Posts tagged Contemporary Art

#whoisaiweiwei? Here’s a still from @aiww’s video message to a packed house at the opening @imamuseum last night. (at Indianapolis Museum Of Art (IMA))

#whoisaiweiwei? Here’s a still from @aiww’s video message to a packed house at the opening @imamuseum last night. (at Indianapolis Museum Of Art (IMA))

A funny little video in which Robert Indiana talks about an inauthentic “LOVE” painting as part of The Madness of Art, a series I’ve not seen before. (via @imbprez)

Hear the Indianapolis Museum of Art’s senior curator, Lisa Freiman, talk about her work over the past 10 years at the IMA in this interview produced by WFYI. 

Something to check out at the University of Kentucky Hospital: Lina Tharsing’s installation of a group of six paintings that reference images from the creation of the dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.  These paintings have been installed at the Albert B. Chandler Hospital in Lexington, Kentucky.  (This is a UK Arts in Healthcare project.)

These paintings relate to her exhibition “Natural History” at Institute 193 in Lexington, Kentucky. She was recently interviewed about this work in Whitehot Magazine.  

absolumentmoderne: Ai Weiwei’s Straight taking shape in Indianapolis.  Come see the finished work after April 5. 

absolumentmoderne:

Ai Weiwei’s Straight taking shape in Indianapolis. 

Come see the finished work after April 5. 

picturestakeyouplaces: Lonnie Land (Atlanta, GA)

picturestakeyouplaces:

Lonnie Land (Atlanta, GA)

picturestakeyouplaces: Armageddon (Atlanta, GA) Looking forward to seeing this tomorrow.

picturestakeyouplaces:

Armageddon (Atlanta, GA)

Looking forward to seeing this tomorrow.

I know that this is meant to be a thought-provoking discussion but it seems to be preposterously absurd and a little sophomoric.  Of course art history is not dead and it’s not dying.  Evidence? You’re convening a discussion about it on your Tumblr! In the same way that journalism is not dead and not dying just because the way information is published has dramatically changed.  For one very recent example, my column this month on Art21’s blog features an art-historical based conversation around the need to preserve digital art and features a video that was recorded at the Museum Computer Network’s Annual Meeting with Anne Goodyear, a curator at the Smithsonian, Penelope Umbrico, an important artist whose practice is innovative and contemporary, Koven Smith, Director of Technology at DAM, and myself a conservator at the IMA.   How can you listen to that panel and think for a second that art history is dead?  It is alive, breathing, and running around in new and exciting ways. I would have much preferred a question asking how the way art history is being written and spoken is changing to be more open and available, and also much more interdisciplinary.   Finally, and though art conservators are not mentioned in this as someone they’d like to hear from, I want to say that today’s art conservators are uniquely positioned to convene relevant art historical discussions and projects that are centered on artworks, their preservation, fabrication, and material aspects.    thegetty: Is art history dead? Is the digital revolution passing art historians by? What is the future of publishing in art history? We’ll be exploring these topics next week on The Getty Iris, and we’re kicking off with a short Google+ Hangout, “Resuscitating Art History,” on Monday, March 4, at 4:00 p.m. PST. We’d like to hear from artists, students, art historians, authors, and, especially, art history grad students: Is there a question the field needs to address? A challenge you face? A radical idea art historians need to be for (or against)? Please let us know here, on Facebook, or via tweet to @thegetty (hashtag: #digitalhumanities). Books in the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. 010101 is a real book.

I know that this is meant to be a thought-provoking discussion but it seems to be preposterously absurd and a little sophomoric.  Of course art history is not dead and it’s not dying.  Evidence? You’re convening a discussion about it on your Tumblr!

In the same way that journalism is not dead and not dying just because the way information is published has dramatically changed. 

For one very recent example, my column this month on Art21’s blog features an art-historical based conversation around the need to preserve digital art and features a video that was recorded at the Museum Computer Network’s Annual Meeting with Anne Goodyear, a curator at the Smithsonian, Penelope Umbrico, an important artist whose practice is innovative and contemporary, Koven Smith, Director of Technology at DAM, and myself a conservator at the IMA.  

