Tweet Willie and Patrick had an idea — and it was not for a web series. “We should open a gallery…. I have an art history degree. Fuck pilot season. I’m sensing a whole new direction for me….for, ugh, us,” Willie says. “And I can wipe my father-in-law’s face in the excrement of his own [...]
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Web Series Spotlight: ‘Whole Day Down’ Enlists Willie Garson and Patrick Breen for the Artpocalypse
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 2nd, 2011
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Is Black Queer Back?
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on June 24th, 2010
Tweet Thanks to Racialicious for reposting! In Brooklyn one night in May I was treated to my very first performance from Monstah Black, an artist who defies categorization, but whose show I would characterize as part-rock concert, part-live art theatre, with a black queer bent. Despite my awe I managed to divert my eyes long [...]
ArtSpace Underground: New Haven’s New York Art Party
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on March 17th, 2010
Tweet My good friend Madison Moore has organized an art party in New haven, a kind of hipster-y, New York-cool party in stodgy ol’ Connecticut. The party, Artspace Underground, is held at Artspace New Haven, a non-profit contemporary art gallery. It has been pretty successful, marketing itself online and getting crowds by hosting popular local [...]
Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Slate of Spring 2010 Programs (Curated By Me)!
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on December 17th, 2009
Tweet The brochure for the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Spring 2010 Adult Public Programs is coming out! This spring I’ll be co-teaching a film survey course with Dr. Rebecca Sheehan (PhD from Penn, now at Haverford). I’ll also continue to run the Film@Perelman series, and I’ve selected some interesting offerings for the season!
Atom Egoyan: “Artists Don’t Always Do What Their Communities Want Them to Do”
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on October 30th, 2009
Tweet Filmmaker Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter, Adoration) has, over the course of three decades of movie-making, probed such disparate characters as strippers and comedians in provocative and artful ways. Egoyan further demonstrated his artistic curiosity at The Philadelphia Museum of Art on Sunday during a public conversation with curator Michael Taylor commemorating the recently [...]
Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Short Film Program
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on September 12th, 2009
Tweet Here’s the schedule for the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s short film program Film@Perelman. I’m excited to introduce and hold Q&A’s at screening of these films, which I’ve selected, during the fall! For the HTML list of programs on the museum’s website, click here. I’ve also given talks at the museum, including one introducing a [...]
Kalup Linzy, Ryan Trecartin Important to Saltz
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on April 22nd, 2009
Tweet Circulating the blogosphere is a list art-critic Jerry Saltz composed (on Facebook) of notable artists emerging after 1999 (last ten years). Lists are always problematic, and many of these I don’t know because I haven’t been living in New York, but I was happy to see Kalup Linzy and Ryan Trecartin, two video artists [...]
“Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism”
Posted by Aymar Jean Christian on May 22nd, 2008
Tweet Today, a reading of a classic essay by art history titan Rosalind Krauss: “Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism.” Full of sharp insights still relevant to video art today, I found it especially relevant — though ultimately insufficient – for understanding the phenomenon of YouTube and mumblecore (a paper I’m working on). The central idea is simple: [...]
