Camping in the Dark: Thirtyfour Campgrounds and the Path of Totality
August 21, 2017
Scrambling to find a spot to watch the eclipse? Fear not, below Martin Hogue details three campsites in the path of the total eclipse!
Category: Art
5 Really Great Campsites
August 12, 2017
If you’re looking to get one more camping trip before summer’s end, here are some recommendations from Martin Hogue, author of Thirtyfour Campgrounds.
Year of the Rooster
January 30, 2017
In honor of the Lunar New Year, we share images from China’s Vanishing Worlds by Matthias Messmer and Hsin-Mei Chuang capturing poignant scenes of landscapes and lifestyles in rural China. These photographs depict how the New Year is celebrated in China’s countryside, far from Beijing or Shanghai.
#WorldEmojiDay
July 17, 2016
Happy #WorldEmojiDay! We are celebrating with a passage from Book from the Ground by Chinese artist Xu Bing.
Pride Month: Melancholia and Moralism
June 17, 2016
First published in 2002, Douglas Crimps’s Melancholia and Moralism is a collection of his addresses and essays spanning fifteen years, through the identification of AIDS and the rise of homophobia. A nuanced meditation on queer politics and activism, the book serves as a reminder of the challenges society still faces, especially in light of the tragedy in Orlando. The following is an excerpt from the chapter “Mourning and Militancy,” which was first presented at the “Gay Men in Criticism” session of the English Institute at Harvard University in August 1989.
Pride Month: Meanings of “Queer”
June 3, 2016
Historically, “queer” was the slur used against those who were perceived to be or made to feel abnormal but beginning in the 1980s, the word was reappropriated and embraced as a badge of honor. Queer edited by David Getsy is centered on writings that describe and examine the ways in which artists have used the concept of queer as a site of political and institutional critique, as a framework to develop new families and histories, as a spur to action, and as a basis from which to declare inassimilable difference. The first post in our series celebrating Pride Month features an excerpt from David Getsy’s Introduction to Queer.
Five Minutes with Kate Eichhorn
March 23, 2016
For today’s Five Minutes with the author, we have Kate Eichhorn, discussing her book Adjusted Margin. Adjusted Margin is the story of how xerography became a creative medium and political tool, arming artists and activists on the margins with an accessible means of making their messages public.
A Look Back at Black Mountain College
February 2, 2016
Though the exhibition “Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957” recently closed at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, Vincent Katz, editor of Black Mountain College: Experiment in Art, tells us how we can learn more about the small school in North Carolina where the course of art history changed forever.
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957
December 18, 2015
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, an exhibition currently showing at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, focuses on how Black Mountain College (BMC) became a seminal meeting place for many of the artists, musicians, poets, and thinkers who would become the principal practitioners in their fields of the postwar period. “Leap Before You Look,” the first exhibition in the US to examine BMC as a hotbed for the American avant garde, opened on October 10, 2015 and will show through January 24, 2016. Senior Production Coordinator Christine Savage recently checked it out and shares the following insights:
Five Minutes with Midori Yamamura
October 2, 2015
Yayoi Kusama, the most famous Japanese artist to emerge after World War II, rose quickly in the art world exhibiting with superstar artists such as Andy Warhol and Claes Oldenburg. Though Kusama may not be as well-known as Warhol and Oldenburg, her work has recently gone through a resurgence in scholarly interest along with a series of major exhibitions. Midori Yamamura’s new book Yayoi Kusama: Inventing the Singular strays from the biographical and emphasizes how her work influenced the art world.