Check out this article from our own intrepid blogger Richard McCoy as he interviews artist Tara Donovan:
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While you’re at it, don’t miss the latest from IMA Director Maxwell Anderson on environmental control in art museums:
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Filed under: Art, Conservation, Current Events, Exhibitions
With only 48 hours in the South Korean capital of Seoul, and 15 major museums to choose from, I gambled on the National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, with no regrets. Before you enter the building, you’re greeted by an installation that re-interprets a quintessential lotus flower in mod, weatherproof vinyl. This work by Choi Jeong Hwa opens and closes every two minutes.
Inside, we spied a familiar feast: a circular tower of TVs spewing the pop-optical jam of Nam June Paik (an artist also represented in the IMA’s collection).
The two special exhibitions on view included Peppermint Candy, Korean art from the last 20 years, and Megacity Network: Contemporary Korean Architecture, Seoul. Both shows nailed South Korea’s speed-of-light cultural production, considering that the country was ravished by civil war 60 years ago. Read the rest of this entry »
This post was written by IMA Public Affairs intern Margaret Sutherlin. She is a senior at DePauw University in Greencastle, IN, and plans to graduate as a double major in English Writing and Political Science. Post graduation she hopes to find a job before attending graduate school.
Working at the IMA for the past few weeks has only seemed to heighten this nagging observation I noticed years ago. There are two types of people when it comes to any, but especially, an art museum visit: those willing visitors and those who would simply rather not. Each side is a simple preference, like cats over dogs, or vanilla over chocolate, Cubs or Cardinals. The preference exists in our families and friends, each side representing itself at one time or another. But this ‘preference’ to go or not go visit an art museum, seems to be a bit of an annoying, elusive thing to solve or make sense of. I have rarely heard of a middle ground on the subject, nor experienced it, and it always seems to be people either do or do not want to go to an art museum. In a recent 4th of July adventure to St. Louis I experienced the two-sided argument once again.
Known for his DIY street art OBEY in the late 90′s, and more recently for his Obama ‘Hope’ poster, artist Shepard Fairey is teaming up with Saks Fifth Avenue for their latest marketing effort.
The campaign includes Russian Communist inspired artwork on limited-edition bags, window displays, catalogs and an in-store presentation, all hitting stores on March 12.
Saks' Spring campaign
Filed under: Current Events, Design, Marketing
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