April 2009
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“Critical Theory: It’s like a stain you can’t get out.”
– Laconomics! The brilliance that is Kate Moore just made me miss San Francisco. According to the word on the street, this has become the official motto of California College of the Arts’ Visual and Critical Studies program, coffee mugs and all. Nice.
Apr 30th
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TONIGHT: Listen to PILOT on WXBC Bard College...
PILOT Bartholomew Ryan’s CCS Bard thesis project on WXBC Bard College Radio PROGRAM ONE: Manifesto History and Theory TUESDAY, April 28, 8-10 PM EST History and theory of the manifesto form with Bartholomew and modernism scholar Janet Lyon. The program will include recordings of political and/ or art-based manifestos performed at Bard College Campus on April 13, 2009. Appearances by...
Apr 28th
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Pierre Bourdieu, Tim Geithner, and Cultural... →
Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Bourdieu, Bourdieu, Bourdieu.
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Why We Read  →
Writers reflect on the solace found in reading. Thinking back to being very, very small, I recall summers spent lost in books like Frances Hodgson Burnett’s The Secret Garden, or Anne Frank’s diary — all narratives built around private places. Reading is a way of accessing our most secret selves (as is writing, for me).
Apr 28th
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AiA Online Week(s) in Review: 14-28 April
Art in America 2.0: + Reference Material: Mario Garci­a Torres in Conversation (Christopher Fitzpatrick) + Popular Mechanics: Walead Beshty (Steve Pulimood) + The Pictures Generation: A Conversation with Douglas Ecklund (Jess Wilcox) + Rose Art Museum’s Meryl Rose Speaks Out Against Brandeis Claims (Paddy Johnson) + Virtual Sketchbook: Sanford Biggers’s Conundrum (Mary...
Apr 28th
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Apr 14th
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The Making of Samuel Beckett →
In the New York Review of Books, J.M. Coetzee writes on a volume of Beckett’s letters, The Letters of Samuel Beckett, Volume 1: 1929–1940, recently published by Cambridge University Press.
Apr 13th
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AiA Online Week in Review: 6-11 April 2009
Art in America 2.0: + Walking on Air: A Conversation With Richard Tuttle (Piper Marshall) + Chewing Candy: A Glossary (Mary Walling Blackburn) + There Will Be Time: A Conversation with Julieta Aranda (Sarah Hromack) + The Scene: Younger Than Jesus after party at Boucarou
Apr 13th
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“The art work neither articulates its intimacy with nature and origins, nor does...”
– Marcus Steinweg’s, essay “23 Theses on art, Philosophy, Truth, and Subjectivity,” was recently published in the exhibition catalog for Berlin: 2000, which remains on view at Pace Wildenstein through 18 April. This particular passage, thesis number 22, is particularly pertinent...
Apr 13th
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Portrait of Misogyny →
Published today in The American Prospect, Kriston Capps reads Paul H.O.’s “Guest of Cindy Sherman” as an exercise in all-too-pervasive art world misogyny.
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