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. This week our intrepid columnist is traveling, so we’re reprinting one of our very favorite questions: I have a strange question involving an incident I witnessed two years[…..]
Today, From the DS Archives takes another look at Sterling Ruby‘s 2011 solo exhibition at Sprueth Magers in Berlin. Early next month Ruby’s work will be in a group exhibition titled Cellblock I & Cellblock II, curated by Robert Hobbs at Andrea Rosen Gallery in Los Angeles. Cellblock I & Cellblock II will also feature works by Peter Halley, Robert Motherwell, and Kelley Walker. The[…..]
L.A. Expanded: Notes from the West Coast A column by Catherine Wagley I was slapped by a child named Sam who must have been 4 years old the last time I visited Friederich Kunath’s show Lacan’s Haircut at Blum & Poe. Sam was playing with his sister on the bright yellow carpet in the first gallery — each subsequent gallery has bright carpet too, orange[…..]
It’s autumn in London – the sun-dappled days at Hyde Park become distant memories as my brief trip back to California enters my rear view. The temperature drops, the leopard-print bikini begins its hibernation, and I stock up on Wolford tights again. The droves of art world professionals have returned from their envy-inducing Facebook check-ins in Saint-Tropez and Positano to the sudden realisation that Frieze week is[…..]
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[…..]
