Books
How Landscape Became Doctrine in American Art
In his new book, Tyler Green argues that landscape was Emerson’s method of glorifying territories shaped and bordered by White men.
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Announcement
Join a Conversation With Nancy Rubins and Tyler Green
This free online event celebrating Rubins, the recipient of the Artists’ Legacy Foundation’s 2021 Artist Award, will take place on Friday, October 22.
Podcast
Carleton Watkins and Photography’s Romance with the American West
How do you tell the story of an artist whose archive was destroyed? Tyler Green’s new book focuses on a major figure in the early history of photography.
Opinion
Indianapolis Museum of Art in Jeopardy?
In the last few years the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) has developed a deserved national and international reputation. The IMA’s 100 acre Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park, which opened in 2010, is one of the largest contemporary sculpture parks in the world, and one of the only such parks
Announcement
ArtPrize Artist Registration Now Open, Jurors Revealed
Artist registration is open now for the fourth annual ArtPrize. Part art competition, part social experiment, the event overtakes downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, bringing in hundreds of thousands of visitors from across the country. Designed to be a simple yet transformative experience for both art
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Damien Hirst's global spot challenge, TJ Clark on Leonardo, Cairo's art scene, Green & Knight on PST, de Kooning conversation, Queer theory, vandalism as art criticism, imagining a drunk gay Jenny Holzer twitterfeed and an Abby Road spoof.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week's edition focuses on the de Kooning retrospective at MoMA, some final essays on the 9/11 Museum, an endangered mural in Manhattan, the timeline design of Facebook and Instagram as art.
News
Spiral Jetty Has Lease Problems, Just Like Your Sublet
Could the Dia Foundation lose its lease to the most iconic work of land art ever? The Utah Department of Natural Resources recently informed Dia that it had failed to renew its lease on the land that holds Robert Smithson's “Spiral Jetty” (1970) in Rozel Point, Utah.
News
China Demands Return of San Diego Contemporary Museum's Ai Weiwei
Tyler Green has this incredible story — China is demanding the return of two marble chair sculptures by Ai Weiwei recently bought by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego due to a claimed export license problem. Is China trying to censor Ai's work abroad?
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News
Smithsonian Regents Board Report Waffles on Controversy; Clough Won't Go [UPDATED]
The Smithsonian Board of Regents met on January 31st with Smithsonian Secretary G. Wayne Clough to discuss the fallout from the recent censorship scandal at the National Portrait Gallery. In its released report, the Board fails to make a strong statement against the censorship but suggests several w
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News
As Protests Take Place in LA, a Smithsonian Secretary Clough Update [UPDATED]
Today is the day that Smithsonian Secretary Wayne Clough is going to face the press in Los Angeles to answer questions related to the Wojnarowicz censorship case. I'm sure there will be lots of news from the event, particularly since LA Raw will be protesting [http://hyperallergic.com/17125/la-raw-p
Opinion
Everything Is an Art Fair
We will be chiming in about the VIP art fair tomorrow, but until then I couldn't resist sharing this snark from art blogger Tyler Green. A website is somehow an "art fair?" Uh, OK. I'm pleased to announce that MAN is now the Modern Art Notes Art Fair.less than a minute ago [http://twitter.com/Tyler