seeing is a kind of thinking

contemporaryartdaily: Thomas Hirschhorn at Alfonso Artiaco

Fri, 10 May 2013 16:17:12 -0500

contemporaryartdaily:

Thomas Hirschhorn at Alfonso Artiaco

grupaok: Goshka Macuga, Collage for Of what is, that it is; of...

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:20:32 -0500

grupaok:

Goshka Macuga, Collage for Of what is, that it is; of that is not, that it is not, 2013

Jayson Keeling, Solo, 2009 Still from single channel...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 12:00:43 -0500

Jayson Keeling, Solo, 2009
Still from single channel video

Work in Psychosexual at Andrew Rafacz Gallery in Chicago

Sonic Youth + Mike Kelley, Plato’s Cave, Rothko’s...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:45:05 -0500

Sonic Youth + Mike Kelley, Plato’s Cave, Rothko’s Chapel, Lincoln’s Profile, 1986

Click through for audio

blackcontemporaryart: William Pope.L, Skin Set Drawings: The...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 13:00:56 -0500

blackcontemporaryart:

William Pope.L, Skin Set Drawings: The Space Between the Letters, 2013

Opening April 28 at the Renaissance Society

Jefferson Pinder, Black Power/White Light

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:01:54 -0500

Jefferson Pinder, Black Power/White Light

Who Wore It Better is pretty sweet

Thu, 11 Apr 2013 15:14:29 -0500

Who Wore It Better is pretty sweet

blackcontemporaryart: creativetime: Nick Cave (Soundsuits,...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 11:35:04 -0500

blackcontemporaryart:

creativetime:

Nick Cave (Soundsuits, HEARD•NY) meets Nick Cave (singer, The Bad Seeds)!

Too good not to reblog.

Crying

Audio

Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:24:51 -0500

Robert Frank, Trolley - New Orleans, 1955

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 16:01:23 -0500

Robert Frank, Trolley - New Orleans, 1955

themuseumjunkie: Works by Glenn Ligon as a message of...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:18:04 -0600

themuseumjunkie:

Works by Glenn Ligon as a message of solidarity with the Oberlin community of color.

Via Nona Brown: Last night, someone dressed in KKK robes was spotted walking on south campus. Classes are cancelled. We can all this day to support the targeted members of our community and show our solidarity.

SHOW YOUR SUPPORT, THIS HAS GONE TOO FAR

10 AM: Poster-making, Wilder MRC
12 PM: Teach-in at A-House
2 PM: Student rally, Wilder Bowl
3:30: Convocation, Finney

As an Oberlin alum, I’m disgusted by what has been going on at my beloved school. The administration is taking a good first step by cancelling classes today, but a lot of work needs to be done.

art21: “This idea of repetition and revision is central to my...

Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:13:12 -0600

art21:

“This idea of repetition and revision is central to my working process—this idea of stacking and layering and building up densities and recoveries. He’s been altered in a way that the-character-that-is-now-my-conscripted Isaac Hayes should be altered to be in my lexicon.”
—Ellen Gallagher

Ellen Gallagher, currently featured for 100 Artists, is seen here at Two Palms Press in New York working on Isaac from her series DeLuxe (2004–2005), as featured in our Season 3 episode, Play (2005).

The artist’s printmaking process involved multiple techniques—including lithography, tattoo engraving, and laser-cutting—and materials such as crystals, gold leaf, velvet, and plasticine.

WATCH: Ellen Gallagher in Play [available in the U.S. only] | Exclusive: Ellen Gallagher: Master Printer Craig Zammiello

IMAGES: Production stills from the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 3 episode, Play, 2005. Segment: Ellen Gallagher. © Art21, Inc. 2005.

blackcontemporaryart: Kara Walker (American, born 1969) is...

Fri, 22 Feb 2013 02:26:37 -0600

blackcontemporaryart:

Kara Walker (American, born 1969) is best known for cut-paper silhouettes that critically address race, gender, sexuality, and power. Most often taking the form of large-scale tableaux of antebellum stereotypes, they present slavery as an absurd theater of eroticized violence and self-deprecating behavior. Her flat caricatures—mammies, sambos, slave mistresses, masters, and Southern belles—are depicted nearly life-size, arranged in narrative sequences that further exaggerate the already grotesque history of slavery. For Walker, the simplified details of a human form in the black cutouts resonate with racial stereotypes. She has said, “The silhouette says a lot with very little information, but that’s also what the stereotype does.”

Images: Installation shots from Kara Walker: Rise Up Ye Mighty Race on view at The Art Institute of Chicago

lacassonade: Hebru Brantley

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 10:13:35 -0600

lacassonade:

Hebru Brantley

Wadsworth Jarrell, Revolutionary,

Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:10:41 -0600

Wadsworth Jarrell, Revolutionary,

blackcontemporaryart: Coco FuscoThe Undiscovered Amerindians,...

Wed, 13 Feb 2013 11:18:47 -0600

blackcontemporaryart:

Coco Fusco
The Undiscovered Amerindians, 2012

Kara Walker, National Archives Microfilm PublicationM999 Roll...

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:58:43 -0600

Kara Walker, National Archives Microfilm PublicationM999 Roll 34: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands: Six Miles from Springfield on the Franklin Road, 2009

Ellen Gallagher, IGBT, 2008

Wed, 06 Feb 2013 20:54:00 -0600

Ellen Gallagher, IGBT, 2008

Glenn Ligon, Figure #20, 2009

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 13:11:20 -0600

Glenn Ligon, Figure #20, 2009

Rockne Krebs, Day Passage, 1971

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 22:15:12 -0600

Rockne Krebs, Day Passage, 1971