Posts Tagged With: art
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…
Creating a Room of One’s Own – The Feminine Placemaking of “Womanhouse” (Shelby Maiden)
The visual and performing arts are inherently bonded to the art of literature; all additionally lend themselves to the narratives of women and their specific hardships. Examination of the relationship between each art form and its history is vital, but perhaps even more essential is the relationship that contemporary art…
Hegel And The Buddha in Popular Culture and Art, Part 2 (Dion Peoples)
The following is the second part of a two-part series. The first installment can be found here. The Dhamma, when told to someone, conditions the mind of the artist, who then becomes conditioned and forms ideas according to his biases or other preferences. Hegel writes in the Phenomenology of Mind: “…spirit…
But Is It Art? – Searching For Simple, Practical, And Illuminating Answers, Part 2 (Jakob Zaaiman)
The following is a second installment of a two-part series. The first part can be found here. The question then arises, how does the “theatrical pretense” – and its invitation to a theatrical narrative – relate to inanimate crafted objects such as paintings, or sculptures? The answer is that, in the…
But Is It Art? – Searching For Simple, Practical, And Illuminating Answers (Jakob Zaaiman)
The following is the first installment of a two-part series. “Art” desperately needs a handy, practical definition, not of the scholarly conceptual variety, but rather of the plain and simple sort that you can usefully take with you into a gallery, and apply directly to what you see. You want…
After The Death Of Art (Carl Raschke)
Even if God is dead, art is not. And art is starting to come alive again through powerful new forms of collaborative partnerships between artists and commercial interests as part of a new movement that the Austrian inventors of the term have called “strategic art branding”. Up until the late…
Metamodernism – Art After Postmodernism (Sandra Ceas)
Donald Kuspit, postmodern art critic and professor of art history and philosophy, gives a dated and surface view to what is imminently going on in the contemporary world of art in the twenty-first century when he calls it “narcissistic,” “meaningless” and “decadent” in its “metamodern” existence. Two scholars from the…