Wednesday, December 12, 2012

December 2012 JAVA magazine interview

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Phoenix's JAVA magazine interviewed me for their last issue of 2012. Here is the link to the pages (you will need to click on the red arrow at the top to read the whole article by Jenna Duncan). Or, read the full text below.

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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Le Huffington Post: The Most Emailed Article on the Site For September 2012

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I posted this blog entry exactly one month ago on Le Huffington Post. By the end of the first week if was the most emailed article on the site, and as of today it was still the most emailed entry of the month. Make sure to view the slideshow, the images speak for themselves.

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Thursday, June 28, 2012

Huffington Post: Art in "Paradise" (Far From the Art-Industrial Hive)

My latest Huffington Post article about Arizona based artists Geny Dignac and Rotraut Klein-Moquay is out now. 

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Wednesday, May 16, 2012

SHIBUHOUSE at The Container Gallery

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Nako-Meguro's hip gallery The Container will celebrate its one-year anniversary by hosting the first solo show of the young Japanese collective SHIBUHOUSE. The show, entitled "House 100," will open with live performances by Jack McLean and Martijn Kluit May 21.

Since its founding early last March The Container's director Shai Ohayon ran a program of well received exhibitions that featured the works of local and visiting artists such as Jack McLean, LG Williams/Estate of LG Williams and Chim↑Pom. Japan Times, Tokyo Art Beat, Metropolis, Time Out Tokyo, Glass Magazine and CNNgo reviewed or reported on The Container's activities. I wrote about the inaugural show Salt Mine for Artforum.com.

The gallery press release describes "House 100" as a performative exhibition, that will consist of a series of interviews that will be conducted with the members of the collective over the course of the show. Here is more about the show from the press release: 

Shibuhouse is a young loose collective from Tokyo Japan which was formed in 2008 and includes 20-some members. The members, who are engaged in various disciplines – from visual art practitioners, to medical students, publishers, producers, designers, film makers and musicians – all share a house together in the busy neighbourhood of Shibuya in central Tokyo.

Their interventions (such as “Bad Cloth” in 2010, which prompted the involvement of the police and the Yakuza) and their monthly house parties on the 22nd of each month, have earned the collective local notoriety and a new approach to the discourse about the relation between art and life, blurring the distinction between one’s personal life and conventional art practices.

The young loose-collective which was formed in 2008 and explores the notion of art through their shared residence in the central Tokyo neighbourhood Shibuya, gives us an opportunity to consider the borders between acts of art and simply living, through a series of interviews they are conducting for the duration of the exhibition. The interviewees are a range of artists, designers, musicians and professionals the collective selected as figures of inspiration.

 The Container is set up for the duration of the exhibition as an office, or an external representation of the collective’s residence, hosting the guests and enabling members of Shibuhouse to hang out with them in an informal environment that seeks to investigate the ideas of what is a house or home, what is a family and how these subjective definitions contribute to, or facilitate, artistic production.

The interviews, which will all be conducted inside of the actual container, will be broadcast live on the internet, with additional information and a synopsis available online through the collective’s blog and twitter account. A copy of each broadcast will remain permanently online.

Saturday, May 12, 2012

Bill Berkson in Conversation with "Beat & Beyond: San Francisco Art 1950–2000" Seminar

May 2, or very last seminar meeting, we had a pleasure of Bill Berkson's company. What a great end to a great semester! Thank you, everyone!

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Born in New York in 1939, Bill Berkson is a poet, critic, teacher and sometime curator, who has been active in the art and literary worlds since his early twenties. Director of Letters and Science at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1993 to 1998, he taught art history, critical writing and poetry and directed the public lectures program there from 1984 to 2007. He studied at Trinity School, The Lawrenceville School, Brown University, Columbia, the New School and New York University's Institute of Fine Arts. 

 He is the author of several books and pamphlets of poetry—including, most recently, Gloria, a portfolio of poems with etchings by Alex Katz (Arion Press, 2005), Our Friends Will Pass Among You Silently (The Owl Press, 2007) and Goods and Services (Blue Press, 2008). Other recent books are What's Your Idea of a Good Time: Letters & Interviews 1977-1985 with Bernadette Mayer (Tuumba Press, 2006; BILL with drawings by Colter Jacobsen; and Ted Berrigan with George Schneeman. A collection of his criticism, The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings, appeared in 2004, and Sudden Address: Selected Lectures 1981-2006 in 2007.Portrait and Dream: Selected Poems 1959-2008 will appear from Coffee House Press in Spring 2009.

Monday, April 16, 2012

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Saturday, March 17, 2012

ARTFORUM CRITIC'S PICKS: "the economy of things" at the SMoCA

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Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting a group sculpture show curated by Cassandra Coblentz. Here is a link to my review of the show in Critic's Picks. 

Huffington Post: "The School of Things": Japanese Art c. 1970 Comes to Los Angeles

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My posting on the Mono-ha show that Mika Yoshitake curated at Blum & Poe. 

Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Dr. Julia Friedman Have Been Nominated for 2011-2012 ASASU Centennial Professorship

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Two ASU faculty who havemade significant contributions to the students of Arizona State University through outstanding instruction both within and beyond the classroom receive this award each year.  The award totals $15,000, including a cash prize of $7,500 and a stipend of $7,500 to be used for the benefit of students and classroom teaching.  

Monday, February 27, 2012

Thursday, February 23, 2012

Red Triangles

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Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Guess a Painting--Get a Candy!

Art History Methods seminar at the Herberger Institute fair.

Saturday, February 11, 2012

My essay "The Invisible Cosmology of Chihiro Kabata" is out

LASALLE College of the Arts' Institute of Contemporary Art in Singapore (ICAS) just published the first issue of their new magazine Glossary. Among the essays in the volume is my article on Chihiro Kabata, I co-curated an exhibition of her work at ICAS last Spring.

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Friday, February 10, 2012

Sunday, February 5, 2012

Big Sign

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Monday, January 30, 2012

Friday, January 27, 2012

"Beat and Beyond" Seminar

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Our inaugural speaker Rachel Fried who modeled for the Bay Area Figs in the 1980s.

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Sunday, January 22, 2012

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

2012 Getty Library Research Grant

Getty Research Center has awarded me a 2012 Library Research Grant to carry to support my current monograph project on Wally Hedrick. 

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Image courtesy of the Estate of Wally Hedrick

Thursday, January 12, 2012