Saturday, February 27, 2010

performance art?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/t-magazine/28well-abramovic.html

Nifty 50

http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/2010-whitney-biennial/

Kurt Schwitters

Merzbau by Dada artist Kurt Schwitters

Jason Rhoades

Subodh Gupta

subodh gupta

mapping the whitney biennial

http://huntercross.com/archive/mapping-the-2010-whitney-biennial/

Nari Ward

Nari Ward
Sharjah Birdhouse, 2005
Plastic bags, car mufflers, metal

Gabriel Orozco

Orozco | "Yielding Stone"

Superflex

http://www.superflex.net/projects/copyshop/

Marjetica Potrc

http://www.potrc.org/
Marjetica Potrc Hybrid House: Caracas, West Bank, West Palm Beach, 2003 Building materials, communication and energy infrastructure

Jordan Wolfson

http://www.jordanwolfson.org/
wolfson | "great dictator..."

Liam Gillick

working in groups of three:
http://www.e-flux.com/journal/view/41

Saadane Afif

afif | power chords

Loris Greaud

Broodthaers | Museum of Modern Art, Department of Eagles

broodthaer's museum

Anri Sala

Kim Soo Ja

 
Kim Soo Ja | Bottari Truck, 2000. Used clothes and bed covers, Rodin gallery, Seoul.

Maya Lin interviewed on CNN by Amanpour

http://www.artdesigncafe.com/environmental-art-social-publicity-2010

Thursday, February 25, 2010

Art and Today Critical Discussion Facilitator Schedule | Grad Art Seminar | 3:05-5:45

Art & Today | Critical Discussion Facilitators | Grad Art Seminar 3:05-5:45

Art & The Quotidian Object: March 8th
Reading: Readymade, found object, photograph by Margaret Iverson
To get this article online, login to the jstor database through the new paltz library. Your np userid and password will grant you access.jstor
Discussion Facilitators: Dan and Lis

Art & Abstraction: April 12th
Reading: PDF uploaded to blackboard-  This represents the last chapter from a book by Kirk Varnedoe, titled Pictures of Nothing Abstract Art Since Pollock.  The book was made to capture a series of Mellon lectures given at the National Gallery of Art in 2003.  Acting as head curator of painting and sculpture at MoMA, he also held a professorship at Princeton University.  These lectures were devised in response to E.H. Gombrich's highly successful series in 1956, titled, Art and Illusion: A Study in the Psychology of Pictorial Representation.  I hope you enjoy!

Discussion Facilitators: Carrie and Sam

Art & Nature and Technology: April 12th
Reading: Transhumanisn and Posthumanism - PDF uploaded to blackboard
Discussion Facilitators: Lynn and Rebecca

Art & The Body: April 19th
Reading: two art and body pdfs uploaded to blackboard
Discussion Facilitators: Allison and David

Art and Identity: April 19th
Reading: 'Why have there been no great women artists?' by Linda Nochlin
http://www.miracosta.edu/home/gfloren/nochlin.htm
Discussion Facilitators: Crystal and Deborah

Art & Globalization: April 26th
Reading: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0268/is_3_42/ai_110913974/?tag=content;col1
Discussion Facilitators: Keith and Jen

Art & Its Institutions: April 26th
Reading: https://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&ik=c42c782099&view=att&th=127cc37792401cad&attid=0.1&disp=inline&zw
Discussion Facilitators: Joe and Joe

Art & Audience: May 3rd
Reading: PDFs uploaded to blackboard. Both essays are from the book, "What We Want is Free: generosity and exchange in recent art" edited by Ted Purves published by State
University of New York Press in Albany.

The first essay is by Ted Purves "Introductory Remarks on the
Handbook" and the second it by Francis McIlveen "exchange-the other
social sculpture".

Discussion Facilitators: Ruth and Shin

Art and Spirituality: May 3rd
Reading: "Concerning the Spiritual" by Kandinsky  | PDF uploaded to Blackboard
Please find attached the reading for Art and Spirituality presentation on May 3rd.
The reading is an essay written by Kandinsky in 1911 titled “Concerning the Spirituality in Art”.
I have sent you the entire essay for your summertime poolside reading pleasure (!) but for the presentation I would like you to read pages 33 to 39. These are the page numbers of the actual essay, not the pdf page numbers.

