Aaron Hughes speaker thursday

Hello faculty,

Just a reminder, the Aaron Hughes lecture is tomorrow (thursday) at 12:15 in Alfond Auditorium in the MFA.

Please encourage your students to attend. Aaron is a very smart, powerful speaker and a young artist students may be able to relate to. I've talked to some of you who have students who are vets. Aaron requested that we reach out to any students vets as he would like to work with them.

It's free and open to the public, but students do need to grab a free ticket at the Fenway entrance on their way in.

Thank you so much,

Steve

Text and Image Arts welcomes:

Aaron Hughes

Aaron Hughes is an artist, Iraq War veteran, and lead organizer with Iraq Veterans Against The War.

Aaron is available to meet with students and do a workshop during his visit. He asked us to specifically welcome any students who may be veterans or family of veterans. If you are interested, please email steve.lambert@smfa.edu

Aaron Hughes served in the Illinois Army National Guard from 2000 to 2006 and was deployed for fifteen months to "Operation Iraqi Freedom" in 2003/2004 with the 1244th Transportation Company from North Riverside, IL. On his return he began to use art as a tool to confront issues of dehumanization, militarism, and occupation. In 2009 he received an MFA in Art Theory and Practice from Northwestern University. Today Aaron is the curator and chair of the Art Committee at the National Veterans Art Museum and Organizing Team Leader for Iraq Veterans Against the War, where he has worked on such projects as Warrior Writers, Combat Paper, Drawing For Peace, Operation First Casualty, Winter Soldier, the Demilitarized University, and Operation Recovery.

Thursday, December 1, 2011
12:15 pm - 2:00 pm
Alfond Auditorium, G36

tickets are limited and available at the Fenway entrance the day of the event

P/T job op.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Manuela Arundel <marundel@collegebounddorchester.org>
Date: Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 3:29 PM
Subject: Internship Opportunity
To: bonnie.donohue@smfa.edu

Dear Professor Donohue:

I am hoping you can help me find a student-photographer who might be interested in an internship/work-study opportunity with our non-profit. This is great opportunity for a student who is looking to build his/her portfolio by working with us. We are looking for someone who will provide services to support our marketing efforts and events. The photographer will take pictures of all of College Bound’s programs to be used in the organization’s annual report, website and collateral and will also be available to take day of photos for fundraising and marketing events throughout the year. The photographer will be employed as a contractor and work under the direct supervision of the Director of Development. College Bound Dorchester will provide photo credit on all collateral. This is a great opportunity to showcase work and contribute to College Bound’s mission—to equip Dorchester student with the attitude, skills and experience to graduate from college (www.collegebounddorchester.org). Rate of pay will be $25/hour, with an estimated 20-30 hours available throughout the year. Additional hours may be available.

I am most grateful for any help or suggestions you can provide.

Best,

Manuela

Manuela Arundel
Development Associate
College Bound Dorchester
18 Samoset Street
Dorchester, MA 02124
(617) 506-5985

Established in 1965 as Federated Dorchester Neighborhood Houses, Inc.

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Conflated two books today

I conflated two books today:
Douglas Crimp, "On The Museum's Ruins" and Brian O'Doherty's, "Inside the White Cube: The Ideology of the the Gallery Space". Eduardo, Brian's book is the one I was thinking about for you. Both are excellent.

Book Description "Inside the White Cube.."

ISBN-10: 0520220404 | ISBN-13: 978-0520220409 | Publication Date: January 14, 2000 | Edition: Expanded

When these essays first appeared in Artforum in 1976, their impact was immediate. They were discussed, annotated, cited, collected, and translated--the three issues of Artforum in which they appeared have become nearly impossible to obtain. Having Brian O'Doherty's provocative essays available again is a signal event for the art world. This edition also includes "The Gallery as Gesture," a critically important piece published ten years after the others.
O'Doherty was the first to explicitly confront a particular crisis in postwar art as he sought to examine the assumptions on which the modern commercial and museum gallery was based. Concerned with the complex and sophisticated relationship between economics, social context, and aesthetics as represented in the contested space of the art gallery, he raises the question of how artists must construe their work in relation to the gallery space and system.
These essays are essential reading for anyone interested in the history and issues of postwar art in Europe and the United States. Teeming with ideas, relentless in their pursuit of contradiction and paradox, they exhibit both the understanding of the artist (Patrick Ireland) and the precision of the scholar.

November 28

Rachel Perry Welty

Madame Li - L'Adolescente

Urbanica blog

Philip Toledano

L'amour Fou - Rosalind Krauss

The Surreal House

Abner Nolan - "away article"

Glen Ligon

Zoe Leonard - "The biography of Faye Richards"

Mickalene Thomas

Nikki S. Lee - AKA Nikki S. Lee video

American Suburb X - Artist Interview Website

Doug Rickard - Creator of American Suburb X

Jeff Bark

Brian Ulrich - see "Copia"

Martin Parr

Shane Lavalette

Gerhard Richter

Seto Masato- Picnics

Anna Fox -newspaper people

Kate MccGwire

Christo and Jeanne Claude

Anthony Gromley

Alejandra Laviada

YowaYowaCamera - levitation blog!

Laurie Simmons "tourism"

Daguerreotype Panorama

Douglas Crimp - The White Cube

Elliot Erwitt

Andrea Fraser - Sex Tape

Chris Burden - look for museum in relation to capacity

Peeing in DuChamp's urinal

Hans Haacke

Tinguely's drawing machine

Lorna Simpson

Carrie Mae Weems - Aint Jokin' (1987)

Marina Warner - From the Beast to the Blonde

Bruno Bettleheim - The uses of enchantement

Zine/Blog/Great photographs

here's a really great zine or something! Unfortunately i believe all the text is in spanish. I'm not positive where the leaders are from or who the leaders are. I am mostly impressed with the work within their issues. The link will open up to their "dream issue" yet i suggest you check out their other work! Here's the FotoClub & for those who like Tumblr, you can find their blog here!

Happy thanksgiving!

Madeline