Posts Tagged With: contemporary art
Making Mesoamerica Visible In The Discourse Of Contemporary Art And Ecology (Elliott Jenkins)
“In our everyday lived experience, there is an unforgiving momentum to adopt ways of being that are Eurocentric within a coloniality of power, especially in schools.” -Cueponcaxochitl Dianna Moreno Sandoval In order to recognize human impact on the environment, it is first important to understand our relationship with our planet…
Minority Representation In Mainstream Art Museums, Part 3 (Heather Stivison)
The following is the third and last installment of a three-part series. The first can be found here, the second here. In recent years, New Zealand museums have risen to the challenge of presenting Native arts in ways that are respectful of spiritual beliefs. One example, given by Andromache Gazi,…
Minority Representation In Mainstream Art Museums, Part 2 (Heather Stivison)
The following is the second of a three-part series. The first can be found here. Cultural Perspectives & Inequities The history of colonialism in the English-speaking world is such that, to this day, the white majority culture dominates that of indigenous peoples. Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United States…
Minority Representation In Mainstream Art Museums, Part 1 (Heather Stivison)
The following is the first of a three-part series. The project on which this essay is based focused on art museums within the English-speaking world and their evolving relationship with the art of African Americans and Native peoples. As a direct result of colonialism, the English-speaking world long held that…
Beyond “Zombie Formalism” – Painting After The End Of Painting (Iwo Zmyślony)
This essay first appeared in the catalogue of the 9th Bielska Jesień curatorial exhibition (28.10-26.12.2016), held by Bielska Gallery BWA (Curators Jagna Domża and Wojciech Kozłowski, https://www.facebook.com/events/1643325709292819/). Reprinted with permission. Rather than initiating the death of painting, as was expected, photography and other media of mechanical reproduction have been like…