Today from the DS Archives we highlight past exhibitions at the List Visual Arts Center at MIT, and feature the upcoming exhibit, In the Holocene, which “explores art as a speculative science, how artists investigate principles more commonly associated with scientific or mathematical thought. The exhibition proposes that art is an investigative and experimental activity, addressing what is explained through traditional scientific means: time, matter, energy, topology,[…..]

As a part of our ongoing partnership with Art Practical, today we bring you a profile of ISHKY by Alex Bigman. On the afternoon of Wednesday, September 12, 2012, a string of digits appeared across the Bay Area sky. Produced by five skywriting planes equipped with dot-matrix software, the gaseous markings looped around the bay, beginning over San Jose, then circling up to the East[…..]

Don’t you wish sometimes that you could just leave all your worldly possessions behind and live as one with nature? Yes? No? Maybe? Well, if you do, you will probably be interested in the upcoming exhibition at Kunstverein & Stiftung Springhornhof, The Simple Life, which “presents works that from various perspectives address the yearning for modes of lifestyles considering sustainability and naturalness as well as their[…..]

Today from the DS Archives we bring you coverage of Kavi Gupta Gallery’s 2011 summer group exhibition including Nathaniel Donnett, Curtis Mann, Antonia Gurkovska and Theaster Gates. Gates’s work is currently on view at White Cube Gallery until November 11. The following article was originally published on August 9, 2011 by Marta Spurgeon: Outmoded by street festivals, public music events, movies in the parks, and trips to[…..]

Congratulations to the 2012 SECA Award finalists! Zarouhie Abdalian, Elisheva Biernoff, Nate Boyce, Tammy Rae Carland, Anthony Discenza, Liam Everett, Josh Faught, Chris Fraser, Jonn Herschend, Cybele Lyle, Jonathan Runcio, Jesse Schlesinger, Chris Sollars , Stephanie Syjuco, Lindsey White and David Wilson We’ll keep you posted when the winners are announced, and today from the DS Archives we take a look back at the 2010 SECA Award winners. The following article was published on December 17, 2010 by Bean Gilsdorf: The San Francisco Museum[…..]

The current exhibition at the California College of the Arts Wattis Institute, When Attitude Became Form Becomes Attitudes, is a sequel to, and a reevaluation of, the legendary 1969 exhibition When Attitudes Become Form, which was curated by Harald Szeemann at Kunsthalle Bern in Switzerland. It brings together 82 international contemporary artists who follow, in various ways, the legacy of Szeemann’s iconic exhibition. Today from[…..]

Sometimes we all need a bit of convincing to go see a particular exhibition. In the case of  I Wish This Was A Song, the upcoming exhibit at The National Museum of Norway, Museum of Contemporary Art, all you have to do is skim over the ridiculous line up of artists included: Nevin Aladağ, Dave Allen, Apparatjik and Autokolor, Fikret Atay, Tim Ayres, Johanna Billing, Christoph Brech,[…..]