Monthly Archives: February 2011

Facebook, Curator of Culture: Salon des Refusés

EDITOR’S NOTEAfter the Academy posted a response on this blog to facebook’s removal of Steven Assael’s artwork (Jan 31, 2011, 5:22pm), The New York Times, Gawker, MSNBC, The Cornell Daily Sun, The Register, ARTINFO, and other news sources have covered this story. Please see below for photos facebook has removed from the Academy and Academy Alum’s accounts. Where do you draw the line?… Read More

Studio Shots: Jon Beer, Jacob Hicks, Nicolas Holiber

Jon Beer (Painting, class of 2012):  “My work is an exploration of memory and cognition; I’m creating spaces and worlds where the past and present exist simultaneously.  Jacob Hicks (Painting, class of 2012): “I’m focused on the meaning of my name – Jacob – which means ‘to supplant.’I supplant my visage and personal narrative into the continuously reproduced mythologies of… Read More

Winter Fever

A Review by Maria Kozak (MFA 2011)A new year of art is upon us. Though it may have gotten off to a slow start; blame the blizzards, there are some exciting things on the horizon. So shovel yourself out of your winter doldrums and go see these shows. Donald Judd Pace has several formidable artists currently showing; Tara Donovan is… Read More

Lecture: Jeanne Silverthorne

  Jeanne Silverthorne, Nightshade, courtesy McKee Gallery Jeanne Silverthorne is an artist who lives and works in New York. She is best known for sculptures cast in rubber, but her installations often include photographs, videos and kinetic elements as well. She has exhibited at the Whitney Museum of Art, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art,… Read More

Fellows: John O’Reilly

From Columbus, OH, O’Reilly received a BFA from the Columbus College of Art and Design. After a year of attending New York Academy of Art, he was awarded a residency at the Leipzig International Art Programme in 2009 and exhibited there. John’s work has been in group shows at galleries including Danese‘s”Other as Animal,” curated by April Gornik in Chelsea, New York City…. Read More

College Art Association NY AREA MFA EXHIBITION

  Participating Artists: Emily Davis Adams Kiley Ames-Klein Elina Anatole Corinne Beardsley Demetrio Belenky Ramona Bradley Aleah Chapin Diana Corvelle Cara De Angelis Alexandra Finkelchtein Charlotte Foyle Jeffrey Gipe Jason Sho Green Ian Healy Adam LaMothe Shanga Manning Gary Murphy Monica Olsen Guno Park Joseph Ventura Tyler Vouros Shawn Yu

From the distance of a map-maker

By Emily Adams, MFA 2011The recent talk of censorship in the arts has me thinking more about the relationship between map-maker and mapped; gardener and garden; artist and artwork. I came across early survey maps of the American West designed by the US Department of the Interior. A neatly organized drawing carefully, lawfully delineates a landscape of an area of… Read More