As an advocate for social practice and a former staff and board member of the Watts House Project, I feel a responsibility to respond to the recent LA Times article lambasting the Watts House Project and the character of its founder, Edgar Arceneaux.
Yesterday and the day before, the Getty held a conference entitled "Perspectives on Progressivism and the Museum," which was a laudable effort to gather museu...
To art or not to art, that is the morally-inflected question many of these young artists are trying to work through. Certainly, works that are inherently participatory and aim to be expansive or community-based or even (gasp) aim to affect real social and political change, will involve audience and participants that do not have an art historical background or language, or indeed any way of locating what they are encountering as "art."
Every couple of months at the Hammer, a group of older women from a Brandeis Alumni group come for a tour and lunch in the museum cafe. I had the pleasure of to...
One huge challenge I see in social practice is an enormous shift in the kind of working method and knowledge base required of these artists than those who wor...
@ apexart coming up...
The Incidental Person
Curated by Antony Hudek
January 6 to February 20, 2010
Opening reception: January 6, 6-8 pm
"The "Incident...