By Taliesin Thomas
I have been visiting the Whitney Biennale since the mid-1990s. During the years I didn’t make the show in person, I read the reviews published in magazines such as Art in America and ArtNews. Over the decades I have observed a certain predictable trope: the show tanks—either conceptually, physically, or spiritually. Nevertheless, the show must [...]
The following interview between Todd Schroeder and KAYA took place throughout the month of October, 2020, initially through a series of emails followed by a final zoom meeting. The stimulus for the interview is an exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art in Savannah, GA-”KAYA: Under Ursus”that was curated by Ariella Wolens. The exhibition took place [...]
By John Valentine
The following article presents a debate about the distinction, if any, between art and craft. I have chosen the lead-in reference to the twin monsters that threatened Odysseus in Homer’s classic work The Odyssey, even though the philosophical debate about art and craft contains nothing threatening and is certainly not a matter of ‘choosing [...]
“Art history hasn’t shown much interest in the social and economic conditions of art and its relation to the history of the art market.”
In his latest book From Roman Feria to Global Art Fair, From Olympia Festival to Neo-liberal Biennial: On the “Biennialization” of Art Fairs and the “Fairization” of Biennials, curator and writer Paco [...]
By Michele Robecchi
About two years ago, an extraordinarily fortuitous circumstance occurred. Unbeknownst to one another, in the boardrooms of several art institutions scattered around the globe, staffers were having the same conversation at the same time. Whether initiated by people at the helm, team members or trustees interested enough to participate, it pretty much revolved around this basic question: [...]
By Paco Barragán
I accuse American and British academia and its members of purposely spreading a fake history of the origins of the modern museum. Still today, academics and other art professionals carry the wrong idea of the modern museum and wrongly think of the “white cube” as an American invention authored by MoMA and Alfred Barr, [...]
By Tim Hadfield
“Lucian Freud: Self-portraits,”is an Anglo-American curatorial project between the Royal Academy of Art, in London, and the Museum of Fine Arts Boston. The exhibition features drawings, paintings and etchings from the artist’s late teens and every subsequent decade of his life. The Royal Academy exhibition ran for four months into early 2020, [...]
“The art museum cannot free itself from its boredom through the works alone; it needs more and different commitment and courage.”
Published in 2014 in Germany, Müde Museen, or Tired Museums, was a book with a catchy title that was able to capture the zeitgeist of the time in regard to the malaise that had settled upon [...]
ARTPULSE Sr. Editor Stephen Knudsen interviews Savannah College of Art and Design President and Founder, Paula Wallace
Savannah College of Art and Design stands apart in higher education by offering unique, forward thinking degree programs and relevant majors for creative professionals. With locations in Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia, and Lacoste, France-in addition to SCAD eLearning-SCAD [...]
SCAD Museum of Art - Savannah, GA.
By Stephen Knudsen
“Other Youth“ is artist Marcus Dunn’s first solo museum exhibition. The paintings portray a dark chapter of history in which Indian children were forcibly removed from their families and put into North American government boarding schools-all in an effort to remove the “Other.”
Dunn shares openly that he [...]
