Articles

Swoon’s Konbit Shelter: Every Disaster Holds the Promise of Creation

  • by T. Pawlowski & S. Walko on April 29, 2010

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by T. Pawlowski & S. Walko on April 29, 2010

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Two Konbit Shelter project team members, Thaddeus Pawlowski and Sarah Walko, reflect on the nature of disasters and what they can teach us about how we become who we are. As they explain, “They reveal deep patterns in our nature. Artists are vital to the rebuilding process because they can help us recognize these patterns and the lessons embedded within them. By fostering a common vision and purpose, they can glue a city back together even more than housing and infrastructure, as they provide a psychic infrastructure.”

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News

An Extensive Roundup of Haitian Art in Jeopardy, London ICA’s Budget Crisis

  • by Hrag Vartanian on January 25, 2010

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by Hrag Vartanian on January 25, 2010

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… Florida’s Dail Museum needs money to complete its new building … a woman fell into a Rose Period Picasso last Friday at the Met and ignited some of the funniest blog comments I’ve ever read on a New York Times blog (don’t worry, both the woman & the Picasso will be fine) … Toronto’s Art Gallery of Ontario receives its biggest contemporary art donation ever … and a list of all the biennials you can look forward to in 2010.

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Interviews

Joy Garnett’s Gesture for Haiti

  • by Hrag Vartanian on January 15, 2010

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by Hrag Vartanian on January 15, 2010

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Today, I was browsing Facebook and I discovered a post by Joy Garnett, who was offering one of her paintings to the first collector to pledge $10,000 to a fund for Haiti. She’s an artist known for painting images of disasters and I wanted to talk to her about her latest bout of altruism.

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