Posted DCist Interview: John G. Hanhardt to DCist
John G. Hanhardt has been working as a consulting curator on film and media at the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM). He’s had an influential career as one of the pioneering curators of media art in North America, helping shape the way museums look at and receive new media within their galleries and collections -- all stemming from his perspective of film’s influence on art and culture in the 20th Century. Hanhardt grew up in...
Posted Earl Cunningham’s America @ SAAM to DCist
Folk art is a debatable curiosity. In terms of painting, on the one side huddles a mass that does not understand why so much fuss is made over artists that cannot "paint well." On the other side is an audience that clamors at how well these artists cannot paint. Spurious claims about the reinvention of painting are casually tossed about. What should never be in question about folk art is its quality: it is neither...
Posted DCist Interview: Paul So, Hamiltonian Founder to DCist
At the end of August, young folks throughout D.C. will have the opportunity to apply for the Hamiltonian Fellowship, a two year program that offers emerging artists further professional development and exposure of their work in the Hamiltonian Gallery, currently under construction at the corner of 14th and U streets NW. The Hamiltonian Fellowship and Gallery is the brainchild of Paul So, a physics professor at George Mason University. While it may seem odd that...
Posted You Aren't As Green As You Are Cabbage Looking to DCist
This evening, Transformer Gallery will be hosting a series of performances collected by artist Fereshteh Toosi to kick off her new exhibit, You're not as green as you are cabbage looking. This show closes out the month-long Exercises for Emerging Artists, curated by Victoria Reis and Niels Van Tomme. Toosi’s work of late is part performance, part interview, and part soda jerk. She asks people questions related to a topical issue or current event. “They...
Posted Transform/Nation: Ellipse Arts Center to DCist
Recess of a Journey #4, 12 inches by 10 inches, mixed media, 2005" src="http://dcist.com/attachments/John James Anderson/2007_0717_RahmanRecess.jpg" width="209" height="300" class="left"/> The most recent show at the Ellipse Arts Center in Arlington, titled Transform/Nation: Contemporary Art of Iran and Its Diaspora, explores the themes of identity, tradition, stereotype, and society that Iranian artists confront within their works. It is a show that is not about to divorce the work on the wall with the history of Iran;...
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