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Jenny Holzer at the Guggenheim Museum. Photo: Ander Gillenea/AFP/Getty Images. Mail art, a democratized genre that stresses a tactile sense of connection we could all use more of these days, is having quite a renaissance during the lockdown era. And now, the Danish agency Creator Projects is pushing it a step further. Its latest initiative,  M.M.S. ( Much. More. Shit.), allows even the humblest collectors to buy a set of 12 works by major artists (including Tania Bruguera, Daniel Buren, Ma...

.......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ..........“Hindsight/Insight” offers virtual visitors a taste of the University of New Mexico Art Museum with works ranging from Bruce Conner’s Funk Art to the sublime modernism of Georgia O’Keeffe. Georgia O’Keeffe (American, 1887-1986) “White Flowers,” 1926, oil on canvas, 32 x 12 inches. (Court...

Sam Whiting January 25, 2021Updated: January 26, 2021, 7:10 am Dimitri Grachis in the doorway of Spatsa Gallery. Photo: John Natsoulas Press Spatsa Gallery lasted only four years in San Francisco, but they were four crucial years, 1957-1961, as the assemblage art associated with the Beats bridged into the abstract expressionism and cubism of the 1960s. Never a commercial gallery, Spatsa was artist-run by its owner, Dimitri Grachis, who lived in the office behind the storefront on F...

Something was happening to the western in the 1960s and ’70s. The old screen heroes were ageing out and so were their moralities. The Shootist (1976) saw John Wayne confronting his age and mortality, while Robert Altman’s McCabe and Mrs. Miller (1971) and Peckinpah’s Pat Garett and Billy the Kid (1973) cast the western’s classical heroism into an elegiac doubt. This was what came to be known as the revisionist western, a wave of westerns demythologizing, mourning, and critiquing John Fo...

Show People (1928) to Quentin Tarantino’s elegiac Once Upon a Time In Hollywood (2019) films about Hollywood, and by extension Los Angeles, have been there from the start of movies and continued in various guises throughout its multifarious history, often with tongue planted firmly in cheek. Throughout the sixties and early seventies several films were produced that spoke of the end of Hollywood as a creative enterprise, that is, as a field in which artists could examine their emotions and i...

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an education program for k-12 kids, and we first used the art to hook them and engage them in the science, and then we follow that with both western sign tisk workshops as well as indigenous wisdom workshops. another amazing feedback i got from kids was that they said, oh, ive seen the gulf oil spill on the news, but seeing it like this is a completely different experience, and we had no idea it was like this. thats another story that ive heard of the real difference in how you tell th...

publisher so bloggers were -- terrell made and i suspect few people run facebook. things have changed. this year walter isaacson spoke about digital media and is up in remarks and we have been given hashtag for the life tweeting panel. every person from roundtable has developed a robust digital strategy for their brand. if youre listening to the leaders on that roundtable six years ago you might not have seen pitchers give up the impending disruption but there were emerging leaders in ...