By Dr. Milda Richardson Print this article The Art of Mastering Life by Brian Francois Observing to Make Sense by Kerry Rubenstein A Joyous Bundle of Summations by Daniel Horowitz Art Does Not Reproduce the Visible by Libby Leyden-Sussler In…
“All things that spin. Also row. / There is inside it / something sun.” —Cole Swensen Two friends stand on a winter beach. Small cold waves hiss toward them on the sand. A fringe of seaweed that bears an uncanny…
Exploring identity in her modernist novel Orlando, Virginia Woolf suggests that people wish to be in a state “stilled, and become, what is called, rightly or wrongly, a single self, a real self.”1 It is easy to see a traditional…
Barcelona’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) opened its doors in the city’s Raval district in 1995, though its Foundation dates back to 1987, when a broad cross-section of Catalan civil society and private companies created the MACBA Foundation. The Foundation,…
As an artist, curators have always mystified me a bit. I once had a curator tell me that he preferred to work with “dead artists, because they put up less of a fuss”. I was instantly offended but ultimately, begrudgingly,…
The MIT List Visual Arts Center has recently concluded the excellent exhibition, In the Holocene, which proposes fascinating parallels and conditions regarding artistic and scientific speculation. Using the rubric of Robert Smithson’s artistic inquiries (his work is represented several times…
There can be no art revolution that is separate from a science revolution, a political revolution, an education revolution, a drug revolution, a sex revolution, or a personal revolution . . . —Lee Lozano, Statement for Art Worker’s Coalition, 1969.…