Tarnished by Protests
April 30th, 2011

Walid Raad is leading over 100 artists, curators and others in a boycott of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi amidst reports that laborers are being exploited in constructing the museum.

Walid Raad is leading over 100 artists, curators and others in a boycott of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi amidst reports that laborers are being exploited in constructing the museum.

“The ‘new’ windows are beautiful, celebratory — very experiential and atmospheric — all qualities that visitors will appreciate when they see the new presentation.”
An interactive evening directed by Death by Design. A night of escape at the International Museum of Surgical Science! This once-in-a-lifetime event will transport guests to the forgotten mansion of the infamous Dr. Moreau.
Before graduating, I was lamenting loosing my access to the Art Institute's Museum. But good news came in the mail yesterday

The complex and poetic role of the studio in an artist’s life and work is explored in “Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out,” which opened February 6 at the Museum of Contemporary Art

Dan Flavin’s objects demand first and foremost that the viewer be physically present; the viewer’s body, subjected to tens of thousands of lumens, in turn becomes the subject of the artwork. The architecture of the MCA, especially the rounded barrel vaulting, turns everything into ritualized spaces of worship and devotion.