http://artsinsociety.com Just another CommonGroundPublishing weblog Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:25:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The unlikely creation of an international art movement By Doug Harvey at LAWeekly... In Australia in 1971, a 30-year-old white Sydney schoolteacher named Geoff Bardon took a posting in the Aboriginal-relocation community of Papunya in the outback west of Alice Springs, teaching art to the children of the patchwork indigenous community. When ... http://artsinsociety.com/2010/03/outback-renaissance/ From T. J. Clark at The Threepenny Review... How deep is Bruegel’s pessimism? I guess the question is inseparable from that of his relation to Christianity. (He was no fool: the question is insoluble.) And from the issue of comedy. How much was horror played for laughs? Does laughter take the ... http://artsinsociety.com/2010/03/on-bruegel/ Photography's surprising impact on the Surrealists From The Smart Set at Drexel University... Surrealism isn't surreal anymore. It doesn't shock or jolt. It isn't confusing or upsetting. If anything, the works of Surrealism have taken on a quaint charm. This would surely have annoyed its practitioners. The great theorist of Surrealism, André ... http://artsinsociety.com/2010/03/say-fromage/ Tino SehGal, Untitled Installation--The Guggenheim Museum, through March 10th From n+1 magazine: When we walk into the denuded Guggenheim, finally wiggling past Lloyd Wright’s low-ceilinged, dark and deliberately claustrophobia-inducing entrance foyer, it takes us a few seconds to adjust to all the open space spiraling upwards and outwards around us. There’s a ... http://artsinsociety.com/2010/03/a-progress-or-one-foot-in-front-of-the-other/ http://artsinsociety.com/2010/03/jrs-women-are-heroes-paris-2009-exhibition/ Recently published papers in The International Journal of the Arts in Society include: Chicano Art as Alternative Media: Its Influence on US Popular Culture (And Beyond) by Regina Marchi. Locus Solus by Sozita Goudouna. Pleasure Versus Pressure in the Piano Lesson: Music Education and Examinations in Malaysia by Jason Kong-Chiang Tye. The Postcolonial Sentimental: Imagining ... http://artsinsociety.com/2010/02/arts-journal-latest-papers/ The most recent issue, Volume 4, Number 5, of The International Journal of the Arts in Society includes: The Venetian Heritage of Dalmatia (Or the “Balkan” Heritage of Venice?) by Thomas E. Schweigert. Symphony Audience Development: Analysis of Organizational Culture in the Performing Arts by Erin E. Carey. The Influence of European Arts on Bagh-e-Golestan: The ... http://artsinsociety.com/2010/02/recently-published-in-the-arts-journal-2/ The latest issue of The International Journal of the Arts in Society includes: Second Life: Performing the Real in Digital Arts by Leman Giresunlu. The Japanese Garden, Humanism, and the Contemporary American Landscape by Min Lum Mossman. On the Threshold-looking In: Bakhtin’s Concept of Dialogue in Visual Art Education by Gabriele Esser-Hall. The New Triple A ... http://artsinsociety.com/2010/02/latest-arts-journal-papers/ Recently published papers in The International Journal of the Arts in Society include: The Violence of the Unsaid in Van Sant’s Elephant and Paranoid Park: The Active Role of the Viewer in Creating Narrative Meanings by Ana Paula Barroso. Japanese Fireworks (Hanabi): The Ephemeral Nature and Symbolism by Damien Liu-Brennan and Mio Bryce. Writing ... http://artsinsociety.com/2010/01/arts-journal-recently-published-3/ By Randy Kennedy from The New York Times... After a museumgoer’s trip and fall opened a rip in a century-old Picasso painting last week at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, officials there assured the public that — nightmarish as accidents are at a place entrusted with protecting priceless art — conservators ... http://artsinsociety.com/2010/01/despite-assurances-met-finds-artworks-aren%e2%80%99t-restored-overnight/