Help Desk is an arts-advice column that demystifies practices for artists, writers, curators, collectors, patrons, and the general public. Submit your questions anonymously here. All submissions become the property of Daily Serving. Help Desk is cosponsored by KQED.org. Dear Help Desk, I have a nagging suspicion a prominent curator in my town feels slighted by my inaction to follow up on a studio visit he solicited.[…..]
Today from the DS Archives we take another look at the exhibition of Louise Bourgeois’s work at De Hallen in Haarlem, The Netherlands. The Faurschou Foundation’s current exhibition, Alone and Together, presents and overview of Bourgeois’s seven-decade career. The following article was originally posted on November 24, 2011 by Georgia Haagsma:
Mitt Romney had binders full of women, #Hashtags has “The Art of Being Female.” Originally published March 13, 2012. Please send queries and/or ideas for future columns to hashtags@dailyserving.com. #Hashtags provides a platform for longer reconsiderations of artworks and art practices outside of the review format and in new contexts. If you’re young and female, I hope you’re introduced to a positive mentor early enough[…..]
There is much talk in Perth of the city’s isolation, of the role that global mobility might play in local contemporary art practice. ‘Mobility’ here is a necessity, inevitable in some form, although its direction is another question as the city remains attached to a European history that is far from the reality of the continent and region. These concerns are visible undercurrents in Yonder,[…..]
For this edition of Fan Mail, Kevin Frances of Providence, Rhode Island has been selected from our worthy reader submissions. Two artists are featured each month—the next one could be you! If you would like to be considered, please submit your website link to info@dailyserving.com with ‘Fan Mail’ in the subject line. Kevin has made several renditions of rooms filled with ceramic objects, using screen[…..]
Long entrenched in British literary tradition, parody, pastiche and caricature have, more recently, been revived in contemporary British urban art. Street artist Banksy’s foray into social criticism of war, art world commercialism and totalitarianism (just to name a few) or Mau Mau’s sprawling colourful murals, elaborately scrawled on public surfaces are such notable instances of irreverent commentaries that satirise and caricaturise. A more domestic, less[…..]
Help Desk is an arts-advice column that demystifies practices for artists, writers, curators, collectors, patrons, and the general public. Submit your questions anonymously here. All submissions become the property of Daily Serving. Help Desk is cosponsored by KQED.org. What is the most professional way to handle a guest breaking a piece of artwork at an opening? This has happened to me a couple of times this[…..]
