December 9, 2011
Just over a year ago I wrote In Memoriam: Rozsika Parker, Feminist Art Historian and activist to mark the death of the noted British feminist art historian and psychotherapist Rozsika Parker (December 27, 1945-November 5, 2010). A conference in honor of her work was held in London December 10, CELEBRATING ROZSIKA PARKER 1945 – 2010, [...]
Posted in art, General | Tagged feminism, feminist art, Feminist art history, Griselda Pollock, Old Mistresses, Rozsika Parker, The Feminist Art Project
December 8, 2011
Two painting exhibitions currently across the street from each other on West 25th street challenge any notions one might still harbor about the greater value of being “younger than Jesus.” By some fortuitous coincidence just a few steps separate “Joan Mitchell: The Last Paintings” at Cheim & Read from “Matta: A Centennial Celebration” at Pace [...]
Posted in art, painting | Tagged H. C. Westermann, Jack Tworkov, Joan Mitchell, old age style, Richard Artschwager, Roberto Matta, Willem de Kooning
November 15, 2011
When the NYPD raided the Occupy Wall Street Encampment at Zuccotti Park this morning, they tossed the 5,554 books that were assembled from donations into The People’s Library, an extemporaneous institution with a proper librarian and its own website, into dumpsters. According to the story as reported this morning on mediabistro.com: “According to the city’s [...]
Posted in art, General | Tagged Leo Steinberg, Occupy Wall Street, The People's Library
November 12, 2011
Combatant Status Review Tribunals pp. 002954-003064: A Public Reading is a two-day presentation at MoMA, today Saturday November 12 and tomorrow Sunday November 13, of a four-hour reading of transcripts from Combatant Status Review Tribunals held at the United States military prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in 2004-2005, excerpted from a collection of transcripts [...]
Posted in art | Tagged Andrea Geyer, David Thorne, MoMA, performance art, Sharon Hayes
October 19, 2011
This morning artist Noah Fischer posted on Facebook an announcement for Occupy Museums: Occupy Museums! Speaking out in front of the Cannons The game is up: we see through the pyramid schemes of the temples of cultural elitism controlled by the 1%. No longer will we, the artists of the 99%, allow ourselves to be [...]
Posted in art | Tagged MoMA, Occupy Museums, Occupy Wall Street
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