IDSVA Students Travel the World With Residencies in Mexico City, Athens, and Marrakech
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by Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts (IDSVA)
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As a true nomadic institution, the Institute for Doctoral Arts in the Visual Arts (IDSVA) does not have a campus. We exist everywhere our students and faculty are. Below is a sampling of notes shared by students during recent residencies in Mexico City, Athens, and Marrakech. “IDSVA appealed to me because of the way it was structured. I’m an international teacher, so I wanted to continue working during my program, and IDSVA enabled me to do that. Because of the online format, and then the intensive residencies, I was able to continue working, be with my family, but then have these very rich ..read more
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Taiwan’s Public Programs at the Venice Biennale Focus on “Island-Thinking”
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by Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM)
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Starting Thursday, April 18, at the Palazzo delle Prigioni, “Public Forum: Thinking Like an Island” presents public programs about “island-thinking” during the opening week of the 60th International Venice Biennale. This programming is linked to Yuan Goang-Ming: Everyday War, the Taiwan Collateral Event, organized by the Taipei Fine Arts Museum. On the afternoon of opening day, “Public Forum: Thinking Like an Island” will highlight island-thinking as a methodology for survival and touch on what it means to be an island at a time when rising tides are a reality. Artist Yuan Goang-Ming, curator ..read more
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Kim Kardashian Sued After Touting Knockoff Donald Judd Set as Authentic
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by Rhea Nayyar
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It’s like trying to get into the club with a fake ID … (screenshot Rhea Nayyar/Hyperallergic via @seanieviola on X) Kim Kardashian allegedly turned down the Judd Foundation’s offer of authentic Donald Judd furniture in exchange for deleting a video in which she boasted a knock-off set that she passed off as original, legal documents reveal. The Judd Foundation filed a lawsuit against Kardashian and the Los Angeles interior design firm Clements Design after the celebrity stated that she owned “Donald Judd tables” that were found to be inauthentic. Per the suit, Clements Design manufactured the ..read more
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Why We Still Need the Godzilla Network
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by AX Mina
23h ago
Two museums bookend Godzilla: Asian American Arts Network, a 2021 archival anthology edited by Howie Chen about the eponymous and influential activist network from New York City. The first museum is a fantasy, a vision of an institution with equity and representation at its core.  On July 26, 1990, at the formative meeting for Godzilla at Margo Machida’s studio in Brooklyn, artists Ken Chu and Bing Lee and art historian Machida discussed, according to the minutes captured in the anthology, “ideas for forming an Asian American arts institution that would begin to address the emerging need ..read more
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Sam Dienst Weaves the Everyday Into Rich Tapestries
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by Sarah Rose Sharp
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Sam Dienst, “Freeze” (2023), hand-woven tapestry with embellishments (yarn, beads, felt, paint, and thread), 40 x 38 inches Sam Dienst, “Freeze” (2023), hand-woven tapestry with embellishments (yarn, beads, felt, paint, and thread), 40 x 38 inches Sam Dienst, “Freeze” (2023), hand-woven tapestry with embellishments (yarn, beads, felt, paint, and thread), 40 x 38 inches DETROIT — The word “tapestry” conjures Medieval constructions in dark, simple palettes, conveying religious rites and hunting motifs — but modern practitioners like Ebony G. Patterson have demonstrated that the form is due f ..read more
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Museum of the Bible Launches “New Testament Experience”
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by Sarah Rose Sharp
23h ago
Forget Disneyland, with its endless lines and overhyped characters: A new attraction is coming to town, and it’s so compelling you’ll certainly plan for a second coming. The New Testament Experience, presented by the controversy-laden Museum of the Bible in Washington, DC will open to the public tomorrow, March 29, offering guests the most exciting three-part affair since the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. The so-called “immersive experience” does not appear to involve any virtual reality (VR) or other immersive elements, at least according to an online customer representative who clari ..read more
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FotoFest Houston’s Power Lies in What Remains Unseen
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by Renée Reizman
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HOUSTON — For the 2024 FotoFest Biennial, director and curator Steve Evans wondered how photographers were documenting erasure. From rural Texas to urban Hong Kong, political unrest, climate change, and gentrification have permanently altered landscapes, obscuring fraught histories.  The main exhibition, Critical Geography at Silver Street Studios and Winter Street Studios at Sawyer Yards, brings together 20 international artists in collectives, all interrogating the politics of space. A smaller show, Ten by Ten, highlights the top artists culled from over 400 portfolio reviews, and the ..read more
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Art Gallery of Ontario Shutters as Worker Strike Begins
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by Maya Pontone
23h ago
Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) is closed today, March 27, as approximately 430 unionized staffers strike for meaningful wage increases and contractual protections for part-time employees. Members of the 535 chapter of the Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU/SEFPO), which includes AGO staff across the museum including assistant curators, archivists, food and hospitality workers, visitor services, researchers, and technicians, launched the strike shortly after midnight yesterday, rallying outside the entrance to the downtown Toronto museum with picket signs that read “Art is f ..read more
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After 19-Day Strike, MASS MoCA Workers Secure Higher Wage
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by Rhea Nayyar
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After nearly three weeks of picketing and eight bargaining sessions, 120 workers at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) reached a new wage agreement with the museum yesterday, March 26. Within 30 days, employees unionized with UAW Local 2110 will earn a minimum hourly wage of $18 and receive annual 3.5% salary increases retroactive to January 1, 2024. In addition, the union also secured time-and-a-half overtime pay for days longer than 10 hours; standard holiday pay for Thanksgiving and Christmas; overtime pay for New Year’s Day, Independence Day, and Labor Day; and a def ..read more
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Artist Richard Serra, Who Warped Space With Steel, Dies at 85
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by Valentina Di Liscia
2d ago
Artist Richard Serra, whose monumental inhabitable sculptures warp our sense of space and time, died at his home in Long Island in New York on Tuesday, March 26. He was 85 years old and the cause was pneumonia, his lawyer John Silberman told the New York Times. Serra was born in San Francisco in 1938 and earned a degree in English from the University of California, Santa Barbara before pursuing painting at the Yale School of Art and Architecture, notably under the mentorship of Bauhaus alumni Josef Albers. Despite this foundational training in two dimensions, Serra came to be celebrated for h ..read more
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