I just did a guest blog post on Art21, the PBS project about contemporary art. Check it out here or see the text pasted below: This post is written as a dispatch from California, where I was at the College Art Association conference and speaking in classes at CalArts, SFAI, and the CCA Social Practices [...]
Archive for the ‘Essays’ Category
Art and Community post on Art21 Blog
Posted in Blabs, Essays, Writing In/By/About AREA Chicago, tagged AREA Chicago, Art21, CAA, Chris Carlsson, Department of Space and Land Reclamation on March 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Chicago Art Series: Article #2 on Groups and Spaces
Posted in Essays, tagged Brendan McGaffey, Brett Bloom, CAFF, Chicago County Fair, Chicago Freedom School, Coop Image Group, Feel Tank, Goat Island, Golden Gage, Haha, Kuumba Lynx, Lucky Pierre, Marc Fischer, Melinda Fries, Mess Hall, Midwest Radical Cultural Cooridor, No Coast, Pink Bloque, Rob Kelly, Salem Collo-Julin, Temporary Services, the Neofuturists, Theater Oobleck, University of Hip Hop, You Are Beautiful, Zena Sakowski on January 21, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Series Description: This series of five articles published in <H>Art Magazine in Belgium will be an introduction to Chicago, Illinois USA and it’s local critical cultural experimentation, written from the perspective of a magazine editor and curator committed to navigating the city. Look for three more articles in 2009 dealing with cultural institutions, art media [...]
Chicago Art Series: Article #1 on History
Posted in Essays, tagged AACM, Act UP Chicago, AFRICOBRA, Black Arts Movement, Calles y Suenos, Charles H. Kerr, Chicago Artist Boycott, Chicago Film Group, Chicago Imagists, Chicago Public Art Group, Chicago Surrealists, Chicago Womens Health Clinic, Chicago Womens Liberation Union, Christophe Büchel, Christopher Sperandio, Dan Peterman, Daniel J. Martinez, Experimental Station, Haha, Hairy Who, Hyde Park Art Center, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Insight Arts, Kartimquinn, Kate Ericson, Links Hall, Mark Dion, Mary Jane Jacobs, Media Burn, Mel Ziegler, NSK, Randolph Street Gallery, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Robert Peters, Simon Grennan, Street Level Youth Media, Superflex, Suzanne Lacy, Temporary Services, Theater Oobleck, Third World Press on December 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is the first in a five part series I will be writing about Chicago art for the Belgian art magazine H-Art. This first article appeared in their 44th issue in early December 2008. Series Description: Chicago Illinois USA is a place where people pass through and people settle. In terms of cultural work, it [...]
