January 2010
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Lisa Cooley Fine Art : Exhibitions →
JOSH FAUGHT
The young West Coast artist both sends up and pays homage to radical crafts. A scruffy tapestry titled “House Plant” is studded with bulbous spores and embellished with campy plastic pins with slogans like “Sorry Girls, I’m Gay.” Another piece involves a big denim bow, a laminated flyer for housecleaning services, and a button that reads, “Sorry I missed church. I was busy...
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Visual constructions of 'the great white hope'
Neo-Imperialist infantilizing of Haiti by Red Cross.
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Flo McGarrell, FTM Artist, another tragedy of the...
I’m grateful @calebcasberry @homegrownboi and devastated to discover Flo McGarrell a talented visual artist who perished along with 75,000 Haitians (can this number really be true?) in the quake. NPR mentioned Flo in this piece.
Here some excerpts of an interview Flo gave,
The work I do in the States is conscious of the struggles of my friends living in Haiti, of how hard it is to get...
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Disaster Porn, CNN on Haiti
I am dismayed and agree with BAGnews latest post “Why and How I Lost It (Over CNN “Getting Off” On a Haitian Victim Rescue).
The current (but far from new) obsessive coverage of tragedy, the lack of respect for the victims, showing horrific images that would never be shown of North American and European victims, calling victims who are homeless and starving...
Ten US Museum Exhibitions to see in 2010 →
hydeordie:
This is a pretty good list that isn’t even NYC-centric! Of course it has the Marina Abramovic show at MOMA that I couldn’t be more excited about and the John Baldessari show that is travelling to LACMA, but it also has the Cattelan show at the de Menil in Houston that I was so upset about missing.
Here are a few more shows that I am also looking forward to seeing this year…
Robin...
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The Pink and Blue Projects by JeongMee Yoon
My current work, “The Pink and Blue Projects are the topic of my thesis. This project explores the trends in cultural preferences and the differences in the tastes of children (and their parents) from diverse cultures, ethnic groups as well as gender socialization and identity. The work also raises other issues, such as the relationship between gender and consumerism, urbanization, the...