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
October 3, 2010
The necessity of being perceived as having a brand at first glance seems to be specific to our time: in politics you’ll hear that President Obama can’t do such and such because it would go against “The Brand.” Brand Obama or Brand Brad Pitt can’t be altered without entering into a Bermuda triangle of non-recognition [...]
Posted in art, painting, sculpture | Tagged Abstract Expressionism, Ad Reinhardt, Arshile Gorki, Barnett Newman, Clement Greenberg, David Smith, Jack Tworkov, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, MoMA, Norman Kleeblatt, painting, Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning
May 23, 2010
The overall atmosphere of Friday’s symposium at MoMA, “Art Institutions and Feminist Politics Now,” was more low key than the 2007 MoMA symposium The Feminist Future: Theory in Practice in the Visual Arts. Although the museum claimed the event was sold out, the auditorium never seemed completely full and the overall sense of buzz was [...]
Posted in art | Tagged curating, feminism, feminist art, Ilse Bing, Kathy Halbreich, MoMA, photography, Womanhouse
May 16, 2010
Next Friday May 21, there will be a symposium at MoMA on Art Institutions and Feminist Politics Now (where “an international group of artists, writers, curators, historians and activists discuss the impact of recent debates about art and feminism on exhibitions, collections, pedagogy, and cultural politics.”). This continues a series of major feminism-related events held [...]
Posted in art | Tagged abstract art, Alina Szapocznikow, feminist art, Lee Bontecou, Louise Bourgeois, MoMA, Myron Stout, women artists
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