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Mel Chin

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Mel Chin, Jeffery Gibson, and Cameron Rowland Among Winners of the 2019 MacArthur “Genius” Award

by Hakim Bishara September 25, 2019September 25, 2019

This year, a number of artists will receive the prestigious award. The special honor comes with a no-strings-attached grant of $625,000.

Posted inArt

An Ohio Sculpture Festival that Is Curiously Light on Sculpture

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 25, 2018

Heavy on interactive works, audience intervention, and social practice art, Toledo’s annual sculpture festival raises the question of why we organize festivals around the theme of common discipline.

Posted inArt

Mel Chin and Art that Is Proof of Life

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney July 26, 2018

Mel Chin’s work, while visually fascinating and intellectually invigorating, when it moves beyond representation becomes significant, material, socio-political action.

Posted inArt

Mel Chin Submerges Times Square in a Post-Apocalyptic Future

Avatar photo by Deena ElGenaidi July 9, 2018

This Wednesday, Mel Chin takes over Times Square as part of his multi-location, interactive art exhibit that includes an animatronic sculpture and a mixed-reality experience.

Posted inArt

Mel Chin’s Tongue-in-Cheek Encyclopedia of the World

by Ryan Wong May 31, 2018June 1, 2018

He stares down the evils that have driven history, intervenes in public spaces, and collaborates with science — all in service to strengthening community

Posted inArt

How Can Ecological Artists Move Beyond Aesthetic Gestures?

by Ben Valentine August 28, 2017July 25, 2022

If art is to be relevant to the environment, it needs to move beyond an art context to engage with the land itself.

Posted inArt

Corcoran Art School Lays Off Over Half Its Faculty, Sowing Discontent and Distrust

by Elena Goukassian June 16, 2016June 20, 2016

The Corcoran School of the Arts & Design’s class of 2016 had its graduation ceremony on May 14. The following week, more than half of the art school’s full-time faculty were told their contracts would not be renewed.

Posted inArt

Mel Chin Crowdfunds a Film About Climate Change, Featuring an Inuit Hunter and Poodles

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 17, 2016May 17, 2016

Artist Mel Chin’s plan was to film an Inuit hunter racing through the streets of Paris on a sled pulled by seven fluffy white poodles, timing this vision of the Arctic in the French capital with the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP 21) in December of last year.

Posted inArt

Confronting Museumgoers with Gun Violence in the US

by Sarah Rose Sharp May 10, 2016January 17, 2017

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — To say that gun violence is an affliction of American society is a radical understatement, whether you go by the statistics or the frequency of mass shooting incidents.

Posted inArt

Artist Mel Chin Proposes a Solar Currency for the Sahara

by Matthew Irwin October 26, 2015October 31, 2015

ALBUQUERQUE — Mel Chin’s “The Potential Project,” represented by an installation at 516 Arts, embodies the teetering ambiguities of “first world” philanthropy.

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With Custom-Designed Galleries and Cinematic Facades, Columbus Museum of Art Opens New Wing

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 22, 2015November 3, 2015

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Expanding a museum is a lengthy and costly process, one which requires a great deal of buy-in from the staff, patrons, board, and surrounding community

Posted inOpinion

A Response to the Call to Boycott Israel

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian September 11, 2015February 8, 2016

Last month, the following letter was sent to artist Mel Chin by New York–based curator Manon Slome.

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