Category Archives: art criticism
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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. -
Goya’s Las Rinde el Sueño (Sleep Overcomes Them) and Que Pico de Oro (What a Golden Beak)
Goya speaks to our modern world of oppression of the poor, arrogance of the rich and their fawning followers as though he created Los Caprichos yesterday.
This entry was posted on July 19, 2013 and is filed under art criticism, Goya. -
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. -
Sopheap Pich revisited
Sopheap Pich makes stunning sculptures from rattan that are imbued with his Cambodian culture both present and past.
This entry was posted on June 22, 2013 and is filed under Art and Ecology, art criticism. -
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. -
Lynn Hershmann Leeson !Women Art Revolution The Movie
Lynn Hershmann Leeson Women Art Revolution tells the canonical history of US feminist art. Where are the other histories of feminist art?
This entry was posted on January 16, 2013 and is filed under Feminism, Feminism, Uncategorized, Women Artists. -
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. -
Women Artists in Seattle Part II
Women Photographers with roots in South Asia and Afghanistan show challenging work about cultural contradictions and Tanis S’eiltin, Tlinglit installation artist challenges fixed ideas on Indigenous culture.
This entry was posted on December 20, 2012 and is filed under art criticism, Conceptual Art, Contemporary Art, democracy, Feminism, Feminism, Gazelle Samizay, indians, Iran, Iranian Women, Photography, Women Artists. -
“Elles” and Beyond: Women Artists Take on the World
Art by Women everywhere in Seattle provokes us to think about what they are saying about themselves and the world.
This entry was posted on November 25, 2012 and is filed under Art and Activism, art criticism, Contemporary Art, Feminism, Iranian Women, Israel Palestine, Sandra Jackson-Dumont, Seattle Art, Seattle Art Museum, Shirin Neshat, Uncategorized. -
Holland Cotter and the New Language of Art Criticism
Cotter’s recent review of an exhibition of Joan Miro at the Museum of Modern Art was startling. He is consciously taking on the current political language of war and using it to apply to modern art. It works as an eye catching article, but why does it bother me so much? Here is an excerpt: […]
This entry was posted on November 4, 2008 and is filed under art criticism, Holland Cotter. -
Word into Art Artists of the Modern Middle East
Word into Art: Artists of the Modern Middle East at the British Museum explores the complexity of contemporary Middle Eastern culture from the perspective of the use of calligraphy and text.
This entry was posted on June 14, 2007 and is filed under Art and Politics Now, art criticism, Iraqi Art, Iraqi contemporary art, Uncategorized.
