Monthly Archives: November 2018

Donald Kuspit in Conversation with Peter Drake

Eminent critical theorist Donald Kuspit in conversation with Provost Peter Drake, discusses his life in the arts, his training as a psychoanalyst and developments in the progressive figurative and representational art world. Donald Kuspit is one of America’s most distinguished art critics. In 1983 he received the prestigious Frank Jewett Mather Award for Distinction in Art Criticism, given by the… Read More

Heather Darcy Bhandari: Tips and Advice For Artists

  Heather Darcy Bhandari is an independent curator and co-founder of The Remix (a project-based curatorial team), an adjunct lecturer at Brown University, and a consultant to several for-profit and nonprofit arts institutions. She is also the Creative Director of Art World Conference, a new professional development conference for visual artists. The second edition of her book, ART/WORK, was published by… Read More

Julia Kodl Artist Talk

Julia Kodl is a Los Angeles based concept artist and an art lead at Dreamscape Immersive where she makes the content for story-based, full-roam virtual reality (VR) experiences. Using real-time motion capture technology, full body mapping, virtual reality headsets, and real-life room-scale stage sets, it enables users to move untethered in a virtual environment and interact with both physical and… Read More

Working with Museums: Seph Rodney

Seph Rodney was born on the island of Jamaica and grew up in New York City. He has an English degree from LIU, Brooklyn, a studio art MFA from the University of California, Irvine, and a PhD in museum studies from Birkbeck College, University of London. He is an editor for the Hyperallergic blog, writing about contemporary art and related… Read More

The Gallery/Artist Relationship: a conversation with Rachel Uffner

Rachel Uffner opened her eponymous gallery in fall 2008. Originally located on Orchard Street in New York City’s Lower East Side, the gallery relocated to its current two-story home at 170 Suffolk Street in 2014. The gallery has built up a significant roster of emerging to established artists whom exhibit in significant museum and gallery exhibitions worldwide. Uffner is also… Read More

On Pedagogy: Teaching Today with Nayland Blake

Nayland Blake is an artist, writer, educator and curator. Born in New York City in 1960, they attended Bard College and then California Institute of the Arts. After receiving their MFA, they moved to San Francisco in 1984. They have had one-person exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; University Art Museum, Berkeley; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, and… Read More

A Conversation with Hrag Vartanian, Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Hyperallergic

  The editor-in-chief and co-founder of Hyperallergic, Hrag Vartanian is an editor, art critic, curator, and lecturer on contemporary art with an expertise on the intersection of art and politics.   Hrag co-founded the publication Hyperallergic in 2009 in response to changes in the art world, the publishing industry, and the distribution of information. Breaking news, award-winning reporting, informed opinions,… Read More