ARTFORUM CRITICS’ PICKS: “the economy of things” at the SMoCA

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Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art is hosting a group sculpture show curated by Cassandra Coblentz. Here is a link to my review of the show in Critic’s Picks. 

Huffington Post: “The School of Things”: Japanese Art c. 1970 Comes to Los Angeles

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My posting on the Mono-ha show that Mika Yoshitake curated at Blum & Poe.

ARTFORUM CRITICS’ PICKS: “Requiem for the Sun: The Art of Mono-ha” at BLUM & POE

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 Katsuro Yoshida, Cut-off (hang), 1969/1986

Wood, rope, stone. Wood: 13 3/4 x 13 3/4 x 130 inches (35 x 35 x 330 centimeters)Rope: 32 feet, 9 5/8 inches (10 meters). Stone: 176.4 pounds (80 kilograms). Installed dimensions variable. Image courtesy of Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

Here is a link to my review of Blum& Poe’s amazing new show of the Mono-ha art, curated my Mika Yoshitake. It will be on view though April 14th, try to see it if you can.

Dr. Julia Friedman Have Been Nominated for 2011-2012 ASASU Centennial Professorship

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Two ASU faculty who havemade significant contributions to the students of Arizona State University through outstanding instruction both within and beyond the classroom receive this award each year.  The award totals $15,000, including a cash prize of $7,500 and a stipend of $7,500 to be used for the benefit of students and classroom teaching.  

Richard Reisman Speaking on H.C. Westermann in our “Beat & Beyond” Seminar”

Peter Plagens and Drohojowska-Philp Lecture at Santa Barbara Museum of Art

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Red Triangles

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Bob Arneson Smoga Bob Bust at the Palm Springs Art Museum

Guess a Painting–Get a Candy!

 Art History Methods seminar at the Herberger Institute fair.
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My essay “The Invisible Cosmology of Chihiro Kabata” is out in print

LASALLE College of the Arts’ Institute of Contemporary Art in Singapore (ICAS) just published the first issue of their new magazine Glossary. Among the essays in the volume is my article on Chihiro Kabata, I co-curated an exhibition of her work at ICAS last Spring.

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Noam Chomsky ASU Lecture

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Dodge Ram full of art. Yeah, baby!

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“Beat and Beyond” Seminar

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Our inaugural speaker Rachel Fried who modeled for the Bay Area Figs in the 1980s.

My Art History Methods Students Presenting at the ASU Museum

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