Category: contemporary art

  • Recent articles you might have seen on Adobe Airstream

    Just in case you think I haven’t been busy writing, the following are a few links to posts made last month on Adobe Airstream The Met’s Museum Store Compresses $25 million for Jeff Koons’ train about as ridiculous as a fur-lined trash can Durango Film Festival Screens 80 Films Copyright Leanne Goebel. May not be…

  • Transgressing Culture at Culture Unplugged

    Read my latest work Transgressing Culture at Culture Unplugged an international website of film and culture. Copyright Leanne Goebel. May not be used without permission.

  • The Art of Numbers opens this week in Milford, PA

    UPDATE: Good Question Gallery is now online. Check out the link. “The Art of Numbers” at Good Question GalleryWorks By: Lisa Zukowski, Kate Okeson, and Monica GoldsmithOpening: Saturday, March 7th, 7pm to 9pmExhibit Runs: March 6th to March 29th, 2009 Good Question Gallery is pleased to present the “The Art of Numbers,” a show of…

  • Beyond Beauty, Durango Herald, March 17, 2009

    SITE Santa Fe exhibit pushes boundaries of aesthetics “You are here, 2008” Judith Schaechter Much contemporary art is highly intellectualized, sprouting from institutes of higher learning, embedded in a system that eschews beauty and prefers provocation. Art today is in-your-face, shocking, gigantic, but rarely is it pretty. At SITE Santa Fe, Laura Heon has curated…

  • Mind the Gap–Or Not

    Review of recent exhibit at Eight Modern Gallery in Santa Fe, NM Katherine Lee, “Exterior 13, New Mexico” “Mind the Gap” is a warning phrase and a reminder to passengers in the London Underground of the significant—and potentially dangerous—space between the train door and the station platform. To “Mind the Gap” means that one does…

  • Jeremy Blake-“In and Out of Time”

    Jeremy BlakeWinchester Redux, 2004still from DVD with sound for plasma or projection5 minute continuous loopGift of Polly and Mark Addison to the Polly and Mark Addison Collection, CU Art Museum, University of Colorado at Boulder. 2006.42.1a-cImage courtesy of Kinz, Tillou + Feigen Gallery, NY The Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art recently exhibited a selection of…

  • Alchemical uncertainty at Boulder MOCA

    Erika WanenmacherThe Science Club: The Boy’s Room, Now, Forever, Then, Part 1” Sept. 26-Dec. 27, 2008Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art1750 13th StreetBoulder, CO80302303.443.2122 Entering the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art I am unsure what to expect from an exhibition about scientific experiments conducted on American citizens during the cold war and the age of nuclear…

  • Damien Hirst–hypocrit

    From two recent stories: one from The Independent in the UK and one from Artinfo.com. It seems that Damien Hirst is demanding recompense from a teenage artist who used images of Hirst’s diamond encrusted skull titled For the Love of God in collage paintings he sells on his website. Below is from The Independent: 16-year-old’s…

  • Their Way, Fort Lewis College seniors eschew imitation of others, Durango Herald, Dec. 5, 2008

    It’s the last hurrah for the Fort Lewis College graduating senior art majors. In their final exhibit – now on display at the college art gallery – students not only selected the art to display, they worked with gallery director Rita Cordalis to hang and light the exhibit. It is satisfying to see several of…

  • No More Glitzy Art?

    IS GLITZY ART ON THE WAY OUT? Prices aren’t the only thing different about the art on offer at ABMB [Art Basel Miami Beach] this year: tough economic conditions have also influenced what many dealers have brought and what many collectors are buying. Eventually, the times may also affect what art is made. In a…