It’s massive: 130 artists, over 50 national pavilions and more than 40 collateral events across the city. It’s also largely irrelevant to the fate of Venice in a world of irresistible climate change. Venice is in peril, its future grim; sea levels are rising, flood barriers are inadequate, giant cruise ships and billionaire super yachts […] . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Venice Biennale: Artists Fiddled While Venice Drowned
The Exhibiton — Peter Kennard: A Very Unofficial War Artist, Imperial War Museum, London The Film — Zygosis: John Heartfield and the Political Image by Gavin Hodge & Tim Morrison (1991) The images in this archival exhibition, Peter Kennard: A Very Unofficial War Artist, represent a radical perspective on the history of the last 70 . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Peter Kennard: A very unofficial war artist The following text was written to accompany the show “Scene Otherwise: recent work by Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge,” which ran from April 17 to May 12 at the Khyber Centre for the Arts, curated by the Anna Leonowens Gallery as part of the Halifax Mayworks Festival. We live in an age of the foreclosure . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Condé and Beveridge depict two visions of our future A review of: Conflict – Time – Photography @ Tate Modern, London Conscience and Conflict: British Artists and the Spanish Civil War @ Pallant Gallery, Chichester Brute @ arthouse1, London We have just returned from Tate Modern and the exhibition Conflict-Time-Photography. On the cover of the exhibition catalogue is the photo of a statue. It’s . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Art and photography tackle the conscience and chronology of war “Imagine a new relationship to every aspect of everything.” “Capitalism has fallen; Art must be redefined.” “You get to pick your gender when you come of age, but feel free to change your mind.” “Living together is still hard; Art makes it better.” These missives from the Inner City Artists’ Commune arrive to us from . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Activist pasts, austere presents, queered futures: An interview with Emily Davidson  Comments are closed   austerity, Conversations, Design, Education, features, gentrification, Halifax, labour., poster art, Visual art Dear Mr. Bush, I was heartened to learn of your recent exhibition of paintings at your own Presidential Library in Dallas. Some may have considered this a crude display of the vanity of power, but I happen to think such crudeness has its own aesthetic merit and honesty. It is crucial that world leaders such . . . → Read More: Art Threat: An open letter to George W. Bush, the artist After seven years of putting political art on your computer screen, I’m now hoping to put some art on your walls. We started Art Threat in 2007 because we felt that artists creating socially-engaged work weren’t getting the attention they deserved. After 1200+ posts over the years (and many more to come), I’d like to . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Hugs With Arms will put affordable art on your walls Comments are closed art prints, crowdfunding, drawing, features, illustration, painting, Photography, Visual art Things may soon be looking grim for many students and faculty at the University of Saskatchewan. The Saskatoon-based institution is looking to slash up to $25 million from its operating budget. In a restructuring process the administration has branded TransformUS, the UofS is currently determining “university priorities”, after which they plan to “eliminate or reduce . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Transform This: iconic Johnny Cash photo used to protest Saskatchewan university cuts As income tax filing deadlines approach across North America, many Mexican artists will be counting canvases instead of pay stubs. In Mexico, a country that has lost over $870 billion to tax evasion and money laundering, hundreds of artists aren’t required to pay a dime in tax. Instead, they pay the government with artwork. For . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Should artists be able to pay taxes with artwork? I first stumbled upon George Littlechild’s art at the Comox Valley Art Gallery in my hometown of Courtenay, British Columbia. After reeling from the emotional turmoil and historical reopening, rapprochement and reordering rendered in his bold and colourful brush strokes and integration of collage through archives, I was delighted further to learn that Littlechild resided . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Painting, Resisting, Giggling: An Interview with George Littlechild Comments are closed aboriginal, Canada, Conversations, features, First Nations, George Littlechild, history, Idle No More, painting, Residential Schools, Visual art This week marks the third anniversary of the crisis in Syria, and a new campaign involving Banksy asks that we stand in solidarity with Syrians. #WithSyria asks the public to place pressure on political leaders to “do everything they can to make this the last anniversary marked by bloodshed.” The campaign takes graphic inspiration from . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Banksy video asks that we stand #WithSyria on third anniversary of conflict An American weapons manufacturer is the subject of outrage in Italy — but this international offensive lies strictly within the cultural realm. ArmaLite, an Illinois-based small arms engineering firm, has bestowed indignity upon Michelangelo’s David by using the classical sculpture as a prop in a rifle advertisement. The tacky advert has incensed . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Michelangelo’s David takes up arms in American gun ad Less than 13 percent of Wikipedia contributors are female, an uncomfortable imbalance that skews the content that is found on the tremendously popular resource. Last week nearly 600 volunteers around the planet stormed Wikipedia in a marathon effort to put a dent in this disparity by adding 100 new pages about women artists, and . