In my opinion, the fact that there hasn’t been a major “retrospective” honoring the artistic career of David Bowie is a crime. Luckily, the Victoria and Albert Museum has prepared an unprecedented look into his archives, opening March 23. Today from the DS Archives, we bring you an edition of LA Expanded that looks at Bowie, Bing Crosby, The Beatles and Christmas. The following article[…..]
Today from the archives we bring you an article by Danielle Sommers titled The Light at the End of the Tunnel is an Oncoming Train. The article was originally published on September 11th, 2011 as part of our biweekly series #Hashtags: Viral Thoughts on Politics, Arts, and Culture. ——————— #Hashtags: Viral Thoughts on Politics, Arts, and Culture #Hashtags provides a platform for longer reconsiderations of artworks and[…..]
As a part of our ongoing partnership with Art Practical, today we bring you a feature from writer Bean Gilsdorf on UC Berkeley Art Museum‘s Silence exhibition. In Alan Moore’s graphic novel V for Vendetta, the main character tells his young acolyte, “Silence is a fragile thing. One loud noise and it’s gone.” On my way to the UC Berkeley Art Museum’s Silence exhibition, I had a related thought:[…..]
Today, we are excited to bring you coverage of SEE/SAW: Collective Practice in China Now at The Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA) in Beijing, from our partner ArtSpy, a website based in Beijing, P.R.China that is committed to establishing a platform for global artistic information. This article has been translated from Chinese to English. SEE/SAW ：Collective Practice in China Now was an exhibition held at Ullens Center[…..]
Today from the DS Archives we bring you two artists working during the early to mid 20th century: Kurt Schwitters and Georges Braques. Schwitter’s multi-media collages were recently shown in the US for the first time in 26 years, and Braques’ Cubist still lives are on view at the Kemper Art Museum in St. Louis, MO until April 21, 2013. For the first time in[…..]
As a part of our ongoing partnership with Art Practical, today we bring you a feature from writer Genevieve Quick. In her piece, The Way Beyond Art: Infinite Screens, Genevieve explores the 5-channel video installation Hearsay of the Soul, 2012, by acclaimed artist and filmmaker Werner Herzog. As the fourth and final installment of its exhibition series “The Way Beyond Art: Infinite Screens,” the CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts[…..]
Today from the DS Archives we bring you the 2011 exhibition, “Vision and Communism”at Smart Museum at the University of Chicago in Chicago, IL and the current exhibition “Without Reality, There is No Utopia” at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. Both exhibitions address the effects Communism and politics have on culture and art. The following article was origianally published on November 8, 2011 by Randall Miller: On the night of[…..]
