Philanthropy and Plutocracy

October ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 162 ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea Fraser ◽  
Eric Golo Stone
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
Open Letter ◽  
Government Responsibility ◽  
Cultural Activism ◽  
Ongoing Effort ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Museum Of Contemporary Art

Two texts by Andrea Fraser are reprinted as part of October's ongoing effort to publish contemporary documents of cultural activism that aims to create spaces of progressive resistance to threats of authoritarianism. Written as a speech delivered at the Museum Ludwig Cologne in 2017, Fraser's “Trusteeship in the Age of Trump,” demonstrates how the privatization of social services and the arts through philanthropy is part of a larger withdrawal of government responsibility for the welfare of its citizens. Accompanying the lecture is an open letter, drafted Andreas Fraser and Eric Golo Stone in late 2016 and signed by dozens of art world figures, demanding the resignation of now Treasury Secretary Steven T. Mnuchin from the Board of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

Masters of High and Low: Exhibitions in Dialogue

2020 ◽  
pp. 211-214
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
Public Dialogue ◽  
Art Spiegelman ◽  
Comic Art ◽  
Museum Of Contemporary Art

This is a brief interstitial introduction by art historian Kim A. Munson explaining the importance of and interaction between two blockbuster exhibitions featuring comics, High and Low: Modern Art, Popular Culture (MoMA, 1990) and Masters of American Comics (Hammer & Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2005). This chapter discusses The Comic Art Show (Whitney, 1983), Jonah Kinigstein’s satirical cartoons about the NY art world, and the critical and public dialogue surrounding both High and Low and Masters, which has shaped many of the comics exhibitions that followed. This chapter tracks the team of comics advocates that organized The Comic Art Show (John Carlin, Art Spiegelman, Brian Walker, and Ann Philbin), their reactions to High and Low and the production of Masters of American Comics in response.

An Uneasy Accord: LA Museums Open Their Walls to Comics as True Works of Art

2020 ◽  
pp. 264-270
Author(s):  
Scott Timberg
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Art Spiegelman ◽  
Los Angeles Times ◽  
Works Of Art ◽  
The Future ◽  
Comic Art ◽  
Museum Of Contemporary Art ◽  
Art School

This chapter contains an in-depth exploration of the issues surrounding comics and museums written by cultural journalist Scott Timberg for the Los Angeles Times in 2005 during the opening of the Masters of American Comics exhibition at the Hammer Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. This chapter includes interviews with Ann Philbin, Art Spiegelman, John Carlin, and Brian Walker about the organization of the show. This chapter discusses the valuation of comic art versus fine art, the disillusionment some cartoonists feel about art school and contemporary fine art, and opinions on the future of comic art shows from curators at other museums.

After Masters: Interview with Gary Panter

2020 ◽  
pp. 295-296
Author(s):  
Kim A. Munson
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Comic Art ◽  
Museum Of Contemporary Art

This chapter includes a brief commentary between art historian Kim A. Munson and artist Gary Panter about the legacy of the Masters of American Comics exhibition (2005, Hammer Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) after the show’s ten-year anniversary passed in 2017. This chapter discusses roadblocks and benefits to doing comics shows, the difficulty of being a comics expert, valuation of comic art, kid-friendly shows, problems of the comics canon and categories.

Creational Aesthetics and the Challenge of Conceptual Art

2016 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 663-673
Author(s):  
Steven Félix-Jäger
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Art ◽  
Conceptual Art ◽  
Art World ◽  
Theological Aesthetics ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Essential Form ◽  
God's Image

A trend in theological aesthetics is to advocate for a “creational aesthetic” when discussing the ontology and calling of the artist. In its essential form, a creational aesthetic affirms that artists honor the Creator God by creating art. In some way artists are functioning as God’s image when they make art. While this view is popular in the Christian engagement of the arts, it is uncertain if such an observation is the preeminent way of understanding the role of the artist. Can one be considered an artist if s/he is removed from the tactile process of making? In the contemporary art world, the role of the artist in visual art has come into question with a stronger emphasis on conceptuality, over and against construction. In this article I argue for an alternate way of understanding creational aesthetics that makes room for conceptuality in art.

