Grace-Yvette Gemmell
I am an Art and Cultural Historian on the heels of completing my dissertation at Cornell University while working concurrently as a curatorial researcher at the Museum of the City of New York in Manhattan. I am interested in the intersections between visual and material culture, rhetoric and ... Read more
Magazine posts contributed by Grace-Yvette Gemmell
Finding Your Way Through the Performa Biennial
11/01 |
Grace-Yvette Gemmell
Judging from the lineup at Performa this year, RoseLee Goldberg has again assembled a daring range of new performance work for 2011’s biennial, from the labyrinthine personal narratives driving Simon Fujiwara’s The Boy Who Cried Wolf, to Shirin Neshat’s seditious iconographies of resistance in OverRuled, and the unconventional blending of musical genres propelling Robert Ashley’s iconic experimental opera That Morning Thing. Elmgreen and Dragset even convinced Goldberg to let them mount a fairly traditional theater piece, a rare occurrence for Performa.
What to See: This Week in NYC
11/08 |
Grace-Yvette Gemmell
Look for work from Latin American artists this week, with Christie’s and Sotheby’s holding their Latin American art auctions, exhibitions of Latin and South American art opening around the city, and the third annual PINTA Art Fair running from November 10-13. The modern and contemporary Latin American art fair assembles fifty select galleries from Latin and South America, the United States, and Europe.
Pursuing a Utopian Apocalypse
12/19 |
Grace-Yvette Gemmell
Paul Jacobsen is living deliberately. From his rustic Redhook studio to the Walden on wheels he constructed in Sullivan County, Jacobsen has mastered the art of seamlessly integrating the natural with the man-made. A self-proclaimed anti-industrial Romantic, Jacobsen approaches civilization’s future collapse with a certain nostalgia.
2012 Biennial Preview
01/24 |
Grace-Yvette Gemmell
The biennial continues to grow in popularity this year with just about every corner of the world dabbling in some form of the genre. This year's bumper crop once again hopes to sidestep accusations of myopic curatorial decisions with an eye set on paradigmatic shifts in artistic practice which subvert the institution itself.
New Museum Triennial: The Ungovernables
02/17 |
Grace-Yvette Gemmell
New Museum curator Eungie Joo has assembled an impressive array of new works from over fifty artists and collectives for The Ungovernables, this year’s edition of the museum’s triennial. The Ungovernables underscores Ernst Fischer’s sentiment that “in a decaying society, art, if it is truthful, must also reflect decay. And unless it wants to break faith with its social function, art must show the world as changeable. And help to change it.”
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