• selfportrait.net home
  • Blog
  • The Gallery
  • Events
  • Podcasts
  • Shop
  • About

Communications


Subscribe to antARTica by e-mail

RSS Feed RSS Feed

Gut reactions at Twitter

Secret club at Facebook


Regular Contributors

  • Alex Vadukul
  • Dylan Reid Pancer
  • Eddie Ubell
  • Gemma Hedegaard
  • Jonny Sutak
  • Mitch Swenson
  • Neel Senhauser
  • Paris Ionescu
  • Samson White
  • Selby Drummond
  • Selfportrait



Some News Links

  • Middle: Analyze This
    Source: Frieze Magazine Issues
    August 24

    A round table discussion led by Jörg Heiser on ‘super-hybridity’: what is it and should we be worried? With Ronald Jones, Nina Power, Seth Price,. […]
  • You, the World and I (2010) - Jon Rafman
    Source: Rhizome Inclusive: News, Blog, and Digest
    September 6

    When Orpheus’ beloved Eurydice dies, he cajoles his way into the underworld with his musical charms and his lyre. Wanting her but not her shade, he. […]
  • Sotheby's to Sell Group of Exceptional Paintings from the Collection of Supermodel Jerry Hall
    Source: Recent News on Artdaily.org

    LONDON.- SothebyÂ’s announced that it will offer for sale a group of 14 outstanding and revealing Contemporary artworks from the Collection of Jerry H. […]
  • No More Poodles II: Bogue versus Vogue
    Source: Mute magazine - culture and politics after the net
    September 1

    By Ben Watson In the second installment of his music column, Ben Watson wages a war of social being against the hip priests of consensus reality   Â. […]
  • Dance Review – Ann Liv Young as Cinderella at Issue Project Room – NYTimes.com
    Source: Art Fag City
    September 6

    Dance Review – Ann Liv Young as Cinderella at Issue Project Room – NYTimes.com – Wow. Reviews this bad are rare in the Times. But I'm not surpri. […]
  • On sale now: What was the Hipster?
    Source: n+1
    August 27

    Dear readers, we're extremely pleased to announce that the third installment of our small book series, What was the Hipster? is now available for pre-. […]
  • Australia To Fight iPod Use By Pedestrians
    Source: Slashdot
    September 7

    Kilrah_il writes "In recent years the number of people killed on roads in New South Wales, Australia has dropped, but strangely enough, the number of. […]
  • Go See – London: Acclaimed fashion designer Hussein Chalayan crosses over into visual art at the Lisson Gallery through October 2nd, 2010
    Source: AO Art Observedâ„¢
    September 6

    I am Sad Leyla by Hussein Chalayan, via Lisson Gallery My approach has always been interdisciplinary; the new work is an extension of this. There is a. […]
  • The Art of Performance: A Critical Anthology (1984)
    Source: Ubu Web


New Critical Calendar
Coming Soon

  • More events coming soon…
  • View all upcoming events





  • Artists From The Gallery

    Cherry Blossom.jpg
    Cherry Blossom.jpg
    Jack Siegel - Leo in Mexico
    Jack Siegel - Leo in Mexico
    Jack Siegel - Make Out
    Jack Siegel - Make Out
    Eric Shaw, Untitled
    Eric Shaw, Untitled
    Eric Shaw, Untitled
    Eric Shaw, Untitled
    Eric Shaw, Untitled
    Eric Shaw, Untitled
    Robert Dandarov, Malevich
    Robert Dandarov, Malevich

  • Bergen Biennial Conference

    August 30th, 2009
    By: Paris Ionescu
    Topics: Exhibitions/Openings

    From 17-20 September, 2009, the Bergen Biennial Conference will take place.  It’s about time the status of *the biennial* is critically examined by the pool of people most likely to be charged with the task to direct them.  I hope there is plenty of sedition, because it’s needed.  As Dan Fox, senior editor of Frieze, lays it down, perhaps some biennials, Venice in particular, should be postponed for a few years, like a crop left fallow so that new seeds can have a chance to grow.  These shows tend to flatten difference, as Jennifer Higgie writes; and when they are curated wrongheadedly, partly because cultural politics, and economics dictate that they need to pander to as many people as possible, you get vague, catch-all themes like Fare Mondi and Plateau of Humankind. Where do these titles get us as a civilization?  Nowhere.

    Here is the conference’s statement, from their website:

    As scholars and curators have recently acknowledged, the history of exhibitions is both one of the most vital and, paradoxically, ignored narratives of our cultural history. And given the increasing role of biennials and other perennial exhibitions of contemporary art in contemporary culture, it seems all the more necessary to critically examine them today. The impetus to do so now comes in response to the Bergen City Council’s plans to establish a biennial for contemporary art in Bergen, Norway, for which the Bergen Kunsthall has taken up the task of organizing an international conference and think tank to study and discuss the status of the biennial as an exhibition model, and also to launch a debate concerning the plans for a biennial in Bergen.

    The Bergen Biennial Conference will bring together an international group of curators, critics, artists, and thinkers so as to benefit from their discussions of their findings, and create the occasion to reflect collectively about the practice and potential of biennials as institutions. Poised to be one of the most extensive examinations of the biennial phenomenon to date, the conference aims to identify and explore existing ‘biennial knowledge’ from different regions of the world and will be made up of three days of lectures as well as seminar style workshops with young and leading professionals in the field. It will be complemented with an extensive publication, The Biennial Reader, including existing seminal texts on biennials from around the world as well as newly commissioned texts.

    Comments     0 views
    blog comments powered by Disqus

      Categories

      • Art in General
      • Exhibitions/Openings
      • Interviews/Studio Visits
      • Non Art
      • PDFs
      • Science, Technology and Art
      • The Art Market
      • Theory and Criticism



      Poll

      Who's the intellectual heavyweight?

      View Results

      Loading ... Loading ...



      Sites of Note

      • aaaarg.org
      • air de paris
      • Art Observed
      • artbabble
      • Bidoun
      • Brian Holmes
      • ByStory
      • cms.MIT.edu
      • diarch.net
      • Edge.org
      • Farimani
      • Frieze Magazine
      • greylodge
      • How’s My Dealing?
      • hyperallergic
      • Independent Collectors
      • indexhibit
      • installationart.net
      • Lev Manovich
      • Medien Kunst Netz
      • mute magazine
      • nettime
      • radicalart.info
      • Seth Godin
      • Slashdot
      • Texte Zur Kunst
      • The Independent Gaming Source
      • The Next Layer
      • Third Text
      • UbuWeb
      • VVORK





    Copyright © 2008, selfportrait.net