Today from the DS Archives we bring you British installation artist, Simon Starling. His current exhibition, Trois cent cinquante kilogrammes par mètre carré, will be on view at La Kunsthalle Mulhouse from 24 May–26 August 2012. The exhibition features new works inspired by the architecture of the building that houses the Contemporary Art Centre, the University of Upper Alsace, and the Mulhouse town archives. The following article was[…..]
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. How important is it to consider the intent of an artist when viewing his or her work? Your position on this matter depends on how you feel about[…..]
Today from the DS archives we dig deep to bring you an early article written about Daniel Lefcourt. His current show, Mockup, is on view at White Flag Projects until June 23, don’t miss it! “Mockup is a storage room, a stage set, a mausoleum, a trade show, a diagram, a game board, a studio, a retail store, a pictograph, a classroom, a museum display, an[…..]
Last year, #Hashtags featured an essay by the Mexican-American artist and writer Robert Gomez on the relationship between online images of drug cartel violence and Aztec rituals, which we rerun today in light of the recent escalation in Mexican cartel violence. The discovery Sunday of 49 mutilated bodies on a highway near Monterrey, Mexico, brings this month’s total to almost a hundred. Analysts speculate that[…..]
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. This week’s column is accompanied by images from Wynne Greenwood‘s recent show “Peace In” at Lawrimore Project in Seattle. Do you think that learning the technique of mediums[…..]
Today from the DS Archives we venture not too far into the past to Sharon Lockhart’s exhibition of her film Lunch Break at the SF MoMA in 2011 and alert of of her new exhibition Double Tide, currently on view at Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló. In her new film, Lockhart continues her meditative observation of everyday events, this time focusing on one of the few[…..]
40,000 bottle rockets make for a lot of noise and a lot of glare. Especially when they come hurtling toward your face. On April 7, 2012, artist Cai Guo-Qiang — known for his gunpowder drawings and performative “explosion events” — opened Sky Ladder at MOCA’s Geffen Contemporary location with just such an experience. Called Mystery Circle, the event was pure spectacle. Over a thousand people[…..]
