Art Research Office

01/12/2023

Extremely important to remember in times like these- “I am not a professional,” he declared in a statement written for a group show catalog in 1967. “My paintings are done by a filmmaker, sculpture by a musician, films by a painter, music by a filmmaker, paintings by a sculptor, sculpture by a filmmaker, films by a musician, music by a sculptor.” And, he added, “Sometimes they all work together.” Michael Snow

He was a painter, a musician, a photographer and a sculptor. But he was best known for experimental (and often contentious) films like “Wavelength.”

04/13/2021

The art world is the least environmental in it's practices (from crates, art fairs and shipping), now we have the footprint of the multitude of servers burning it up. This tulip speculation is just another century of the same old output.

Making the digital artworks requires colossal amounts of computing power, and that means greenhouse gases.

08/04/2020

there is HOPE for the future of public art in the US!

In a lengthy meeting, city officials paused the selection process for a monument to Maya Angelou.

07/01/2020

More sad news for art colleges in the US. "Faculty, in a recent meeting, asked the administration why it couldn’t sell certain artworks in the museum to help defray the budget deficit. The president said RISD must adhere to industry policies set out by the American Alliance of Museums and the Association of Art Museum Directors."

The college says it can’t sell works in its art museum to raise money.

07/01/2020

New Museum starts getting some action on its inaction.

The group Artists for Workers has created a website replicating that of the museum, but instead provides resources for anti-racist organizing.

07/01/2020

Time is starting to open up the unbalance in museum culture and working conditions.

06/26/2020

As ArtBasel attempts a virtual fair this week. Reports are shining light on the outcome.

The fair’s global director on how the pandemic will change the art market — but also how it won’t

06/17/2020

An update on the SFAI closure.

THIS PAST APRIL, during a fractious Zoom meeting between the faculty and trustees of the San Francisco Art Institute (SFAI), the phrase “the house is on fire” was uttered multiple times. SFAI has faced existential threats more than once in its 149-year history: In the fires that ravaged San Fran...

06/17/2020

Interesting press release coming from CCA. It's worth a study.

06/16/2020

A great artist and perspective for the times. One in many ways we are researching towards a new world, full of love, art and equality.

Amid ongoing protests against racism and police brutality, images of Scott’s work have been disseminated widely on social media. During the Covid-19 lockdown, he created two social media projects t…

05/19/2020

Rest in Peace Susan!- "She combs the dry hills behind the house for potsherds, arrowheads, and other artifacts of the ruined Galisteo pueblo, where a Tewa-speaking people flourished from the late twelve-hundreds to about 1690, on what is now the Naumans’ land. Her finds fill many drawers and shelves in the house, and she has assembled a dozen or more complete pots."

With her paintings of horses, she helped chart a path forward for figuration.