Posted by leannegoebel on September 20, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Here is a video of the Liberators exhibit on display through September 26, 2010 at Museo de las Americas in Denver. The video originally appeared on adobeairstream.com.
Category ART, Art Criticism, arts journalism, Biennial, contemporary art, Denver · Tagged with Anna Maria Hernando, Cliff Fragua, Fernando Sanchez, Javier Cortoda, Liberators, Liliana Folte, Museo de las Americas, Oscar Munoz, Paula Winograd, Seth Wolsin, SITE Santa Fe, The Disappeared
Posted by leannegoebel on August 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Is a Titan IV Stage II rocket engine a work of art? It was designed to fly to Saturn, but never made the journey. How about a B61 Thermonuclear Bomb? According to Adam Lerner and Paul Andersen, curators of Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts from the Landscape of Glorious Excess “nuclear weapons are designed to produce fear, and thereby they are made specifically to prevent their own use.” Try telling that to the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Category ART, Art Criticism, Art Museum, arts journalism, Biennial, contemporary art, Culture, Denver, Museum, New Media · Tagged with Andy Warhol, Anne Hardy, architecture, art, Art Modern Contemporary, B61 Thermonuclear weapons, Biennial of the Americas, Biennials, Ciro Najle, Contemporary art painting, contemporary photography, Cultural criticism, Denver, Don Stinson, Fat Man Walking, Gonzalo Lebrija, Green Economy, installation art, Janine Gordon, Jeff Shore & Jon Fisher, Jim Sanborn, Kcho, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos, Martha Russo, Maximilien Brice, MCA Denver, New Mexico Cultural Affairs, News and commentary, Orly Genger, Pablo Helguera, Paul Andersen, photography, Richard Meredith-Hardy, Science fiction, Steve Vaught, Terrestrial Physics, Titan IV rocket engine, video art, Viviane Le Courtois, Ward Shelley, Willard Wigan
Posted by leannegoebel on July 24, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Everything you wanted to know about the Biennial of the Americas and more happening in Denver this summer.
Category ART, Art Museum, arts journalism, Biennial, contemporary art, Creative Economy, Denver · Tagged with AJ Fosik, Alan Chimicoff, Alex McCloud, Andrew Rucklidge, Aspen Art Fair, Biennial of the Americas, BMOCA, Brendan Tang, Clark Richert, David B. Smith, David Buckingham, Denver Art Museum, Denver Biennial, Douglas Walker, Edward Ranney, Emma Hardy, Gregory Euclide, Janet Echelman, Jeronimo Hagerman, Kim Ferrer, Lauri Lynnxe Murphy, Linda Fleming, M12, MCA, MCA Denver, McNichols Building, Michele Mosko, Museo de las Americas, Museum of Outdoor Arts, Objectophilia, Paola Santoscoy, Plus Gallery, Portia Munson, Redesign the Sheep Wagon, Redline, Robischon Gallery, Rule Gallery, Sabine Aell, Teddy Cruz, The Nature of Things, Tony Ortega, Viviane Le Courtouois, Walker Fine Art, You are Here
Posted by leannegoebel on July 22, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Is the Denver Biennial already a success as Mayor Hickenlooper claims? Yes and No. Read more here in Leanne Goebel’s post on Huffington Post.
Posted by leannegoebel on November 9, 2009 · 3 Comments
Was Wael Shawky censored by SITE Santa Fe? And did they have reasonable grounds to ask him to change his concept? He did, but the controversy remains when the artist showed his New Mexico work in Egypt and Jordan.
Category Art Criticism, Art Museum, arts journalism, Biennial, contemporary art, Culture, Museum, Santa Fe · Tagged with censorship, IAIA, Islam, Joe Sanchez, Jori Finkel, Lance Fung, Laura Heon, Lucky Number Seven, RISD, Rose B. Simpson, Roxanne Swentzell, Santa Fe Museum of International Folk Art, SITE Santa Fe, Telematch, Tewa, Townhouse Gallery, Wael Shawky, William Wells
Posted by leannegoebel on October 21, 2009 · Leave a Comment
What do a business man, a sports guy and Bruce Mau all have in commong? Denver’s Biennial of the Americas, which proudly touts itself as a biennial with scientists and thinkers. But what about the art?
Category ART, Art Criticism, Art Fair, art market, Art Museum, arts journalism, Biennial, Culture, Denver, Design · Tagged with Biennial of the Americas, Bruce Mau, Denver Biennial, Leanne Goebel
Posted by leannegoebel on August 31, 2009 · Leave a Comment
This global focus of the art world, the film world, the creative world on the demand of the market has eroded a sense of community.
Posted by leannegoebel on August 12, 2009 · Leave a Comment
“This isn’t a biennial of contemporary art in the traditional sense. Our goal is to reinvent the notion of a biennial and take it a step further.”
Posted by leannegoebel on August 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Basualdo said choosing Nauman to represent the United States was simple.
“He is an artist’s artist,” Basualdo said. Nauman was also forefront in the minds of the Philadelphia curators, because they were in the process of acquiring Nauman’s 1967 neon, The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths.
Posted by leannegoebel on October 14, 2008 · Leave a Comment
Media Credit: Courtesy of Albuquerque Museum “Swoop” by Julia Barello, featured at the second annual Biennial Southwest exhibit at the Albuquerque Museum. The second installment of Biennial Southwest at The Albuquerque Museum, features 83 works from artists in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. Artists competed for cash awards totaling $10,500 in a variety of categories. … Read more
Energy Effects and Objectophillia on adobeairstream.com
Posted by leannegoebel on August 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment
Is a Titan IV Stage II rocket engine a work of art? It was designed to fly to Saturn, but never made the journey. How about a B61 Thermonuclear Bomb? According to Adam Lerner and Paul Andersen, curators of Energy Effects: Art and Artifacts from the Landscape of Glorious Excess “nuclear weapons are designed to produce fear, and thereby they are made specifically to prevent their own use.” Try telling that to the citizens of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Category ART, Art Criticism, Art Museum, arts journalism, Biennial, contemporary art, Culture, Denver, Museum, New Media · Tagged with Andy Warhol, Anne Hardy, architecture, art, Art Modern Contemporary, B61 Thermonuclear weapons, Biennial of the Americas, Biennials, Ciro Najle, Contemporary art painting, contemporary photography, Cultural criticism, Denver, Don Stinson, Fat Man Walking, Gonzalo Lebrija, Green Economy, installation art, Janine Gordon, Jeff Shore & Jon Fisher, Jim Sanborn, Kcho, Lockheed Martin, Los Alamos, Martha Russo, Maximilien Brice, MCA Denver, New Mexico Cultural Affairs, News and commentary, Orly Genger, Pablo Helguera, Paul Andersen, photography, Richard Meredith-Hardy, Science fiction, Steve Vaught, Terrestrial Physics, Titan IV rocket engine, video art, Viviane Le Courtois, Ward Shelley, Willard Wigan