What drives cultural practitioners to experiment, discover, and create?
"My thinking as a curator has been informed by 'other lives' that I've been fortunate to live and I continue to think about exhibitions from the perspective of what's new that can be brought to the table."
In the third and final segment of our three-part conversation with Center Visiting Artist Ain Gordon, he gives us a glimpse of how he has entered into conversations at the Center and proposed alternative possibilities for our approach to our work.
The final article in the American Impresario series features Claire Chase of the International Contemporary Ensemble, which has been described by the New York Times as "one of the most adventurous and accomplished groups in new music."
Vox Populi Executive Director Andrew Suggs discusses discoveries made through his Center-funded research into the new generation of so-called "alternative" art spaces.
Two highly respected curators, Helen Molesworth and Paul Schimmel, describe how they see the relationship between curating and historiography.
In the first segment of a three-part conversation between Center Visiting Artist Ain Gordon and Center Executive Director Paula Marincola, they discuss Gordon's role as a conduit between the Center and its grantees.
Tacita Dean speaks about time's myriad forms, from the geological and the celestial to the biological or the structural.
Tacita Dean shares her thoughts about the making of her film JG in advance of its international debut at Arcadia University Art Gallery.
"Curators were people who I thought had a secondary role in the art ecosystem; it took me a while to see how that adjacency and remove could be liberating, and to learn the real pleasures of thinking with and through others."
"The bracket of the museum or gallery often shifts the lens of a project away from its being toward a traditional mode of representation. It is a shift that I find often in the way of the artists' intent."