June 2013
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This week’s Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Shirin Neshat. The Detroit Institute of Arts debuts a mid-career survey of Neshat’s workon Sunday, April 7. The exhibition, organized by curator Rebecca R. Hart, remains on view through July 7. The museum has published this catalogue in conjunction with the show.
Neshat is one of the most prominent Iranians living in the West. Neshat has been the subject of major survey exhibitions at museums in Spain, Germany, England, Italy, Mexico, Canada and the United States. Among many other honors, she won the Silver Lion at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival for “Women Without Men” and the First International Award at the 1999 Venice Biennale. She was a guest on Episode No. 11 of The MAN Podcast when she debuted her “The Book of Kings” series of photographs at New York’s Barbara Gladstone Gallery.
On the second segment, artist Kelly Richardson discusses the mid-career survey of her work that’s at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo through June 9. Titled “Legion,” the exhibition was organized by Alistair Robinson for the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland, England. The Albright is the exhibition’s only U.S. stop. The show is accompanied by a catalogue titled “Kelly Richardson: The Last Frontier.” More information on Richardson and her work is available on her website. Extended clips from several of her works are available on Vimeo, including The Erudition, Mariner 9, Leviathan and Twilight Avenger.
How to listen: Download the show to your PC/mobile device. Subscribe to The MAN Podcast via iTunes, SoundCloud, Stitcher or RSS. See images of art discussed on the program.
This Is What Art School in China Looks Like →
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Despite Chinese spending on art shrinking by nearly a quarter in 2012, there’s still a huge demand for art school. Like, crazy huge. Like, willing to wait in line for hours and push people down to get in the building huge. Nearly 10,000 people applied to theShandong University of Art and Design this year, traveling to Ji’nan in Eastern China for a chance to prove they deserve one of the school’s coveted spots. It’s pretty hard not to applaud the dedication of these students, especially when you consider the state of the Chinese art market right now. And that they had to wait in 21 degree whether. And that only 30% of applicants get in. And that…well, you get it. It’s hard out there for an artist. [via Bullett]
March 2013
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“
You already have permission.
Just saying.
You have permission to create, to speak up, and stand up.
You have permission to be generous, to fail, and to be vulnerable.
You have permission to own your words, to matter and to help.
No need to wait.
” —Seth Godin, who also said “No one is going to pick you, pick yourself”.
“You have to be willing to tolerate the discomfort of believing in yourself.”
—Mandy Stadtmiller, on success. via a great xoJane article.
