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Feminism and Performance: Joan Jonas and Gina Pane
Parellel Practices: Joan Jonas and Gina Pane at the Henry Art Gallery. The two artists have different roots, philosophies and trajectories.
This entry was posted on April 10, 2014 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Carletta Carrington Wilson “Unchain My Heart”
At the outset of her poetic presentation, Carletta Carrington Wilson declared that her exhibition “Unchain My Heart” (listen!) is a testament to mystery. Her exhibition at Art Xchange Gallery included selections from three series of works, “constellation of shadows and leaves” (2006) “Orange You Mingus” (2008-9), and “book of the bound” (2011-12). The artist explained […]
This entry was posted on April 5, 2014 and is filed under African American fiction, Arican American history, Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Black Art, Carletta Carrington Wilson, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
The Elephant in the Room: “Stereotype” and other exhibitions by African American Artists in Seattle
Exploring C. Davida Ingram’s exhibition “Stereotype” as well as briefer reference to powerhouse artists , La Toya Ruby Frazier and Marita Dingus,
This entry was posted on March 13, 2014 and is filed under Arican American history, Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Black HIstory Month, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
“Our America” Abstraction and Identity
Is abstraction an elite practice that denies identity? Abstract art is rarely what it seems to be. To stop at a formal analysis of such work misses its context, meaning and significance.
This entry was posted on March 10, 2014 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Latino Art, Uncategorized. -
“Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art:” A Radical Proposal`
An analysis of the thesis of the stunning exhibition of “America Now The Latino Presence in American Art” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum: integrating these artists in the mainstream of American art history.
This entry was posted on February 14, 2014 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Chicana Artists, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
ANTONI TÀPIES 1923 – 2012
Antoni Tàpies Catalan Master and political activist throughout his life. His grand and beautiful paintings and material objects always have a subtext of the anguish of the Franco years and concern for the injustice of the wars of the 21st century.
This entry was posted on January 3, 2014 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in War, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
East of the Caspian Sea Central Asia in Venice
Central Asia at the Venice Biennale
This entry was posted on December 12, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized, Women Artists. -
“A Mad Dash through the African Pavilions at the Venice Biennale” by Pamela Allara
I am thrilled to offer you today my first Guest Blogger African Art Specialist Pamela Allara, Ph.D. with an overview of the African Art Pavilions at the Venice Biennale This year’s Venice Biennale was one of the best I have ever seen, and I have gone intermittently since 1964 when the U.S. pavilion, featuring […]
This entry was posted on November 25, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Uncategorized, Venice, Venice Pavilion. -
Sarah Sze “Triple Point” The US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
Sarah Sze’s pavilion in Venice is a perfect metaphor of the disintegration of the US sense of itself.
This entry was posted on November 18, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art of Democracy, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized, Venice, Venice Biennale. -
English Magic
“English Magic” by Jeremy Deller, at the Venice Biennale, avoids taking a stand, but entertains us in the process.
This entry was posted on November 4, 2013 and is filed under art criticism, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
Obsessions in Venice
Obsessions produces hundreds of art works at the Venice Biennale
This entry was posted on November 2, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art of Democracy, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized, Venice, Venice Biennale. -
“Here is Where We Jump,” El Museo del Barrio’s La Bienal 2013
“Here is Where We Jump” Museo del Barrio La Bienal full of young Latino/a artists working in experimental media. The blog explores where is cultural identity today?
This entry was posted on September 21, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Ethnicity, Latino Art, Uncategorized. -
Buster Simpson// Surveyor
Buster Simpson’s retrospective at the Frye Art Museum in context,: conceptual art, meets Marcel Duchamp
This entry was posted on August 21, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art of Democracy, ecology, Uncategorized. -
Part I Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) Tradition Resurrected
Part I of Haida Gwai touches on the amazing culture of the Haida and its recent revival.
This entry was posted on August 13, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
Art and Politics at the Seattle International Film Festival
Compelling films from Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East as well as two form the US shed light on international politics in intimate ways as a counter to news cliches.
This entry was posted on July 10, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in Beirut, Art in War, Art of Democracy, Film, Uncategorized. -
Eleanor Harvey’s groundbreaking exhibition The Civil War and American Art
What we can learn from this art in the midst of the national trauma of the Civil War : I celebrate Eleanor Jones Harvey interpretations of Civil War paintings and photographs in her excellent exhibition and book “The Civil War and American Art”.
This entry was posted on July 3, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, Art in War, Civil War, Uncategorized. -
Under my Skin Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century
Under My Skin Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century at the Wing Luke Museum includes a stimulating and poetic group of worksby 26 artists in many media. IT is not to be missed and more than one visit is neciessary.
This entry was posted on June 16, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, indians, Racism, Uncategorized. -
Beyond G(u)ernica and Bilbao: Contemporary Culture in the Basque Country
Contemporary art in the Basque country has a long history before Bilbao and after.
This entry was posted on May 15, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Lynn Hershmann Leeson !Women Art Revolution The Movie
Lynn Hershmann Leeson Women Art Revolution tells the canonical history of US feminist art. Where are the other histories of feminist art?
This entry was posted on January 16, 2013 and is filed under Feminism, Feminism, Uncategorized, Women Artists. -
“New Geographies of Feminist Art: China, Asia+the World” A Symposium in Seattle
New Geographies of Feminist Art: China, Asia+ the World raises important questions about feminism today and presented some crucial artists.
This entry was posted on December 21, 2012 and is filed under Contemporary Art, ecology, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
“Elles” and Beyond: Women Artists Take on the World
Art by Women everywhere in Seattle provokes us to think about what they are saying about themselves and the world.
This entry was posted on November 25, 2012 and is filed under Art and Activism, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Iranian Women, Israel Palestine, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Seattle Art, Seattle Art Museum, Shirin Neshat, Uncategorized. -
Negar Farajiani Puzzles of Meanings
Contemporary Art from Iran in Seattle, Nagar Farjiani as cultural peacemaker
This entry was posted on October 25, 2012 and is filed under Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
The Inheritors: An Exhibition by Jo Hockenhull
We are embedded in the natural world inside and out, organs and bones; we are in and of the bird world, the animal world, the world of insects; some of those creatures are going to survive the human species, in the end because of our obliviousness to our place in the world. […]
This entry was posted on September 10, 2012 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
The Pinter Festival at ACT
This is just a quick acknowledgement of a brilliant playwright and a thank you to the ACT theater for staging a Pinter Festival this summer. Harold Pinter stylistically can be placed between Samuel Beckett and Tom Stoppard in the British Theater. He lived from 1930 – 2008 and received the Nobel Prize for Literature […]
This entry was posted on August 27, 2012 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
Aborignial Paintings Preserve Ancestral Dreams and Maybe the Future as Well
Aboriginal Paintings tell us about survival, history, mythology, dreaming, and morality by being part of the natural world
This entry was posted on August 16, 2012 and is filed under a green future?, Art and Ecology, ecology, Uncategorized.
