The first weekend of August the Seattle Art Fair gathered local artists, artists from across the country, and artists from across the globe. Inspired by Art Basel and the Venice Biennale, Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen founded the fair in 2015 “with a goal to be a one-of-a-kind destination for the best in modern and contemporary […]Read Post ›
The Pacific Science Center in Seattle teamed up with The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia to bring ten terracotta warriors and hundreds of other objects from the tomb stateside, as well as some objects from before and after the Qin dynasty, they personally chose on their trips to China. The show opened at the Pacific […]Read Post ›
Falling in love with art, from a bike.
It’s been three weeks since we last discussed the insanity that is the museum world. Last time was just an introduction into the subject that it is in fact brave to leave the Museum World. Most of us have been conditioned to buy into the idea that silence is preferred to an honest and […]Read Post ›
The museum is highly problematic, but we normalize it. But we shouldn’t.
At the beginning of March, I had the incredible opportunity to help with the installation of Daniela Rivera’s show, The Andes Inverted, at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. The Andes Inverted is a response to Chile’s copper mine, Chuquicamata. The mine has been worked since before Columbus arrived in the Americas, and is now […]Read Post ›
What does it mean, when the Met is in trouble?
In a recent graduate school interview – after the inauguration – a professor asked me, “what socio-cultural or political situation are you most concerned about in our time?” Immediately after posing the question, he paused, then quipped, “Oh…this question was written before last Friday. I think I know what we’re all most concerned about.” I […]Read Post ›
For the past ten or so months, I have been in a panic. A sort of existential crisis, filled with questions about what the hell to do next. Which, to be entirely honest, was a very privileged and stupid problem. I’ve wanted to do basically the same thing since I was 16: work in a […]Read Post ›
