Sudden death (2010) Ron Diorio On our trip to Philadelphia on Friday, Peter Hay Halpert and I were talking about Bill Parcell’s quote “You are what your record says you are” and how it could be applied to the visual arts. My record according to Google. World wide searches as a proxy for score keeping. [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Even a good dealer cannot make an untalented artist successful
Posted in Reading, Thinking, tagged contemporary art, dealers, gallery, tyranny of consensus on May 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Pride (2005) Ron Diorio From the Art Newspaper: Elite art: how to get a foot in the door Art adviser Allan Schwartzman says strategic placement is a gallery’s core obligation to its artists. “A primary market gallery’s principal job is to protect the developing and fragile markets of artists,” says Schwartzman. “It would be easy [...]
Why are panels on New Media Art often not webcast
Posted in Reading, Thinking, tagged new media art, New museum on May 12, 2010 |
Seems counter intuitive ….. This seems like a very good panel , you’d think that the institution that runs Rhizome would use these tools themselves. From Art Fag City New Media Critics Panel At The New Museum Tonight. Our panel will examine how critics approach new media today. How do they define the subject, and [...]
Kill your curators
Posted in Reading, Thinking, tagged art without artists, arts institution, contemporary art, curation, curators, e-flux on May 9, 2010 |
Becher cliché (2010) Ron Diorio As critics fade, another institution fills the vacum …. From Art Without Artists? But imagine the frustration of the artist who believes herself to be liberated from the tyranny of the critic only to discover that the situation has changed: rather than two competing powers—the critic and the curator, who [...]
NYC premiere: What I did during the war (Parts 1-4)
Posted in Exhibitions, Images, Multimedia, tagged misc: video and performance, new york studio gallery, what i did during the war on May 7, 2010 |
I am pleased to announce the NYC premiere of What I did during the war (Parts 1-4). It will take place as part of the New York Studio Gallery’s MISC: Video and Performance Exhibition May 27, 2010 thru June 26, 2010 This also marks the first time my video work will be screened in New [...]
