Production Site, Deaccessioning & Cream Puffs

Tacita Dean • Section Cinema (Homage to Marcel Broodthaers) • 2002 • courtesy of Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris, and Frith Street Gallery, London

Some new reviews are up on ArtSlant:
Production Site: the Artist's Studio Inside-Out at the MCA, Chicago
February 6 - May 30, 2010
> REVIEW
> MUSEUM SITE

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Museum Collections and "Deaccessioning" at the DePaul University Art Museum
January 14 - March 19, 2010
> REVIEW
> MUSEUM SITE

Beard Papa’s!
> fresh’n natural cream puffs

Images on flickr
> Photoset


Rodney Graham • Dead Flowers in my Studio • 2009 • courtesy Donald Young Gallery, Chicago

In the Year 2020

The session of the College Art Association conference everyone seems to be talking about the most is the one on painting that has about 90 artists on it. I'm going to it, but I am also particularly interested in this one:

Society of Contemporary Art Historians
Contemporary Art History in 2020

Saturday, February 13, 12:30 PM–2:00 PM
Regency B, Gold Level, West Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago

Chairs: Matthew Jesse Jackson, University of Chicago; Andrew Perchuk, Getty Research Institute
Hannah Feldman, Northwestern University
Amelia Jones, McGill University
Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Harvard University
Robert Storr, Yale University


Ann Craven studio, Galerie LHK, France, January, 2009 > LINK

Studio Art Open Session
Painting

Saturday, February 13, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Grand A, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago

Chair: Michelle Ann Grabner, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Ann Craven, Yale University
Anoka Faruqee, California Institute of the Arts
Peter Halley, Yale University
Rebecca Morris, Pasadena City College
Thomas Lawson, California Institute of the Arts
Judy Ledgerwood, Northwestern University
Sabina Ott, Columbia College Chicago
Scott Reeder, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Molly Zuckerman Hartung, independent artist, Chicago
Susanna Coffey, independent artist, New York
Carrie Moyer, Rhode Island School of Design
Jon Pestoni, independent artist


I couldn't not post this • Ann Craven: Shadow Moon

Situational Frustration

If you aren't in Chicago for the CAA conference then this won't make much sense to you. I wish I were going to this, it looks awesome. Except I am signed up for a workshop on grant writing. It seems like all the CAA sessions I want to go to are all at once. I am particularly interested in "The Situationist inverse of Relational Aesthetics." Although I'm not sure we've really established what Relational Aesthetics is outside of saying, "Rirkrit Tiravanija and Liam Gillick and those guys."

Art as Event
Friday, February 12, 9:30 AM–12:00 PM
Columbus KL, Gold Level, East Tower, Hyatt Regency Chicago
Chair: Nadja Rottner, University of Michigan, Dearborn

Mass Action, Aleksei Gan, and the Social Aesthetics of Russian Constructivism
Kristin Romberg, Columbia University

Antiart, Nonevent: The Situationist Inverse of Relational Aesthetics
Jennifer Stob, Yale University

Rolywholyover to theanyspacewhatever: John Cage's Compositions for Museums, or Relational in Retrospect
Sandra Skurvida, Bard College, Fashion Institute of Technology, and School of Visual Arts

Inducing Spirits: Oscar Masotta’s Apperceptive Participant
Daniel R. Quiles, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Situational Aesthetics and the Art of Participation
Kirsi Peltomaki, Oregon State University

Discussant:Irene Small, University of Ilinois, Urbana-Champaign

Just So You Know

Sure, we all know the College Art Association Conference is being held this week in Chicago. But where exactly in Chicago? The most specific answer I could find on the conference website is on the PDF of the press release which says it’s at the Hyatt Regency, but lists no address. So I Googled it only to find two Hyatt Regencies in Chicago. One on Wacker and one at McCormick place. Incidentally McCormick place is hosting the Chicago Auto Show this weekend. I won’t hold you in suspense any longer:

The College Art Association Conference
Hyatt Regency
151 E Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL
Feb 10 – 13, 2010

I don't know, maybe I'm an idiot. Even under "Conference Hotels" while it lists the Hyatt Regency, it doesn't specify that that is thee hotel. So I just thought I'd post the address for anyone planning on attending that doesn't know where it is. Now you know. Never mind. On the endless lists of sessions it says "Hyatt Regency," so maybe you put two and two together, cross-referencing the "conference hotels" page. Whatever. As for where "Columbus GHIJ, Gold Level, East Tower" is, you're on your own. I think we're all fucked, because if it's one thing I know about intellectuals and artists, it's that practical things like way-finding are not a strong suit.

> CONFERENCE SITE