My imaginary interview with Amy Goodman on Culture and Resistance
Amy Goodman featured “Culture and Resistance” today. I love Democracy Now and I love Amy Goodman, but this show was notable for what was not included: visual artists! In my opinion it also...
View ArticleTatiana Garmendia Takes on Topic of Violence Against Women in “Veils of...
As we were standing in the opening of the exhibition “Veils of Ignorance”, just days after a young woman had died as the victim of gang rape in India, and that country was experiencing a nationwide...
View ArticleLynn Hershmann Leeson !Women Art Revolution The Movie
The Film “!Women Art Revolution” by Lynn Hershmann Leeson is an impressive work. (the image above by Spain Rodriguez is from a graphic novel based on the film). We all know the story of course, of...
View Article“Idle No More” and other Protests
The massive Climate Change protest in DC brought together Indigenous leaders from Canada and the US as well as African Americans with the usually dominantly white movement. In Seattle, sadly, we had...
View ArticleContemporary Art and Archeology in the Middle East: Crying Caryatids, Flooded...
inside the ancient bridge at Hasankeyf Hasankeyf 12000 years old and about to be flooded Contemporary art and even the study of archaeology in the Middle East are deeply embedded in the dramatic...
View ArticleOut [o] Fashion at the Henry Art Gallery
Carrie Mae Weems Sea Island Series “Out [o] Fashion: Embracing Beauty” at the Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, changes the way we see photographs. That is a big statement! But it is...
View ArticleBeyond G(u)ernica and Bilbao: Contemporary Culture in the Basque Country
Many leaders of the contemporary art scene in the Basque country came to University of Reno, Nevada, last week to speak at the Center for Basque Studies in a symposium called “Beyond Guernica and...
View ArticleUnder my Skin Artists Explore Race in the 21st Century
Mary Coss in collaboration with teenagers who wear hijabs. The wire sculptures are images of the girls, the work included their art work and their conversation about wearing hijabs What a difference a...
View ArticleArt about Detention and Immigration as a terrible new law makes its way...
The Detention and Deportation system in the US is already out of control. The average population of detainees has escalated from 5,000 in 1994 to 33,000 in 2010. The bill under consideration is...
View ArticleSopheap Pich revisited
In November 2011 Sopheap Pich came to Seattle for a one person exhibition at the Henry Art Gallery. He also created designs for a play about the experience of Cambodian refugees. I wrote about these...
View ArticleEleanor Harvey’s groundbreaking exhibition The Civil War and American Art
Eleanor Jones Harvey exhibition “The Civil War and American Art” is a fundamental reinterpretation of American painting. As we are marking the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, and the...
View ArticleArt and Politics at the Seattle International Film Festival
There were powerful politics in many of the films at the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF). The back stories for the making of the films as well as the politics of their release are...
View ArticleGoya’s Las Rinde el Sueño (Sleep Overcomes Them) and Que Pico de Oro (What a...
I have just acquired two prints by Goya from his Los Caprichos series. “Las rinde el Sueño” (Sleep overcomes them) and ““Que Pico de Oro!”( What a golden beak). According to the Davidson Gallery...
View ArticlePart I Haida Gwaii (Queen Charlotte Islands) Tradition Resurrected
When you visit Haida Gwaii you can feel the magic of 10,000 years of continuous history. Haida Gwaii (formerly Queen Charlotte Islands) is the homeland of the Haida. As you approach on the long ferry...
View ArticleBuster Simpson// Surveyor
Salmon wind vane and boot Buster Simpson arrived in downtown Seattle in 1973 only four years after Lucy Lippard came here to create what is now known as the first ever exhibition of conceptual art....
View ArticlePart II Haida Gwaii: Thanks, But No Tanks
Through the windows of the Haida Gwaii Cultural Center, the beach and sea and sky and birds beckon us to embrace the stunning land that belongs to the Haida people today and for the last ten thousand...
View Article“Here is Where We Jump,” El Museo del Barrio’s La Bienal 2013
Ignacio Gonzàlez-LangKhinatown This astonishing work in El Museo de Barrio’s La Bienal 2013 “Here is Where We Jump” is described as follows: “The black robe used in this work is called “the...
View ArticleObsessions in Venice
Here is the logo for the Venice Biennale. Small blue arrows going in and big yellow arrows going out of a brain represented by red and white concentric circles. I can testify that this Biennial...
View ArticleEnglish Magic
Jeremy Deller’s Pavilion for Great Britain at the Venice Biennale includes a lot of disparate elements, none of which the artist made. He does not paint, sculpt, photograph or draw. Rather he...
View ArticleSarah Sze “Triple Point” The US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale
We could feel our expectations shifting as we approached the pavilion from the back, from the Czech pavilion, instead of front and center facing the traditional classical portico. We could see trails...
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