Tastefully developed and carefully curated, The Meadows Museum at Southern Methodist University now holds one of the largest collections of Spanish art outside of Spain. The museum prides itself on displaying widely diversified paintings, a statement I do not fully agree with. Although the two-story museum’s walls are furnished with with a wide variety of subject content there is a chauvinistic sense about their collections. I am not saying there is an unequal ratio of male to female portraits because there isn’t. The museum has a plethora of women as subjects, but they only seem to only display women painted by men.…
Designed to forge connections among art, artists, and the community, the program's collaborative and individual curatorial projects allow students to explore new methods of exhibition presentation-thinking outside of traditional models and training to create relevant, timely and accessible exhibitions for their audiences. This innovative graduate program is the first MFA in Curatorial Practice in the United…
Curated online galleries role is to showcase the work of…
The poem “La Migra” by Pat Mora shows the reader the circumstances of the struggle of the mexican immigrant versus the government border patrol. It is told through children playing a game. In the first stanza, one child is playing as a border patrolman. The child has a badge and gun and chases the other child, playing the mexican maid.…
Hello everyone, this week I would like to include you all in an interesting conversation with an artist I just met by the name of Norax Ayala. Norax does feminist work her at California State University, Long Beach and she is also a graduate student. She grew up in the Inland Empire and went to undergraduate school there before coming to Long beach. She has always been interested in art and decided that she wanted to major in art coming out of high school. She started doing a lot of coloring when she was younger and then transitioned to water color painting.…
Art was the part of the life of people from all centuries. It let people express themselves, to communicate with others, to share messages or ideas and to make life more beautiful. But art exists across history. Art has been transcending through artists until our days. It is important not only to respect world famous artists from previous centuries but also to support modern ones.…
Art is a form of expression and communication using virtual languages. Every artwork has content which can tell the viewers an important message or concept. In The Dallas Art Museum, there are several types of art collected from all over the world that is able to showcase different conceptual themes such as sexuality and gender role of women in society. Since gender role and sexuality is a universal theme, many artworks from the museum exhibits this message. For example, analyzing the art work of Emile Bernard’s and Felix Edouard Vallotton, both artist is able to express the role of women through their works.…
Professional artists will serve as role models and mentors working with young students to explore culture, history and traditions, and stimulate creativity using a broad range of artistic techniques and materials. Student work will culminate in a public exhibit at Centro Cultural…
The documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop” depicts the transformation of a family man obsessed with filming every waking moment, Thierry Guetta, into a self-absorbed and self-proclaimed artist, Mr. Brainwash. In capturing this man’s journey, the documentary brings to light two significant issues in the world of art. The first being the use of assistants to create artwork and the second being the instantaneous success of an artist; whom without the endorsements of already renowned and respected street artists would have never amounted to anything noteworthy. For generations, the use of assistants to create artwork has been an imperative asset to several notorious artists, including Mr. Brainwash.…
The centralization of the practice in Mexico City may seem worrisome at first glance, but it’s important to remember that the greater Mexico’s capital city, with a population of about 21 million, is the confluence point for economy and culture in the whole country. People from all over the country have made Mexico City their home. This, added to the fact that the country has a decentralised arts infrastructure, even though it’s not always completely functional, permit to imagine that the live coding practice will find a proper and healthy expansion throughout the country in years to come. But most importantly, this expansion will occur naturally by the inherent qualities of live coding that combine so well with the needs of the artistic community in Mexico, a new economy country plagued by a long story of corruption and injustice towards most of the population by an ultra enriched and racist elite that systematically suppresses the native cultures and the women in general, making sure to increasingly shrink the possibilities for diversity, inclusion, good education, and artistic expression with every change of government.…
El Anatsui is an inspirational African artist who has inspired the work of many other artists in the contemporary age. He is a mentor to other creative artist who devotes their lives for changing the way people see art, especially African art. In the article, “A Nomad’s Revolutionary Beauty,” the author, Elizabeth Harney, challenges the views of museums and critics about El Anatsui works and how it is limited when put in museums. El Anatsui’s artwork expresses a deeper, global, personal meaning, which is often being limited by museums and critics because of their approach of displaying his art in certain exhibitions. One of the main problems in museums, is the curators have a habit of installing El Anatsui’s work in the exhibitions of African and Contemporary sections.…
The Paradox of the New This paper addresses the main ideas within Boris Groys’ “On the New” as well as other readings presented during the course of the semester, all of which derive from our current relationship with art, collectors, and museums. I discuss the influence of collectors and major art galleries as it pertains to the embedded systems within museum curating, specifically how it affects the behavior of modern artists. The intent of the artist is perhaps the most influential in regards to what is created. It affects every decision of the art process and philosophy. However, there seem to be fallacies within the paradigm, most of which apply to a gallery or museum representation.…
There are distinct images that come to mind when the term biennial is used — sheer number of artworks displayed, intellectual discourse, avant-garde, grand openings and a crowd of visitors that temporarily takes over sites and public spaces that host these biennials. These iconic events which recur at every predetermined number of years render a feeling of happening — a redefinition of the contemporary art scene. But do these images conjured correspond to the reality of biennial events? What differentiates a biennial from other exhibitions that are equally impactful in the history of exhibitions such as “When Attitudes Become Form, Bern 1969”, “Cities on the Move, Vienna 1977” and “The Bulldozer Exhibition, Moscow, 1974”? How are the artworks…
The publication “The Museum as Context” by Amy Tucker analyzes the environment of the museum and how culture and context is changed depending on the environment art is presented in. The purpose of art exhibitions is to show the audience an organized presentation of particular art pieces. The question raised in this chapter is whether the organization of the presentation is precise to represent each piece of work and does this representation distort the meaning of a piece. There are many ways art exhibitions are presented and displayed, from light to temperature. Exhibits can be considered a piece of art themselves due to the specific arrangements and methods of displaying items to connect the viewers with each piece of work.…
Although I am not certain of my specific career path, I hope setting aside time for graduate study will support me in solidifying my passions and finding my purpose. However, in essence I wish to support and facilitate the magic of museums. I am moved by the times I was struck with awe looking at a dinosaur replica as a child, excited by stone tools from ancient societies as a teenager, or inspired by an artist’s dynamic brushstrokes as an adult. I want to internalize these experiences and connections, using my work to recreate them for others. Allowing visitors to forge unique memories while inspiring wonder is my ultimate…