Category Archives: Art and Politics Now
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The Elephant in the Room: “Stereotype” and other exhibitions by African American Artists in Seattle
Exploring C. Davida Ingram’s exhibition “Stereotype” as well as briefer reference to powerhouse artists , La Toya Ruby Frazier and Marita Dingus,
This entry was posted on March 13, 2014 and is filed under Arican American history, Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Black HIstory Month, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
“Our America” Abstraction and Identity
Is abstraction an elite practice that denies identity? Abstract art is rarely what it seems to be. To stop at a formal analysis of such work misses its context, meaning and significance.
This entry was posted on March 10, 2014 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Latino Art, Uncategorized. -
“Our America: The Latino Presence in American Art:” A Radical Proposal`
An analysis of the thesis of the stunning exhibition of “America Now The Latino Presence in American Art” at the Smithsonian American Art Museum: integrating these artists in the mainstream of American art history.
This entry was posted on February 14, 2014 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Chicana Artists, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
ANTONI TÀPIES 1923 – 2012
Antoni Tàpies Catalan Master and political activist throughout his life. His grand and beautiful paintings and material objects always have a subtext of the anguish of the Franco years and concern for the injustice of the wars of the 21st century.
This entry was posted on January 3, 2014 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in War, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized. -
East of the Caspian Sea Central Asia in Venice
Central Asia at the Venice Biennale
This entry was posted on December 12, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Uncategorized, Women Artists. -
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. -
HONORING ANTHONY CARO 1924-2013
Anthony Caro ( 1924 – 2013, an homage to a great twentieth century artist who, in spite of his fame, and well known abstractions has another less explored side.
This entry was posted on December 5, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, Contemporary Art, Modern Sculpture, Venice Biennale. -
“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. -
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. -
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. -
“Here is Where We Jump,” El Museo del Barrio’s La Bienal 2013
“Here is Where We Jump” Museo del Barrio La Bienal full of young Latino/a artists working in experimental media. The blog explores where is cultural identity today?
This entry was posted on September 21, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Ethnicity, Latino Art, Uncategorized. -
Part II Haida Gwaii: Thanks, But No Tanks
Thanks No Tanks an art exhibition in Haida Gwaii, BC, protests plans for oil tankers of tar sands to pass through Hecate Straits. The Haida are protesting with body, mind and spirit. The coastal ecology is the same as Puget Sound, where the tankers are also proposed to pass by.
This entry was posted on August 28, 2013 and is filed under Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, ecology, economic imperialism vs democracy, First Nations Art, Gulf Oil Spill. -
Buster Simpson// Surveyor
Buster Simpson’s retrospective at the Frye Art Museum in context,: conceptual art, meets Marcel Duchamp
This entry was posted on August 21, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art of Democracy, ecology, Uncategorized. -
Part I Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) Tradition Resurrected
Part I of Haida Gwai touches on the amazing culture of the Haida and its recent revival.
This entry was posted on August 13, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
Art and Politics at the Seattle International Film Festival
Compelling films from Egypt and elsewhere in the Middle East as well as two form the US shed light on international politics in intimate ways as a counter to news cliches.
This entry was posted on July 10, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in Beirut, Art in War, Art of Democracy, Film, Uncategorized. -
Eleanor Harvey’s groundbreaking exhibition The Civil War and American Art
What we can learn from this art in the midst of the national trauma of the Civil War : I celebrate Eleanor Jones Harvey interpretations of Civil War paintings and photographs in her excellent exhibition and book “The Civil War and American Art”.
This entry was posted on July 3, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, Art in War, Civil War, Uncategorized. -
Under my Skin Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century
Under My Skin Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century at the Wing Luke Museum includes a stimulating and poetic group of worksby 26 artists in many media. IT is not to be missed and more than one visit is neciessary.
This entry was posted on June 16, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, indians, Racism, Uncategorized. -
Beyond G(u)ernica and Bilbao: Contemporary Culture in the Basque Country
Contemporary art in the Basque country has a long history before Bilbao and after.
This entry was posted on May 15, 2013 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Feminism, Uncategorized. -
Out [o] Fashion at the Henry Art Gallery
Deborah Willis “Out O Fashion Photography: Embracing Beauty” at the Henry Art Gallery changes the way we see photographs and shakes up our preconceived ideas.
This entry was posted on April 6, 2013 and is filed under Arican American history, Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism. -
“Idle No More” and other Protests
Protests of Keystone XL, coal trains, fracking, and the biggest oil presence in our lives explained at the Burke Museum in “Plastics Unwrapped”
This entry was posted on February 19, 2013 and is filed under a green future?, Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Feminism. -
My imaginary interview with Amy Goodman on Culture and Resistance
Democracy Now in honor of the New Year had a program called “Culture of Resistance”, but it omitted visual artists and many voices. I wrote an imaginary interview with Amy Goodman to fill the gap.
This entry was posted on January 1, 2013 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Art in War, Art of Democracy. -
“Living as Form” and the Hemispheric Institute: Two approaches to art and politics
Creative Time Summits (here is the schedule of the upcoming Summit) are a primary place for the discussion of socially engaged artistic practices. Laurie Jo Reynolds (above) is one artist who has been featured several times for her important work, moving from an artist working with prisoners at Tamms Supermax Prison, to a political activist […]
This entry was posted on September 15, 2012 and is filed under #Occupy movement, Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now. -
The Inheritors: An Exhibition by Jo Hockenhull
We are embedded in the natural world inside and out, organs and bones; we are in and of the bird world, the animal world, the world of insects; some of those creatures are going to survive the human species, in the end because of our obliviousness to our place in the world. […]
This entry was posted on September 10, 2012 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Ecology, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
The Pinter Festival at ACT
This is just a quick acknowledgement of a brilliant playwright and a thank you to the ACT theater for staging a Pinter Festival this summer. Harold Pinter stylistically can be placed between Samuel Beckett and Tom Stoppard in the British Theater. He lived from 1930 – 2008 and received the Nobel Prize for Literature […]
This entry was posted on August 27, 2012 and is filed under Art and Activism, Art and Politics Now, Uncategorized. -
Reading Poetry while on a Camping Trip
Reading poetry while camping gives me the space to enjoy every word.
This entry was posted on August 9, 2012 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, Poetry, Uncategorized.
