The three days I spent in Portland for PSU's Open Engagement Conference were blessed with perfect weather, and the city seemed lush and magical. I'd never been ...
If you didn't catch my recent Huffington Post contribution, I wanted to re-post it here. It is a reworking and reapplication of the post below from March 6th. T...
If one has one's ear to the pulse of the institutional art world, there is no question that museums have begun to implement major shifts in the way they engage ...
I had two experiences in the past week in which students in a high-level pedagogical situation rejected all discussion of artistic theory or concept in favor of...
I’ve recently been talking to several cultural practitioners about how to educate those with a more traditional notion of art in understanding and contextuali...
This call for submissions recently came to my attention. Though I am not sure about how this conference will coalesce into the social artwork it proposes to be,...
I recently wrote an article on similarities in the recent evolution of anarchist groups in Los Angeles and art collectives or artists engaging in social practic...
“How might one structure an institution that is designed to problematize the idea of the institution?”
In Summer’s Artforum, Taraneh Fazeli poses this ques...
My student educators were fortunate enough to meet Bob Gober a few weeks ago on a walkthrough of the Charles Burchfield retrospective he curated at the Hammer. ...
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...
