Category Archives: Uncategorized
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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. -
Reading Poetry while on a Camping Trip
Reading poetry while camping gives me the space to enjoy every word.
This entry was posted on August 9, 2012 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, Poetry, Uncategorized. -
My May 1st
May 1 Seattle creativity, resistance, and hope echo our current world
This entry was posted on May 2, 2012 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
The #Occupy Movement: Conversations
This blog marks my exciting experiences with the early stages of the Occupy movement, before the police in the service of the oligarchy started using pepper spray and obliteration tactics. You can see I look really happy here. I was on the road lecturing on my book and I was able to visit five Occupy […]
This entry was posted on November 19, 2011 and is filed under #Occupy movement, Uncategorized. -
Istanbul Biennial 2011
This is the beginning of my analysis of the Istanbul Biennial which has the title “untitled” based on the work of Felix Gonzalez-Torres, who titled his work “Untitled” then added a parenthesis with a particular reference. In the Istanbul Biennial 2011, the curators made five group shows with the following references untitled(abstraction), untitled(Ross), untitled (history) […]
This entry was posted on September 24, 2011 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Protesting Greed
Getting these banners in the air was not easy. Making these banners at the Action Camp on Vashon was fun, but it helped to be with experts. First we figured out what we were going to say. Then we projected giant letters ( 8 feet high) onto Tyco fabric painted orange, then we cut it […]
This entry was posted on August 30, 2011 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Dia al Azzawi’s monument to academics assasinated in Iraq
As of last August 2010 304 University academics have been killed in Iraq, most of them professionally assassinated. Many of them had spoken out against the occupation. That number only includes academics, it does not include the staff that belongs to other fields and institutions, who have been targeting since the beginning of the occupation, […]
This entry was posted on May 27, 2011 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Cultural Activism in a Time of Crisis, the exhibition
It is a time to return to blogging after the excitement of the book publication and the art exhibition. What better way than to analyze why the show “Cultural Activism in a Time of Crisis” is so exciting. As I have been giving people tours, I realized that all of these artists, whom I have […]
This entry was posted on April 25, 2011 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Nick Cave hits Seattle
Nick Cave costumes for performance joyful celebration of
creativity or political statement about moving beyond prejudice?This entry was posted on March 15, 2011 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire: An Exhibition
Response to Tirangle Factory Fire
This entry was posted on February 18, 2011 and is filed under Uncategorized. -
Art and Politics Now is published!
The book is launched!
This entry was posted on January 26, 2011 and is filed under Uncategorized.
