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How To Archive Performance ArtFor 750 hours, Marina Abramović sat in a chair and stared at strangers. It was 2010 and this feat of endurance was part of her retrospective, The Artist Is Present, at MoMA. Thousands of people eagerly queued up for the privilege of staring back at her. A retrospective is a particularly interesting venue for a…
Why Should I Archive My Art?Seriously—you’re an artist, not a gallerist or a museum curator. You’re here to create pieces that have meaning to you and that can communicate what you want to say to the world. You’re in it for the tubes of oil paints and watercolors, the charcoals, the pencils, the inks, the canvases, the collage, the clay,…
Discovering the Undiscovered: Armory Show’s Focus This Year on African ArtThe Armory Show is one of New York’s most famous and important international art fairs, offering high-quality modern and contemporary art with a focus on new and emerging voices in the visual arts world. 2016's Armory Focus was African Perspectives—Spotlighting Artistic Practices of Global Contemporaries. It will examine the art world from a contemporary African…
The Changing Face Of The Art MuseumPicture an art museum—you’re probably thinking of a huge building with either a classical facade or a super-modern edifice with lots of windows and unusual angles. The art inside of it is probably divided into sections by time period and geography. And it probably has a room or two for temporary exhibits. For a lot…
Fake Fur And Feminism: The Guerrilla Girls Are Fighting For Equality In 1984, MoMA opened an exhibition, “An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture," to showcase the most important contemporary artists in the world. In total, it included the works of 169 artists. Of those, 13 were female. In response, a group of 7 female artists donned gorilla masks to protest the gender bias…
Oh! You Pretty Things: The Art Collection Of David BowieHow can we describe David Bowie? Musician? Muse? Radical? Legend? Starman? The only word that even comes close is simply “artist.” From his music and lyrics to his sets and costumes to his personas, Bowie treated everything as an act of creation. His fascination with the aesthetic extended beyond creating art to collecting it. “Art,”…








