We just spoke with Slow Art Day 2013 host Nadin Mai, who came to the idea of slow art from the world of film and the research she has been doing on the origins and influences of what’s called “slow…
We recently caught up with Laurel Fehrenbach, public programs coordinator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, to discuss “Is This Art?”, a museum initiative with several programs that slows visitors down and asks them to focus on only one or…
As the year winds down, Professor Katy Siegel reflects in Frieze on recent changes in the way art is being made and studied. Interestingly, she suggests it’s like the way music was made in the 17th and 18th centuries –…
If two works of art could talk to each other, what would they say? The Fisher Landau Center for Arts in Long Island City explores this idea in their current show called “Visual Conversations.” In it, free-standing sculpture is placed…
Big Red & Shiny’s Benjamin R. Sloat interviews three Taiwanese artists, Chen Chieh-Jen, Yao Jui-Chung, and Chien-Chi Chang, and discusses the challenges of cultural misinterpretation. Marcel Duchamp said the viewer participates in the artistic process – “the artist sets in…
Ever felt lost when looking at a work of contemporary art? Will Gompertz, BBC arts editor and former Tate gallery director, addresses this common phenomenon in his article in The Huffington Post. He offers some solace and explanation for the…
Helen Stoilas writes in The Art Newspaper how more and more museums are focusing on performance, particularly dance, in their programming to revitalize the experience of their visitors. Stoilas quotes PS1 associate curator Jenny Schlenzka on the significance of this…
October 20, 2017: UPDATE – we have heard from the Susan Inglett Gallery in New York that this report from Tyler Green back in 2012 was wrong. Robyn O’Neil’s large scale work, HELL, was NOT destroyed. Happily, HELL is on display at…
When you are looking at art in a gallery or museum do you pay attention to the building or the installation set-up? Harry Cooper, curator of modern and contemporary art at the National Gallery of Art in Washington DC, writes…
Good news – yesterday, the tumblr staff named us to the editorship for the Art Tag. What does this mean? It means we now have the ability to highlight and promote art from across the worldwide tumblr community. We’re honored…