Author: Ann Williams
HOUSTON – For the 2024 FotoFest Biennial, director and curator Steve Evans asked how photographers document erasure. From rural Texas to the cities of Hong Kong, political unrest, climate change and gentrification have constantly altered the landscape, obscuring hard histories. The main exhibition Critical Geography At Silver Street Studios and Winter Street Studios in Sawyer Yards, it brings together 20 international artists in collectives, all questioning the politics of space. A smaller show, Ten tenIt highlights leading artists gathered in more than 400 portfolio reviews, and is exhibited biennially at more than 70 participating venues throughout Houston and its suburbs.…
A prominent art and design school in Kiev was heavily damaged by a Russian airstrike on Monday, becoming the latest landmark of Ukrainian culture during the Russian invasion. The news was shared by the Ministry of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine, which said in a statement, “As a result of falling fragments of a missile launched by the Russian Federation, the center of the building of the Kyiv State Academy of Decoration and Applied Arts. Art and design named Mykhailo Boichuk was destroyed.” The ministry added that “the premises of the departments and the institution’s auditorium have suffered significant…
Multidisciplinary artist Xin Liu has won the inaugural K11 Artist Prize, an award created by the K11 Art Foundation in 2023 to highlight emerging Asian talent. Born in Xinjiang, China in 1991 and living in New York, Liu was selected among eight artists for his interdisciplinary work that connects art and science. The artist studied measurement, control technology and instrumentation at Tsinghua University in Beijing, and later earned an MA in media arts and science from MIT and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. His educational experiences have inspired him to approach his work as a scientific…
New digital art experiences, such as London’s Outernet, have been in the headlines recently with high numbers of attendees compared to more traditional museums; last year, for example, Outernet reported almost 6.3 million visitors compared to 5.8 million for the British Museum.But how does Outernet account for visitors entering its open-sided building at a busy intersection in central London? It uses video surveillance. Or, more specifically, it uses video analytics provider BriefCam to track visitors using deep learning, an artificial intelligence (AI) method that teaches computers to process data like the human brain. We are able to track gender and…
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Sam Dienst, “Freeze” (2023), with handwoven decorative tapestry (yarn, beads, felt, paint, and thread), 40 x 38 inches Sam Dienst, “Freeze” (2023), with handwoven decorative tapestry (yarn, beads, felt, paint, and thread), 40 x 38 inches Sam Dienst, “Freeze” (2023), with handwoven decorative tapestry (yarn, beads, felt, paint, and thread), 40 x 38 inches DETROIT – The word “tapestry” conjures up medieval constructions in dark, simple palettes that convey religious rites and hunting motifs, but modern practitioners such as Ebony G. Patterson have demonstrated that the form belongs to the (second) Renaissance. Following the call of his textile practice, Detroit…
A group of parents recently filed a lawsuit worth more than C$1.5 million ($1.16 million) against an art teacher and a school board after students found classroom artwork available for purchase on the teacher’s personal website. The students attended Westwood Junior High School in Saint-Lazare, Quebec. The suit, filed March 22 in Quebec Superior Court, seeks $1.58 million, or $155,000, for each of the 10 students, plus punitive damages, alleging copyright infringement by former teacher Mario Perron and the Lester B. Pearson School Board. Related Articles The lawsuit alleges that in January Perron assigned his 96 students to draw a…
As US museums continue to struggle with the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic, many have drawn connections between the year-long decline in visitors and staff cuts. But as the number of visitors begins to stabilize, it is not clear whether the museums will regain their lost positions, a problem that has become more urgent as funds are diverted to other projects.The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York reported that it received more than 861,000 visitors in 2023, a 33% decrease from 2019. The museum laid off ten employees last December, citing rising operating costs, inflation and a drop in…
The former chief financial officer of New York’s Museum of Arts and Design (Mad) is suing the museum, alleging that she was fired after reporting alleged misconduct by the museum’s director. The lawsuit accuses the museum of retaliation and failure to comply with the whistleblower policy.According to the lawsuit filed by Denise Lewis, who worked at the museum from 2017 until she was fired in January of this year, museum director Timothy Rodgers wanted to use the organization’s funds to pay for personal expenses while on vacation in Mexico last October. After raising the issue with other museum leaders and…
Two museum bookends Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network, a 2021 Howie Chen-edited archival anthology about the eponymous and influential activist network in New York City. The first museum is a fantasy, a vision of an institution based on equity and representation. At a Godzilla formation meeting at Margo Machida’s Brooklyn studio on July 26, 1990, artists Ken Chu and Bing Lee and art historian Machida, according to the anthology’s minutes, “discussed ideas for forming an Asian American art organization. Asian American visual artists it would begin to respond to the emerging needs of our contemporaries.” Chuk and Lee outlined their…