• Home
• Art Historian
  • Biography
  • Curriculum Vitae
  • Research Articles
  • Art and Politics Now Cultural Activism in a Time of Crisis
  • Art and Politics Then and Now (Denver)
  • Art and Politics in the 1930s
  • Exposing the Invisible Art About Detention
  • Modernism in the 1920s
  • Book Projects: Collected Writings
• Blog
• Art Critic
  • Reviews of Exhibitions in US since 1982
  • Art Exhibitions Outside the US
  • Book Reviews
• Curator
  • Immigration: Hopes Realized, Dreams Derailed
  • Liberty Denied: Immigration, Detention, Deportation An exhibition
  • Art Exhibition “Cultural Activism in a Time of Crisis”
  • Selma Waldman “The Pornography of Power”
  • “War is Trauma” exhibition
• Migration Project
  • Fulgencio Lazo: In Celebration of Immigrant Workers
  • Internalized Borders at John Jay School of Criminal Justice
  • Artists Protest Immigration Policy: A Brief History
  • Essays on Immigration
  • Immigration: Hopes Realized, Dreams Derailed
  • Migration Now portfolio by Just Seeds and Culture Strike
  • Grassroots Protests at the Tacoma Detention Center
  • “Liberty Denied: Immigration, Detention, Deportation” an exhibition
  • Migration: Tatiana Garmendia, Cecilia Alvarez, Deborah Faye Lawrence

Category Archives: Venice

1. West of the Caspian Sea “Love Me Love Me Not” Azerbaijan in Venice

   Azerbaijan had two pavilions in Venice, “Love Me Love Me Not,” reached out to its neighbors and was steeped in contemporary theory, the other focused on the straightforward theme of “Ornamentation,” but both enhanced our understanding of the contemporary art from this region.

   This entry was posted on December 10, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Venice, Venice Biennale.

   Tags: "Love Me Love Me Not", Afruz Amighi, Aida Mahmudova, Baku, Farid Rasulov, Kutluğ Ataman, Rashad Alakbarov, Shoja Azari, Slavs and Tartars, Yarat

2. “A Mad Dash through the African Pavilions at the Venice Biennale” by Pamela Allara

   I am thrilled to offer you today my first Guest Blogger African Art Specialist Pamela Allara, Ph.D. with an overview of the African Art Pavilions at the Venice Biennale   This year’s Venice Biennale was one of the best I have ever seen, and I have gone intermittently since 1964 when the U.S. pavilion, featuring […]

   This entry was posted on November 25, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Uncategorized, Venice, Venice Pavilion.

   Tags: Angola, Cote d'Ivoire, Edson Chagas, Imaginary Fact: Contemporary South African Art and the Archive., Jems Robert Koto Bi, Joanne Bloch, Kenya, Michele Mathison, Paula Nascimento, South Africa Pavilion, Stefano Raboli Pansera., Sue Williamson, Venice Biennale, Virginia Chihota, Wim Botha, Zanele Muhole, Zimbabwe

3. Sarah Sze “Triple Point” The US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale

   Sarah Sze’s pavilion in Venice is a perfect metaphor of the disintegration of the US sense of itself.

   This entry was posted on November 18, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art of Democracy, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized, Venice, Venice Biennale.

   Tags: "Sarah Sze Triple Point", US Pavilion 2013, Venice Biennale

4. 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.

   Tags: "The Encyclopedic Palace" Il Palazzo Encyclopeida, "Venice Biennale 2013", Arthur Bispo de Rosario, Carl Jung, Danh Vo, Genesis, J.D.Okhai Ojeikere, Jack Whitten, Marino Auriti, Massimiliano Gioni, Robert Crumb, Roberto Cuoghi, Ron Nagle, Rosalio Biscotti, Tino Seghal

• Contact Me
• Follow Blog