Museums
Kehinde Wiley in Israel: Can we all get along?
05/04 |
Manish Vora, Kelly ...
In his Israel series, Wiley brings together the contemporary—the young men who pose for the portraits—and the traditional—the ceremonial papercuts that are the source for the backgrounds—to create a dynamic new form that empowers and enlivens both.
Read Our Guggenheim Twitter Interview
04/17 |
Jarrett Moran
Thanks to everyone who tuned in for yesterday's live Twitter interview with Guggenheim curator Susan Davidson and, of course, to everyone who submitted insightful questions!
The Guggenheim Announces Its New Global Art Initiative
04/17 |
Amanda Ryan
Last Thursday, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum announced the launch of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, an ambitious new project intended to bring about cross-cultural exchange and broaden the scope of the Guggenheim’s collection.
Get Real at the Walker Art Center
04/10 |
Tiffany Jow
The Walker Art Center’s current exhibition is like one of those television shows where a masked magician leaks the secrets of his most jaw-dropping stunts: you get the satisfaction of seeing a good trick and get to learn how it’s done.
The Art of Dirt, Dust, and Sand
04/05 |
Lucy Li
Dirt, dust, and sand form the perfect antithesis to the “white box” aesthetic. They illustrate the passage of time, the existence of history, and the absence of light. They offer proof of violence and destruction, collect marks, hide things, form deceptions. Yet they are powerless against wind, water, detergent, and our cultural conception of their negligible value. The Museum of Arts and Design continues to examine non-traditional materials.
Ask a Guggenheim Curator, Win Prizes
03/30 |
Jarrett Moran
Tomorrow (Friday, March 30) is the deadline to submit your questions for our live Twitter Q&A with Guggenheim Senior Curator Susan Davidson, curator of John Chamberlain: Choices. If your question is selected for the interview, you’ll have a chance to win a package including the John Chamberlain: Choices exhibition catalogue, a pair of tickets to the Guggenheim, and a pair of tickets to Artlog’s SoHo VIP tour and art crawl or Chelsea art crawl ($341 total value).
Traveling to Mount Pom Pom
03/13 |
Pauline Eiferman
Furry animals, mountains of scrap fabric, and banana-shaped benches: there’s no doubt about it, this is Misaki Kawai’s studio. Welcome to Mount Pom Pom, the imaginary mountain from which nuggets of the artist’s crazy imagination explode like confetti.
The Last Word: Critchley on Cattelan
01/17 |
Jarrett Moran, Simo...
Maurizio Cattelan’s retrospective at the Guggenheim is inseparable from his sudden art world retirement. Guggenheim chief curator Nancy Spector has invited the philosopher Simon Critchley to co-organize The Last Word, a symposium that takes the end of the exhibition and Cattelan’s art career as a starting point for discussing “the end” from nearly every vantage point imaginable.
Museum Highlights: 2012
12/22
Amidst all the best-of-2011 lists (ours is on its way), we can’t resist peeking ahead at the museum exhibitions planned for 2012. These are our highlights from New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, and Washington, D.C.
New York Finally Sees the Art Behind the Controversy
11/20 |
Amanda Ryan
Late last Fall, the exhibition Hide/Seek opened at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, the first major museum exhibition to explore gay and lesbian identity in American art. One month into its run, conservative website CNS News wrote a scathing editorial about the show, focusing its attacks on David Wojnarowicz’s video piece A Fire in My Belly. The video’s montage of unsettling images expresses Wojnarowicz’s suffering as an AIDS victim and his anger at society for demonizing AIDS and refusing to help those in need. CNS decried one scene in particular, in which ants are shown crawling over a crucifix, as sacrilegious and intentionally offensive.
A Renovated Museum Illuminates Savannah
11/17 |
Amanda Ryan
After bringing artists like Marina Abramović to campus for its deFINE Art program, the Savannah College of Art and Design has now opened a teaching museum that will continue to bring world-class artists and opportunities to Savannah. The newly renovated SCAD Museum of Art encompasses a sprawling 82,000 square feet, combining sleek modern forms with the city’s historic architecture.
Museum Nerd Roundup: Foursquare Museum Hopping
11/14 |
Museum Nerd
I started using Foursquare because people seeing my tweets about art and museums were saying, “I want to see that, where is it?” A Foursquare check-in with a note attached creates a tweet that solves this problem, because Foursquare automatically attaches a link telling people where you are. When you click the link, you see the name of the place, its address, and other people’s comments and recommendations about the place.
