SLICING UP THE CINEMA ARTS FEST (Part 2: Arts Docs)
I mentioned in my last post that arts documentaries are arguably the heart of the Cinema Arts Festival (running this evening through Sunday). These films, at their best, illuminate the work and lives of visionary shapers of our culture. They connect the inspirations, impulses, and impacts. They remind us of the importance of that funny, [...]
Dallas Morning News Sketches of Non-solutions Add Zest to Ongoing Museum Tower Follies
The Dallas Morning News sees no resolution in sight for the ongoing Nasher-Museum Tower Glare-Off, but has sketches of some supposedly serious proposals for technological solutions, including the much-touted louvers; a wheel-like giant archi-sculpture with unfurling parasols that tower officials say would be an “artistic addition” to the site, but Nasher officials say was rejected [...]
You May Have Heard This Already: Two Important Headlines Only Tangentially Related to the Texas Art Scene
President Obama Wins National Election, Will Remain In Office for Four More Years. Hurricane Sandy Pummels East Coast, Wrecking Jersey Shore and Flooding Chelsea Galleries.
Arts People is Good People, Says New NEA-Funded Study- Or At Least They Were in 2002
A new study, Impact of the Arts on Individual Contributions to U.S Civil Society, by researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago suggests a link between engagement in the arts and community involvement, altruism, and tolerance. The study analyzed data collected way back in 2002 from 2765 people in the General Social Survey (GSS), [...]
Brochure for Those in Flight…Massa Lemu
Recent conversations on contemporary art are littered with language on the archive-as-artwork, mostly inspired by Derrida’s 1988 publication, Archive Fever. Exhibitions continue to spring up centered on the archive, most notably Archive fever: uses of the document in contemporary art curated by Okwui Enwezor at the International Center of Photography in 2008. Passages of the [...]
