Ah, the list. The end of the year always means that the reading public is beleaguered with lists, each purporting to tell us the best and worst contribution to culture over the past twelve months. I’m always torn with lists;…
My Sunday morning New York Times-and-coffee ritual was sullied by another piece of lazy art-collector-bashing proclaiming that “Wall Street high rollers and Chinese, Russian and Latin American tycoons” buy art only as a place to “park their money” and therefore…
I wanted to like Ann Hamilton’s ‘the event of a thread’ and I did, but not in the ways I anticipated. Reading about the elements of Hamilton’s installation at the Park Avenue Armory (NYC) I imagined an experience of transcendence…
Has anyone else noticed that Art Basel Miami Beach seems to have produced its own seasonal affective disorder? Reading Patricia Cohen’s “An Art World Gather, Divided by Money”, a roundup of the usual art world suspects and their art-fair…
Carrying its mission into the public forum, Big Red & Shiny will host a discussion on art & community moderated by Katherine French, Director of the Danforth Museum. Community art specifically refers to art that takes place within a community…