While Making Art

"Here, the term is reclaimed not as an insult but as an ethical position: art that refuses neutrality, civility, or institutional comfort when those postures function as cover for violence and bigotry."

The Importance of Making “Degenerate” Art Here, the term is reclaimed not as an insult but as an ethical position: art that refuses neutrality, civility, or institutional comfort.

Both works might have been labeled “degenerate” and included in the Nazi Party’s 1937 Entartete Kunst (Degenerate #Art) exhibition, which sought to shame modernist #artists as threats to moral order...
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"Hopefully this latter case of ‘muting’ merely proceeds from a misguided attempt to ignore what is obviously now unacceptable."

"Predictably, however, only the impassioned debates between Victorio Edades and Guillermo Tolentino on matters of distortion and representation get heavy play in Philippine art history, and not the Yabes-Arguilla exchanges on #sexism among artists...

"Curiously, the Yabes-Arguilla et al. exchanges happened on the pages of the Herald Midweek Magazine, which is in the family of publications where the initial modernist-conservative debates had taken place before World War II...

On reading Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez's 'Art on the Back Burner: #Gender as the Elephant in the Room of Southeast Asian Art Histories', published in Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in #Asia. #arthistory

Why Are We Paying for the Privilege of Rejection? Application fees are one of the least examined but most pervasive forms of class stratification in the arts.

A good read for practicing #artists by @hyperallergic.com
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Heard from The Great Women Artists podcast.

"You have to recognize that there is no secret to attaining any kind of prominence in the #art world. You have to work hard at what it is you’re doing and if people don’t like it now, don’t worry about it..."
Faith Ringgold's advice to young #artists.
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Mladen Stilinović, An #Artist Who Cannot Speak English Is No Artist, 1992. Photo from www.shift.jp.org. Encountered the piece while reading Lyra Garcellano's essay 'Southeast Asian Artist: To Be Or Not To Be - Abstracted Notes, Speculations and Dreams of Reset' www.afterall.org/articles/sou... #art

#Mosaic Table, Lee Krasner, 1947, #art #artist
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NYC visit 2023 Also a compassion market of free-to-take groceries, diapers, and cleaning essentials in a church; a place offering dog retreats; a bookstore doing a banned books week; a store with an Eat (buy and …

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One of the most entertaining #episodes of the #podcast that I've listened to...
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Priest Priest by Gede Mahendra Yasa

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#art #indonesia

#art

CHECK-IN 2024 — Art & Market

The #Online #Exhibition — Do We Like Them Yet? #gaming, custom digital environments, curated app, etc.
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"Perhaps the artist was uprooted as a child plucked from a safe childhood home and transplanted to some kind of setting of extreme urban decay."

Racquel de Loyola's Mound. #performanceart #art
"In this piece, the artist was half-buried by a mound of rubble... Mound's statement seemed to be about the absence of moorings in a childhood marred by displacement from a childhood home."
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#art #artist

Mona Hatoum | Grater Divide (2002) | Artsy From Centre Pompidou, Mona Hatoum, Grater Divide (2002), Mild Steel, 204 × 3.5 cm

#art #sculpture www.artsy.net/artwork/mona...

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#art #painting

Check out the Free-for-all show under #fringeartsbath 2025. Click the link for the virtual #gallery #art
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Toward a Maternal Gaze | Broadcast We’ve heard the warnings: children will drain your time, your money, and your focus. But what might a writer gain from motherhood?

Mothers' day
"If the male gaze sees desired objects, and the female gaze sees autonomous beings with desires of their own, the maternal gaze sees something further: those desires locked in a merciless struggle with responsibility to others."
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R.H. Lossin on AI art and hegemony part 2 - Criticism - e-flux This is the second part of an essay by R.H. Lossin on the relationship between art, artificial intelligence, and emerging forms of hegemony. Th

"The consumption of generative #AI as #entertainment seems like another order of psychic submission." - R.H.Lossin
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#networking #artist

'sitting still'

"I shall get up Sunday morning and wind the clock, as a contribution to order and steadfastness" - E.B. White #art #writers #letters
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Language of governance: from Singapore Images dated 2020 and 2023

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Legendary Cellist Pablo Casals, at Age 93, on Creative Vitality and How Working with Love Prolongs Your Life “The man who works and is never bored is never old. Work and interest in worthwhile things are the best remedy for age.”

"Of course the gift to be cherished most of all is that of life itself. One’s work should be a salute to life." #art #creativity
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