Ordway Winners Announced
Hazma Walker, writer/curator, and Polish video artist Artur Zmijewski are the winners of the 2010 Ordway Prize. The award, named for naturalist, philanthropist and arts patron Katherine Ordway, comes with an unrestricted $100,000 cash prize. It acknowledges the contributions of a mid-career curator/arts writer and artist whose work has had significant impact on the field…
New Chief for Frick Reference Library
The Frick Collection announces the appointment of Dr. Stephen J. Bury to the post of Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian and the Frick Art Reference Library. Dr Bury has been at the British Library, the national library of the United Kingdom, as the Deputy Director and Head of European and American Collections, Maps, Music and…
Joan Mitchell Remembered in a Three-Day Symposium
A three-day symposium in New Orleans celebrates the life and work of Joan Mitchell April 9-11, 2010. Co-organized by Tulane University’s Newcomb Art Gallery and the Joan Mitchell Foundation, this gathering will feature art historians, friends of Mitchell and film screenings. Additionally, three exhibitions bring together the three major bodies of her work: paintings at…
Artists Design Themes for Google’s Chrome Browser
Chrome, Google’s flashy new web browser, is now offering themes designed by artists such as Jeff Koons, Jenny Holzer, Tom Sachs and Dale Chihuly. What’s a theme? It’s the thing behind the webpages you are looking at. All you usually see is that little strip on top, a gray bar. New themes by artists, designers…
Bushwick SITE Fest set for March 6 and 7
Arts in Bushwick celebrates the diversity of live art with SITE Fest: a rollicking two-day, multi-venue interdisciplinary art festival on Saturday and Sunday, March 6-7. Now in its second year, SITE investigates the Brooklyn neighborhood’s amazing variety of theater, dance, music and performance art enacted in an urban setting. SITE Fest will take place at…
Jack the Pelican to fly no more
The gallery scene in Williamsburg will get less colorful in a few weeks as, after eight years, Jack the Pelican Presents is closing its doors. When asked by artcritical about this decision, owner and former art critic Don Carroll gave the expected answer: economic downturn, drop in sales, and increased rent. In addition, due to…
Panel Discussion at MIT examines Performative Art
The MIT List Visual Art Center presents The Annual Max Wasserman Forum on Contemporary Art. This year’s forum, titled Parody, Politics and Performativity, brings together several practicing artists and experts on performative practices. The 2010 Wasserman Forum will include a panel discussion with artists Tino Sehgal, Tania Bruguera and the collective artist Claire Fontaine, moderated by…
Symposium explores Artists in Wartime
Swarthmore College presents Artists in Wartime: Bearing Witness / Shaping a Response,series of events consisting of two concurrent exhibitions, a symposium and poetry reading that explore the role of contemporary artists who focus on war and other crises of politics on Saturday, March 20. The symposium, moderated by Janine Mileaf, Assistant Professor of Art History at…
Demons, Yarns & Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists at James Cohan Gallery
Among thirteen tapestries commissioned from contemporary artists, the most interesting are those in which the medium adds a level of meaning to the image.
