Listed on 500 unbound sheets are the names of 500 individuals, who were repressed and executed or died in camp during Stalin’s Great Terror time. Erasing/ defacing was one of the forms of falsification that Stalin’s system widely used. People has been erased not only physically during ‘Purges’ but errased from our history and memories.
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Anti-anti-art is a stance proposed by the Stuckists[1] in their manifestos outlining their art. In it, they take a particularly strong position in opposition to what is known as “anti-art”.
Stuckists claim that conceptual art is justified by the work of Marcel Duchamp, but that Duchamp’s work is “anti-art by intent and effect”. The Stuckists feel that “Duchamp’s work was a protest against the stale, unthinking artistic establishment of his day”, while “the great (but wholly unintentional) irony of postmodernism is that it is a direct equivalent of the conformist, unoriginal establishment that Duchamp attacked in the first place”.
Anti-art is a loosely-used term applied to an array of concepts and attitudes that reject prior definitions of art and question art in general. Anti-art tends to conduct this questioning and rejection from the vantage point of art. The term is associated with the Dada movement and is generally accepted as attributable to Marcel Duchamp pre-World War I, when he began to use found objects as art.
[Experimental art] is always, implicitly or explicitly, an experiment about art itself. By extension whatever is produced must exceed what can be recognized as art. If it did not, if it could be easily defined as art, then it would not be experimental.
Art Basel Miami [HQ]
by ArtListPro (videos)13:17 Thank you Joyce for the great video collage of Art Basel 2009 work in Miami, Florida. This is a really excellent casual overview of some of the work at this massive contemporary art fair.
It is well worth 10 minutes to watch and give a terrific sense of what trends are popular in the international art scene.
http://www.artbasel.com/
Campaign launched in 1986 by Stewart Home which called upon all artists to cease their artistic work between January 1, 1990 and January 1, 1993. Unlike the art strikes proposed by Gustav Metzger and the Art Worker Coalition in the 1960s, it was not merely a boycott of art institutions through artists, but a provocation of artists addressing their understanding of art and their identity as artists.
The Art Strike 1990-1993 campaign received next to no attention in contemporary gallery and museum art, but resonated chiefly in artistic subcultures, above all Neoism and Mail Art. “Art Strike Action Committees”, often run by single activists, existed in London, Ireland, Baltimore, Albany/NY, San Francisco, Montevideo, and Uruguay. An Art Strike newsletter “YAWN” was anonymously published by Lloyd Dunn in Iowa City and appeared in forty five issues during the strike period.
Photo essay (2 of 2) of Hamilton’s Art Crawl on James Street North
More photos of street art, window displays and a chance encounter with a member from the band NO PIZZA. Oh what a web we weave…
Some thoughts on the art and idea of photography
Some thoughts on the art and idea of photography

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One of the reasons I choose to pursue a graduate degree right now is to catch up to what the current thinking is about many of the things I have been interested and involved with in the last 20 years. Communications, new media and art are the three big ones. Some of you hear “animated ad banners on a blog” when I say that, but really I am interested in what we think…
Thanks to http://www.artstarstv.com for putting this event together.
Panel discussion - Some great insight into how art critics for newspapers and magazines think and what considerations they work within.
In this segment: OTINO CORSANO of USart Magazine.
Does not write reviews, but does interviews. Teaches art. Artist who writes. Big fan of LA art scene, does interviews to stay in touch. Friends will recommend friends for interviews. Is Cindy Sherman a bitch? Answer - she’s hot. Secret handshakes. Hole in hand.
“That’s not art. I collect art so I should know.”
Another gem of a statement offered to me while I was gallery sitting yesterday. Guess what? Only paintings that look like photos are really art.
Thus, I am very confused as to what art is if it is not art.
By this gentleman’s logic, a librarian can legitimately judge whether a book is “good enough” to even be a book. If it is not a book, then what is it?
If a movie is so bad as to not be a movie, then what is it?
If a theatre performance is not a theatre performance because I don’t like it – then what does it remain? Or does it become something else?
If I don’t think this gentleman’s opinion is worth very much, can I still consider him an art critic or just a buffoon?
What I do know, after 20 years, is to shut up and smile and nod when dealing with this kind of person. And never vote for them like much of our country did in the last election.
(via “That’s not art. I collect art so I should know.” | The ALP Blog)
7 of Toronto’s bitchiest art critics fess up about what sucks about galleries, artists, art dealers, art fairs, art shows and press releases. Want to know how to crack the press code? Now is your time to raise your hand and CUSS THEM OUT at this first annual panel discussion.
FEATURING THE SUPERVILLIANS (dun dun dun):
DAVID BALZER, OTINO CORSANO, ROSEMARY HEATHER, CHARLENE K. LAU , LEAH SANDALS and MURRAY WHYTE
Wednesday, 02 December 2009: 20:00 - 23:00: 209 Augusta

