#Hashtags: The Painting
#representation #WhitneyMuseum #EmmettTill #DanaSchutz #MartinBerger #race #civilrights So much hinges on the question of audience. Who is presumed to engage with artwork, and on what terms? In the...
View ArticleFrom the Archives – #Hashtags: Mimics and Minstrels
In light of the current controversy over Dana Schutz’s painting of Emmett Till, today we’re re-reading Anu Vikram’s essay about the last Whitney Biennial, in which Joe Scanlan’s use of the fictional...
View ArticleFrom the Archives – Black Chronicles II at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
“New struggles for civil and race rights continue to challenge and mine the unequal fields of representation within American political life.” So writes author Jordan Amirkhani, who explored this...
View ArticleThe Guerrilla Girls and La Barbe at mfc-michèle didier
After thirty years of the Guerrilla Girls presenting statistics that repeatedly show the underrepresentation and misrepresentation of women in public collections, museums, and galleries around the...
View ArticleLetter from the Executive Director: Living the Art World We Make
Since I took on the role of Executive Director of Daily Serving and Art Practical, working with an administrative staff of four fierce, intersectional, women-identified cultural producers, I have been...
View ArticleAlina Szapocznikow: Human Landscape(s) at Galerie Loevenbruck
Owing to the success of her figurative work as well as her 2012 retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Polish artist Alina Szapocznikow is widely recognized for her uncanny...
View ArticleAdam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible at Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans
Curated by Dr. Andrea Andersson, Adam Pendleton: Becoming Imperceptible is the most extensive museum presentation of the artist’s work to date—a significant triumph for a cultural institution located...
View ArticleBlack Chronicles II at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art
Born on the Danish island colony of Saint Croix with two generations of slaves behind him, the champion heavyweight boxer Peter Jackson cuts a lean and noble figure in his 1889 photographic portrait,...
View ArticleQuestion Bridge: Black Males in America
Today we bring you an excerpt from Art Practical’s Printed Matters column. Roula Seikaly reviews Question Bridge: Black Males in America, the published companion to a project, platform, and...
View ArticleKehinde Wiley: A New Republic at Seattle Art Museum
A New Republic at Seattle Art Museum is Kehinde Wiley’s second solo exhibition organized by the Brooklyn Museum. In his brief fifteen-year career, Wiley has quickly become an established cultural...
View ArticleMN Original: Greta McLain
Today from our friends at MN Original, we bring you an inspiring video on Greta McLain and her work with murals and communities. The artist says, “The mural is not making the change. The mural is...
View ArticleFan Mail: Lorella Paleni
Lorella Paleni is always creating something that exists just over the horizon of awareness. Her works comprise a series of visual heuristics to nowhere, showing the viewer a picture plan filled with...
View ArticleFan Mail: Rachel Foster
Rachel Foster’s work inhabits an enigmatic territory in which image and object merge. Her screen prints are composed with subtle colors, unexpectedly cropped images, and positive and negative space....
View ArticleFan Mail: Jered Sprecher
For artist Jered Sprecher, painting is a medium for conveying the tensions between the abstract and the concrete. His works are balanced between the painterly and the conceptual; in the catalog for his...
View ArticleAyana V. Jackson: Archival Impulse at 33 Orchard
Ayana V. Jackson’s exhibition An Archival Impulse claims to take inspiration from Hal Foster’s idea that, through confronting the archive, new systems of knowledge can be created. Jackson’s artistic...
View ArticleSummer Reading: Picturing the Self in the Age of Data
As the editors of Art Practical and Daily Serving get ready to take their end-of-summer vacations, we find ourselves swapping reading lists—the articles we’ll dive into once have some uninterrupted...
View Article#Hashtags: Mimics and Minstrels
#access #discrimination #appropriation #institutions #representation #re-performance Two important events transpired in the art world last week that have brought the complications of diversity and...
View Article#Hashtags: The Global in the Local
#globalization #museums #access #representation #decolonization #history A recent conference at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, “Collecting Geographies—Global Programming and Museums of Modern Art,”...
View Article#Hashtags: The Social and the Political
#engagement #social practice #institutions #academia #authenticity #representation Berkeley has lately been abuzz with social practice of a politically conscious nature that befits the People’s...
View ArticleBest of 2013 – #Hashtags: On the Political in Art
As we continue our Best of 2013 series, today’s pick comes from Bean Gilsdorf, who writes, “As the managing editor of Daily Serving, I get to work with over thirty super-talented authors from around...
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