A few recent articles in the news have praised both Anna Paquin and Livia Firth (married to Colin Firth) on the fabulously “green” dresses they wore to the Golden Globes. (Paquin chose a dress from cruelty-free fashion designer Stella McCartney, and Firth chose a re-purposed wedding dress.) So what exactly is meant when we talk … More Just what exactly is "eco-fashion," anyway?
Last week, the College Art Association announced that radical California-based artist Suzanne Lacy will be the recipient of the 2010 Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement. Lacy will be formally recognized Feb. 10th at the upcoming annual CAA convention. The CAA writes: The continuum of Suzanne Lacy’s career mirrors the history of contemporary art: performance, … More Suzanne Lacy at CAA
One of the most successful films by iconoclastic filmmaker Derek Jarman, Caravaggio (1986), will be screening at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 21st, at The Plaza Theatre in Calgary. The film helped launch the careers of Tilda Swinton, Sean Bean, and Robbie Coltraine, and its title character has been coined by Newsweek as “a bold, … More Caravaggio screening + book launch
Juliet Koss talks with NPR Berlin’s “The Berlin Journal” radio show about her forthcoming book Modernism after Wagner (February 2010). She iterates that this is not just another book on Wagner, rather it is about his term Gesamtkunstwerk, how it is a term often thrown around yet not clearly defined and contextualized. She says: Certainly … More On the Gesamtkunstwerk
Great news: Matthew Biro’s The Dada Cyborg: Visions of the New Human in Weimar Berlin, has been named one of four finalists for the College Art Association’s Charles Rufus Morey Book Award, which honors an especially distinguished book in the history of art. Congratulations, Matthew! On a related note: Next month we will be mailing … More The Dada Cyborg
The University of Minnesota Press has collaborated with International Arts & Artists to distribute Wendy A. Grossman’s Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens, which features more than 70 photographs by the American artist and uncovers a virtually unknown chapter in his inventive activities. An exhibit at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, is … More Man Ray, African Art, and the Modernist Lens
Art historian, curator and associate professor at the University of Texas-Austin Roberto Tejada, author of Celia Alvarez Muñoz and National Camera: Photography and Mexico’s Image Environment, discusses Muñoz and her work as a conceptual and multimedia artist in this Hammer lecture video. Chon Noriega, editor of University of Minnesota Press’s A Ver Series and author … More Roberto Tejada and Chon Noriega on Celia Alvarez Muñoz
The American Craft Council conference begins in Minneapolis today (through Saturday), and this year’s topic is “Creating a New Craft Culture.” In an article about the conference, its context, and the conversations taking place at this event, MinnPost quotes craft historian Sandra Alfoldy: “It’s a cycle isn’t it? Much of what’s going on now is … More Culture & Craft