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Feminist Art editing marathon creates 100 new Wikipedia entries Those of us, of a certain age, or so the story goes, can remember exactly where we were and what we were doing on 23rd of November, 1963, when we first heard news of the death of President John F Kennedy. Some will have been in the concert hall in Boston when the performance was . . . → Read More: Art Threat: JFK After 50 Years: Berlin to Dallas, Cold War to Camelot North Carolina based artist Endia Deal explores the relationships of minority women within the corporate space. Her most recent project, “Can I touch it?”, is a photo series depicting white women in their 40s or older with traditionally black hairstyles. The final results show women with cornrows, flat twists, fingerwaves and somewhat apprehensive faces. . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Can I Touch It? Artist George Pfau believes zombies are an irresistible cultural force. But while most of us limit our interest to binging on Walking Dead episodes, or perhaps taking part in a Zombie Walk, for Pfau the study of zombies makes up a huge part of his art practice. His most recent project is the Zombie . . . → Read More: Art Threat: The Zombie Index explores the space between individuals and the collective As a man with no tattoos, Noel Franus is an unlikely candidate as the founder of P.INK: an organization that connects breast cancer survivors with tattoo ideas and artists. But as anyone with a family member who is also a breast cancer survivor can attest, the urge to do something to help can be . . . → Read More: Art Threat: P.INK takes heathcare to an unexpected place: the tattoo parlour Comments are closed Art, Blog, breast cancer, cancer, Conversations, Health, p.ink, reconstruction, surgery, tattoo, Visual art, women Indebted States of America by Maine artist Eric Leppanen is created with 169 of his own credit cards, collected over the past 23 years, adorned with the 50 U.S. state quarters and framed in gold leaf. “It speaks to the marketing of ‘Big Banks’ to indebt Americans with bait and switch tactics and easy/free . . . → Read More: Art Threat: 169 credit cards + $12.50 in change = Indebted States of America The latest book by comic artist Joe Sacco isn’t really a book at all. The Great War is a single 24-foot-long panoramic image that illustrates the first day of the battle of the Somme on July 1, 1916. And while the style is certainly Sacco, The Great War differs from his previous projects, such as . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Joe Sacco depicts one dreadful day of The Great War New Yorkers have spent the past two weeks tripping over themselves as they attempt to locate new Banksy works as they pop up each morning. The British artist is currently halfway through a month-long residency “on the streets of New York,” and his daily creations, which include video and other creative interventions, have been generating . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Banksy in NYC: highlights from the first two weeks The woman in a red dress being blasted by pepper spray in Gezi Park, Istanbul, is not an anomaly. Women are on the front lines of Turkey’s protest movement and were also well represented in the series of upheavals that was dubbed the Arab Spring. But to gain a full appreciation women’s contributions, it’s probably . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Fearless photography explores the Egyption women of the revolution Comments are closed Activism, Arab Spring, features, Feminism, Journalism, Middle East, Photography, protest, Visual art, Word At the recent Montreal Anarchist Bookfair, where another (better) world of incredibly inspiring, provocative and boundary-pushing art and media is on display each year, I stumbled upon Eloisa Aquino and her wares – a series of zines on awesome butch dykes, appropriately called The Life and Times of Butch Dykes. The teeny books are what . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Butch Dykes: A Herstory told in zines Comments are closed Anarchism, Blog, Chavela Vargas, Conversations, Eloisa Aquino, features, herstory, history, JD Samson, lesbian, publishing, queer, Visual art, Word, zines It’s no secret that money rules our lives. I think what we’re now seeing is really the final and most ruthless stage of the integration of art and creativity into the capitalist market or, in other words, the final stages of art’s subordination to money. But I think that almost all other ways of justifying . . . → Read More: Art Threat: The Art & Money Project Comments are closed art market, Consumerism, Conversations, Economics, features, finance, Installations, Money, Visual art Editorial cartoonist Dan Murphy has created a parody of a Canadian bank note featuring maligned senator Mike Duffy — he of the fraudulent $90,000 in expense claims. The humourless Bank of Canada, however, demanded the cartoon be removed in an email sent from their “anti-counterfeiting compliance program.” The Bank argues that the parody violated their . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Bank of Canada cries counterfeit over Duffy Buck cartoon Comments are closed Blog, Canada, copyright, Currency, illustration, political cartoons, satire, Visual art Chinese dissident and artist Ai Weiwei will create a new edition of his Forever Bicycles sculpture at this year’s Nuit Blanche festival in Toronto. The eighth annual event will take place between sunset and sunrise on October 5, 2013 and feature more than 110 contemporary art projects scattered across the city. The installation by Weiwei, . . . → Read More: Art Threat: Ai Weiwei brings 1200 bicycles to Nuit Blanche Toronto | ||
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