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. Happy issue 26! That’s right, folks, we’re six months into a glorious year of HELP DESK. If this column were a baby, it would be rolling over, blowing raspberries, and starting to eat pureed[…..]
Today from the DS Archives we bring you two examples of Feminist art, past and present. First, revisit a past edition of L.A. Expanded, and then buy your plane ticket to Goteborg, Sweden and check out Chitra Ganesh’s current exhibit at Goteborgs Konsthall, She: The Question featuring a psychadelic mash up of Hindu, Greek and Buddhist myths with sci-fi, fanzines and comics. As if you need any more[…..]
This past Sunday, under the beating hot Los Angeles sun, LACMA finally held its inauguration ceremony for “Levitated Mass,” the 340-ton piece of California granite which traveled for 11 days at 8 miles an hour through Southern California, eventually to be placed across a 456-foot long trench in the northwest quadrant of LACMA’s campus. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was there (his speech was mediocre). County supervisor[…..]
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 sponsored in part by KQED.org. The artwork in this week’s edition is part of the exhibition Setting the Scene at the Tate Modern, London, curated by Rachel Taylor and Ann Coxon.[…..]
The human race has been pursuing various utopias probably since we started walking upright. It’s the easiest thing to do, imagine how things could be better. Today from the DS Archives we bring you examples of a personal utopia, Friedrich Kunath’s 2011 exhibition at the White Cube in London, in comparison to a collective utopia as demonstrated by the current exhibition, Utopia is Possible at MOCBA.[…..]
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 co-sponsored by KQED.org. . As an independent curator also affiliated with the programming of a commercial space, I often find a strange tension during studio visits as to whom the visit[…..]
The tenuous/fluid/confusing relationship between art works and the art market have been on my mind a lot lately. So for today’s dip into the DS Archives we take another look at the 2011 exhibition, Next to Nothing: On the Price of Nothing and the Value of Everything at SWG3 Gallery in Glasgow and compare it to the upcoming exhibition I Can’t Work Like This at Casco in[…..]
