels as a maritime symbol that comes and goes with the tides allows the fairweather foes another bandwagon to get behind. Timely moment as the balloons only a few days ago floated the length of Manhattan while Katie Torn looked on in green.

A special thanks to the indomitable Ms. Kianga for her free-energy font of inspiring windows through which we view true value in an age that knows only hollowness.