Discussion Facilitators: Lili

Art and Today Critical Discussion Facilitator Schedule | Grad Art Seminar | 6:30-9:20

Art & Today | Critical Discussion Facilitators | Grad Art Seminar 6:30-9:20

READ:
Art & Architecture: March 8th
Reading: http://flavorwire.com/70689/king-kongs-of-architecture
and "From Bauhaus to Our House" -uploaded to blackboard
Discussion Facilitators: Kathryn, Patrick, Bruce

Art & Representation: April 12th
Reading:
1. David Hockney article (See attachment)
"The camera today? You can't trust it. Hockney sparks a debate" By Jonathan Jones and Gerard Seenan The Guardian, Thursday 4 March 2004

2 Interviews from Art:21, Ellen Gallagher and Susan Rothenberg. 
Ellen Gallagher

Susan Rothenberg
We have decided this since they are each about 2 pages long but very important to the understanding of our chapter.
Discussion Facilitators: Gina and Madison

Art & Narrative: April 12th
Reading: Here is a link for the PBS Art:21 piece on "Stories" that we are using for people to watch for our discussion on "Narrative". 
http://www.slashcontrol.com/free-tv-shows/art21-art-in-the-twenty-first-century/1724489156-stories
Discussion Facilitators: Sarah and Amy

Art & Nature and Technology: April 19th
Reading: http://www.greenmuseum.org/generic_content.php?ct_id=300
also read this one if time permits: http://www.greenmuseum.org/generic_content.php?ct_id=298
Discussion Facilitators: Cooper and Christina

Art & Deformation: April 19th
Reading: Sideshow U.S.A: Freaks and the American Cultural Imagination by Rachel Adams
PDF uploaded to blackboard- titled sideshow.pdf
Discussion Facilitators: Sarah and Amy

Art & The Body: April 26th
Reading: Chapter 1 in "Carnal Art: Orlan's Refacing"
* you will need to click on the link below and sign in with your new paltz login to view the reading, if link does not take you directly to the reading- then search the database for Orlan's Refacing.
http://site.ebrary.com.libdatabase.newpaltz.edu/lib/newpaltz/docDetail.action?docID=10124797
Discussion Facilitators: Celine and Allyson

Art and Identity: April 26th
Reading: http://www.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources//ENS-bourgeois-EN//ENS-bourgeois-EN.html
Discussion Facilitators: Cooper and Christina

Art and Spirituality: May 3rd
Reading:
Sister Veronica Brady is a writer and commentator on media, culture and social issues.  She has just completed an authoritative biography on the poet Judith Wright.  She is an associate Professor in the Department of English, The university of Western Australia.
http://www.ru.org/81brady.html
Discussion Facilitators: Gina and Madison

Art & Globalization: May 3rd
Reading:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/arts/18abroad.html?ref=design
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/10/arts/design/10chicano.html?ref=design
Discussion Facilitators: Celine and Allyson

Art & The Quotidian Object: May 10th
Reading: 'Molds and Swarms' by David Joselit- PDF uploaded to blackboard
Discussion Facilitators: Kathryn, Patrick, Bruce

speaking of manifestos

http://flavorwire.com/73142/review-reality-hunger

art olympics

http://flavorwire.com/73010/art-olympics-ranking-the-whitney-biennial

Sunday, February 21, 2010

francis alys

coca cola in translation

warhol












Native artists use Coke seal for Winter Olympic art

http://nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3109:native-artists-use-coke-seal-for-winter-olympic-art&catid=47&Itemid=23


http://www.icoke.ca/en

Cildo Meireles
Insertions into Ideological Circuits: Coca-Cola Project
1970

Altermodern | Radicant | Semionauts

simon starling | shed boat shed | 2005
Simon Starling, Autoxylopyrocycloboros, 2006, 
julie mehretu

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Armory Show | March 4-7

http://www.thearmoryshow.com/cgi-local/content.cgi

Scope Art Fair

http://www.scope-art.com/
"At this point I do not want to be outside the structure of power, I do not want to be the opposition, the alternative. Alternative to what: To power? No. I want to have power. It's effective in terms of change. I want to be like a virus that belongs to the institution. All the ideological apparatuses are, in other words, replicating themselves; because that's the way the culture works. So if I function as a virus, an impostor, an infiltrator, I will always replicate myself together with those institutions." -felix gonzalez-torres

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Joseph Beuys | Social Sculpture

“Only on condition of a radical widening of definitions will it be possible for art and activities related to art [to] provide evidence that art is now the only evolutionary-revolutionary power. Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build ‘A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART’… EVERY HUMAN BEING IS AN ARTIST who – from his state of freedom – the position of freedom that he experiences at first-hand – learns to determine the other positions of the TOTAL ART WORK OF THE FUTURE SOCIAL ORDER.”

Fundred.org | Mel Chin

Grads, go to this link http://fundred.org and download the template to draw your own fundred. Bring the fundred to class next week. 

Safehouse

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

Post Post

post-modernism
post-industrial
post-renaissance
post-fordism
post-war
post-wwII
post-911
post-evangelical
post-impressionism
post-colonialism
post-history
post-mao
post-post
post-marxism
post-facto
post-humanism
post-feminism
post-human
post-grad
post-bac
post-apartheid
post-class
post-black
post-queer
post-hippie
post-punk
post-bellum
post-google
post-painterly abstraction
post-jungiam
post-minimalism
post-matrix
post-islamist
post-sputnik
post-capitalism
post-utopia
post-MTV
post-creation
post-mortem
post-operative
post-apocalyptic
post-contact (1491)
post-adolesence
post-enlightenment
post-millenial
post-pop
post-production

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

unhappy hipsters will give you a giggle. - via lis janes