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What does a giant Kraft macaroni share with the Walker Art Center’s Painter Painter show? Both appear in Quodlibetica’s March 2013 constellation, a stroll through Art On The Town. For our editorial, click here.
Finding Romance in an Age of Paradox (Part Two)
By Brandon Regner
I. It is the It
The purpose of my last article was to examine what exactly fine art is and how it operates: a system in which artists make work, and institutions validate art works by including them in collections, articles, and exhibitions. [...]
Published 3.1.2013
By Christina Schmid
Arguably, “The House We Built: Feminist Art Then and Now” is an important show. It brings together the work of 70 artists who happen to be women and whose work was touched, moved, and propelled by the feminist movement. The oldest pieces in the show date back to the early seventies, the most [...]
Published 3.1.2013
By Thomas O. Haakenson
Orange, Marge-Simpson-like hair floats above tight, neon green jackets and swaying, tapping bodies. Undulating into and out of each other like agitated lovers, Nic Lincoln and Erin Thompson engage each other as hyperkinetic specters, then overflow from a video feed into the performance space [...]
Published 3.1.2013
by Collier White
In an alphabetical list, Amour led this year’s Academy Award nominees for Best Picture. The film, written and directed by Michael Haneke, is a catalog of a man’s horrors and devotional ablutions in the months between his wife’s first stroke and her eventual death. Spare and realistic, this story of [...]
Published 3.1.2013
By Jenna Westrick
Social engagement.
It’s a topic that artists and art spaces alike must consider. Whether the goal is money, social change, or both, art cannot exist within a vacuum if it hopes to serve a purpose. With our modern attention span being tugged in countless directions, art cannot remain contained [...]
Published 3.1.2013
By Lea Devon Sorrentino
Most mass-produced items that we find in our homes develop a personal connotation. An old recliner that feels like a warm embrace after a long day or a comforting, over-sized mug brought back from a long weekend vacation, only used on sick days, can remind us that [...]
Published 3.1.2013
By Jen Caruso
In the overview text to Painter Painter, the Walker Art Center’s first group show on painting in twelve years, the co-curators, Eric Crosby and Bartholomew Ryan, ask us to consider “what is at stake for a new generation committed to the medium.” What are painters, specifically, young painters, saying about the work? [...]
Published 3.1.2013