7 March 2006 | Contemporary, Museums
Should Britain regulate the export of contemporary art? Peter Aspden writes that currently “works have to be at least 50 years old for Waverley [rules] to apply. Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin, the Chapman brothers: their work sidles silently across the border, and there is nothing we can do about it. Good riddance, I hear many [...]
7 March 2006 | Contemporary, Museums
Savannah’s Telfair Museum of Art, due to unveil its new Moshe Safdie-designed building this Friday, will also feature “a permanent group of 20 works on paper [donated] by well-known artists who knew the late Varnedoe, a Savannah native and art historian who for 14 years curated painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art [...]
3 March 2006 | Contemporary, News, Teaching
Though he starts his new Yale job this July, he’ll teach one more semester at NYU’s IFA this fall and then switch to adjunct status. (And he’ll continue supervising dissertations in progress.) Speculation has of course already begun swirling as to his likely successor at IFA…
2 March 2006 | Contemporary, Museums, News
Contributor Anne Byrd writes: “Politics are especially prominent at this year’s Whitney Biennial: the first work that visitors see is Rirkrit Tiravanija’s and Mark di Suvero’s Peace Tower, clad in antiwar paintings. Explicitly political works inside the museum include Richard Serra’s “Stop Bush” poster and video documentations of Steve Kurtz’s interventions. Several artists address racial [...]
1 March 2006 | Contemporary
Robert Storr will start overseeing Yale’s studio program this July. Presumably he’ll continue organizing the 2007 Venice Biennial and curating shows for the Philadelphia Museum, but it seems hard to imagine he’ll also keep teaching art history at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.
26 February 2006 | Conferences, Contemporary, News
Contributor Daniel Belasco reports: “My concluding remarks, on the discussion of international contemporary art at CAA, will necessarily reflect my experience as a panelist here, my first. (Went well, thank you very much, even though my Powerpoint lost a few hi-res images in the translation from PC to Mac … a metaphor for things to [...]
17 February 2006 | Contemporary
Historians of kinetic outsider art are taking note of Art Cars, a web resource that has become rich with photographs, details on materials and techniques, biographies, and links to art car makers.
15 February 2006 | Books, Contemporary
The Winter 2006 October features questions posed by Hal Foster to the authors of Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle in a New Age of War (2005), together with their responses. “Has the state truly come ‘to live and die by its investment in, and control of, the field of images?’”
