Tag Archives: contemporary art

In search of new audiences

March 28, 2008 – 6:14

txt: Biennale Art 52nd International Art Exhibition
The 52nd Exhibition also features another new initiative emblematic of the spirit with which the Biennale relates to the international art world. During the course of 2006, the Organisational Division of the Biennale di Venezia initiated a forward-looking dialogue with Art 38 Basel, documenta 12, skulptur projekte [...]

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Life is More Important Than Art

January 22, 2008 – 21:48

txt: e-flux - Life is More Important Than Art
Life is More Important Than Art is published by Ostrich, a not-for-profit arts agency concerned with challenging and revealing the prevailing attitudes, consensus and modes of cultural production, with a specific focus on contemporary visual art. The book is designed by Dean Pavitt at LOUP.
Art is the [...]

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What was capitalism and what comes next?

December 20, 2007 – 10:55

oddtag: I haven’t read the magazine, but these questions (it’s always the questions the best clues) caught me..
txt: www.pavilionmagazine.org - What was socialism, and what comes next - issue 10/11
via: e-flux.com
The changes of 1989 did more than disturb western complacency about the “new world order” and preempt the imagined fraternity of a new European [...]

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Manhattan transfer Museum

December 1, 2007 – 0:32

New Museum - 235 Bowery, New York, NY 10002
link from: www.newmuseum.org

The New Museum of Contemporary Art, designed by Tokyo-based architects Kazuyo Sejima and Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA with Gensler, New York, serving as Executive Architect, is a seven-story, structure located at 235 Bowery between Stanton and Rivington Streets, at the origin of Prince Street in New York [...]

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The World Wide Warhol Economy

October 30, 2007 – 12:36

from: Princeton University Press: intro to The Warhol Economy: How Fashion, Art, and Music Drive New York City - by Elizabeth Currid
In The Warhol Economy, Elizabeth Currid argues that creative industries like fashion, art, and music drive the economy of New York as much as–if not more than–finance, real estate, and law. And these creative [...]

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Where the decades has no name

October 16, 2007 – 15:46

One director, two ubercurators, 60 players among curators and artists, 4 venues for a decade without name. On y va!
The 2000s – The history of a decade that has not yet been named
“Are we victims of our own search engines, which play up the information atavism and naturally stress immediate communication at the expense [...]

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And the Work of Art in the Age of Internet?

April 19, 2007 – 19:53

“Distraction as provided by art presents a covert control of the extent to which new tasks have become soluble by apperception. Since, moreover, individuals are tempted to avoid such tasks, art will tackle the most difficult and most important ones where it is able to mobilize the masses.
Today it does so in the film. Reception [...]

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