scholarly journals Metaphor to Métier: Kerry Tribe’s “Aphasia Poetry Club” and the Discourse of Disability in Contemporary Art

Arts ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 49
Author(s):  
Leslie Cozzi
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Brain Injury ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Language Disorder ◽  
Cognitive Disability ◽  
Art World ◽  
Moving Image ◽  
Linguistic Patterns ◽  
A Site ◽  
Conceptual Research

“Metaphor to Métier: Kerry Tribe’s Aphasia Poetry Club and the Discourse of Disability in Contemporary Art” explores a 2015 video work by Los Angeles-based artist Kerry Tribe. Tribe’s “The Aphasia Poetry Club” embodies a shift in contemporary artistic discourse around concepts of physical and cognitive disability. Created by a neurotypical artist, the work uses the medium of the moving image to interpret the experience of aphasia, a neurocognitive language disorder frequently associated with traumatic brain injury. Three distinct visual idioms capture the particular neurological profiles and linguistic patterns of Tribe’s chosen participants. Tribe’s representation of people living with aphasia disrupts ableist conceits about the human capacity for memory and language. Rather than stigmatizing individual impairments, the work is indicative of a new aesthetic arising from disability experience. The article argues that disability no longer functions in the contemporary art world as a political or spiritual metaphor, but rather has become a site of formal invention and conceptual research.

scholarly journals Contemporary Art: World Currents in Transition Beyond Globalization

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 163-173 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terry Smith ◽  
Saloni Mathur
Keyword(s):  
Los Angeles ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Associate Professor ◽  
Art World ◽  
University Of Pittsburgh ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
October 17 ◽  
The University ◽  
Art And Architecture

An edited transcript of a colloquium between Terry Smith, Mellon Professor of Contemporary Art History and Theory at the University of Pittsburgh, and Saloni Mathur, Associate Professor of the History of Art, University of California, Los Angeles, held at the Department of the History of Art and Architecture, University of Pittsburgh, on October 17, 2012.

The Smart Art Market Products from the Contemporary Art World

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pang-Soong LIN ◽  
Jia FU
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Art World ◽  
Art Exhibition ◽  
Mass Consumption ◽  
Market Product ◽  
National Boundaries ◽  
Museum Of Contemporary Art ◽  
Fair Access

The power of the Smart Art Market product has become the vehicles between art and mass consumption of communication. Furthermore, it has across national boundaries and cultural regions that took part in the consumption and public opinion actively. In this trend, typical exhibitions is bridging to an economic model, and Smart Art Market presents a new logic of trade and valuation, ensuring fair access, distribution and acquisition for widely types of art collector. Indeed, this contemporary art exhibition attracts large audiences all the time, such crowed visitors entering the art zone places as the Museum of contemporary art, cultural and creative industrial park, a commercial gallery to visit and establish tourist consume. It breaks the last form of art. On the other hand, Smart Art Market product expand the value systems from the contemporary art world. Within the exhibition program, symbolic meaning from the original work has been discussed and explored.

How Low Can You Go?

2020 ◽  
pp. 257-258
Author(s):  
John Carlin
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
Pop Culture ◽  
Fine Art ◽  
Comic Art ◽  
Museum Of Contemporary Art

This chapter includes a 1990 review of MoMA’s High and Low: Modern Art, Popular Culture by cultural entrepreneur John Carlin, co-curator of The Comic Art Show (Whitney, 1983) and curator of Masters of American Comics (Hammer, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 2005).  This chapter discusses the differences between fine art and pop culture,the importance of excluded topics like jazz, video, and film, and how pop culture is environmental. Carlin explains: “Pop culture is ugly, rude, sexist, racist and politically naive. Fine art is obscure, elitist, misogynist and has no politics. Obviously they were made for each other.”

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