How can you listen to that panel and think for a second that art history is dead?  It is alive, breathing, and running around in new and exciting ways.

I would have much preferred a question asking how the way art history is being written and spoken is changing to be more open and available, and also much more interdisciplinary.  

Finally, and though art conservators are not mentioned in this as someone they’d like to hear from, I want to say that today’s art conservators are uniquely positioned to convene relevant art historical discussions and projects that are centered on artworks, their preservation, fabrication, and material aspects.   

thegetty:

Is art history dead? Is the digital revolution passing art historians by? What is the future of publishing in art history?

We’ll be exploring these topics next week on The Getty Iris, and we’re kicking off with a short Google+ Hangout, “Resuscitating Art History,” on Monday, March 4, at 4:00 p.m. PST.

We’d like to hear from artists, students, art historians, authors, and, especially, art history grad students: Is there a question the field needs to address? A challenge you face? A radical idea art historians need to be for (or against)? Please let us know here, on Facebook, or via tweet to @thegetty (hashtag: #digitalhumanities).

Books in the Research Library at the Getty Research Institute. 010101 is a real book.

Penelope Umbrico: The Edge of Vision Interview Series

C-Mon Giveaway Extravaganza: Tony Smith T-Shirt edition.

Want a shot to get your very own limited edition Tony Smith t-shirt?  Check out C-Monster’s t-shirt give away for your chance to get your hands on this hot commodity.  

If you can’t get one the free way, you can always earn one by writing a Wikipedia article about a Tony Smith sculpture.  I know it’s not easy for everyone to work in Wikipedia, but the t-shirt is definitely worth it.  

Check out my column on Art 21 for details about the project to document all of his sculptures for his 100th birthday.  Or listen to me explain why it’s important over on the Modern Art Notes Podcast.

Or just cut to the chase and learn about the project within Wikipedia.

An excellent video by the IMA’s Daniel Beyer about the new installation at the IMA, “Following Nature,” by Spencer Finch (curated by Sarah Green), and fabricated in house by all of the talented folks at and around the IMA.  

Day two of hanging the 160 panes glass for Spencer Finch’s installation in the IMA. (at Indianapolis Museum Of Art (IMA))

Day two of hanging the 160 panes glass for Spencer Finch’s installation in the IMA. (at Indianapolis Museum Of Art (IMA))

Winter at the IMA by IMA - Indianapolis Museum of Art on Flickr.Nice winter shot of the “Numbers”.

Winter at the IMA by IMA - Indianapolis Museum of Art on Flickr.

Nice winter shot of the “Numbers”.

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I’m thrilled to be included in this weeks Modern Art Notes Podcast and discussing INCCA-NA’s efforts to document ever single Tony Smith sculpture in the world using Wikipedia.  Have a listen!

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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Wolfgang Laib, who is installing two major works in the U.S. Laib will debut Pollen from Hazelnut in the atrium at the Museum of Modern Arton January 23. At 18 by 21 feet, it will be the largest pollen field he has made. Then the Phillips Collection will open the Laib Wax Room, a new permanent installation, on March 2. It will be the first permanent installation at the Phillips since the museum opened its Rothko Room in 1960.

Laib’s installations typically make use of natural materials such as different kinds of pollen, rice, wax, milk and marble. He has been the subject of numerous retrospectives, including an American retrospective organized by the American Federation of Arts that opened at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in 2000.

On the second segment, Richard McCoy, the conservator of objects and variable art at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, tells us about the International Network for the Conservation of Contemporary Art-North America’s Tony Smith Artist Research Project. INCCA-NA has created a project by which anyone may contribute to the documentation of Smith’s 83 outdoor sculptures on Wikipedia. Among the web pages we discuss are the Wikipedia list of Smith’s outdoor works, the page the project’s volunteers created for Smith’s Gracehoper (1962/88) and this art21 blog post, in which INCCA-NA offers a very cool t-shirt to anyone who contributes an entry to the project.

Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The Modern Art Notes Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud or RSS. See more images of art discussed on the program.

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