Monthly Archives: March 2010

Anna Deavere Smith

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Anna Deveare Smith’s innovative work overlaps multiple genres; her one-woman performances interweave elements drawn verbatim from journalistic interviews she conducts on topics such as immigration, racial tension, domestic violence, and health care.
Links:
http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/s/anna_deavere_smith/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Deavere_Smith
http://www.americanprogress.org/pressroom/releases/2009/04/anna_deveare_smith.html

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Wangechi Mutu

Wangechi Mutu (b.1972, Nairobi, Kenya) is an artist who lives and works in New York. She moved to New York in the 1990s to study anthropology and fine art at Cooper Union (BFA, 1996), and Yale University (MFA, 2000).[1]
She creates painted and collaged images of female figures, first painting outline images on PET film, then [...]

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Einstürzende Neubauten

Einstürzende Neubauten are the Rolling Stones (only sexier, more talented, and more intelligent) of German experimental music, having been performing and recording for over 30 years. Remarkably, even after all this time, they continue to innovate and grow.
To our jaded ears, Einstürzende Neubauten might sound a little less impressive than they actually are. After all, [...]

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Chuck Welsh

Chuck Welch, otherwise known in the mail art network as the Crackerjack Kid, has been an active participant in the international mail art network since 1978. Welch is a Fulbright recipient (1976) and an NEA Hilda Maehling Fellow (1981) who has written extensively about mail art. Networking Currents was self-published by Welch in 1985 and the [...]

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Alsyon Shotz

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Robert Smithson

 Robert Smithson
Essay:
Cultural Confinement by Robert Smithson

 

Cultural confinement takes place when a curator imposes his own limits on an art exhibition , rather than asking an artist to set his limits. Artists are expected to fit into fraudulent categories. Some artists imagine they’ve got a hold on this apparatus, which in fact has got a hold [...]

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John Dahlsen environmental Artist

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“Creating a Sense of Oneness” by Louise Buyo and Jim Hall

In the mid-nineties, Dahlsen was gathering driftwood on the Victorian Coastline for a furniture project when he found huge amounts of plastic litter washed up along the shore. The artist accumulated 80 bags of the garbage and dragged them to his studio to begin his [...]

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Agnes Denes

One of the early pioneers of both the environmental art movement and Conceptual art, Agnes Denes brings her wide ranging interests in the physical and social sciences, mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, poetry and music to her delicate drawings, books and monumental artworks around the globe.
In 1982, she carried out what has become one of the best-known [...]

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John Baldessari

Throughout his career, John Baldessari has defied formalist categories by working in a variety of media—creating films, videotapes, prints, photographs, texts, drawings, and multiple combinations of these. In his use of media imagery, Baldessari is a pioneer “image appropriator,” and as such has had a profound impact on post-modern art production. Baldessari initially studied to [...]

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Lauren Kalman

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Lauren Kalman creates a very intersting dialog between tradition and the body.  Her works are beautifully thought out and pleasurable to read/see/view/absorb.  The following is an excerpt from her bio on her website:
She hopes to use her art to affect social thought. By creating objects and images that are unconventional in their relationship to the [...]

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