“Shifting the Gaze: A Reconstruction of the Black and Hispanic Body in Contemporary Art” is a blockbuster show, if not in size, certainly in relevance. Curated from the Mennello Museum of American Art, it is currently on exhibit at the Opalka Gallery. As the title of this exhibition suggests, changing the politics of the male…
Janine Antoni and Stephen Petronio at the Tang Museum, Skidmore College, through July 16, 2017. Blog Post by Dr. Melody Davis It’s a clothes line, a simple rope, with associations ranging from the mundane to the metaphysical. In the performance of Antoni, a visual artist, and Petronio, a choreographer and dancer, the rope becomes…
Article by Dr. Melody Davis Published on thealt.com March 29, 2017 David Salle’s March 23 talk at University at Albany, hosted by Joe Donahue and recorded by WAMC radio, was a promotional vehicle for Salle’s How to See: Looking, Talking and Thinking About Art, a new book of art criticism published by W. W. Norton. Beginning…
Blog Post by Dr. Melody Davis It’s an astounding experience when you’ve taught a work for decades without seeing it in its entirety—then you do. So it was when I encountered James Rosenquist’s FX 111 from 1965 in the Museum of Modern Art’s 1960s show. Rosenquist’s work, usually just seen in sections, is a…
Thank you to Amy Elliot for this article: Smoking and Artistry: Overcoming Addiction Written by QuitDay.org Artists may sometimes smoke as a result of the stress and compulsion which is common to true visionists. We are asking that all artists from every background, painters, writers, and photographers, to demonstrate their passion and stand together…
Blog post by Dr. Melody Davis Codrescu for the Holiday Break We have a sparse calligraphic tradition in the West. In other parts of the world, such as Asia, Africa, and Islamic cultures, the interdependence of word-form and image is treated with respect, even reverence. How can we truly separate them, after all? Ion…
Your Summer Field Trip yes, you Ah, the lazy daze of Summer, sunshine, beaches, bar-b-ques, and ART. No classes, no excuses. This is the time to attend to your duty of sallying forth into the world and seeing how others go about IT. Rest assured, the burden will be a light one. Follow the path:…
The Clark Art Institute The new Clark, designed by Tadao Ando, is a wonder of architecture and interior design. The planarity of the pink granite, vertical metal bars, fenestration, and gravel garden is harmonious, gentle, and postmodern with a Japanese touch. If you can go by May 17th, you can visit “Machine Age Modernism: Prints…
Memory Books The assumed equivalency of photography and memory is a clichè in our culture, but Melinda McDaniel takes this transparency as a starting point for questioning how we relate to photographic material, how we process its information, and how we layer images, whether experienced first-hand or through media that offer a simulacrum of…
The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery is proud to present a series of eight videos recorded live during the East Coast premiere of the Quiet Music Festival on Oct. 23. The videos can be found at http://bit.ly/11PBLZW. The videos are embeddable on blogs and websites, and can be shared via social media.…