Further Reading: By and About Artists

Hello All,
Here are some readings by and about artists.
Note the video above, #6, Kukuli Velarde.
Watching things like this can help sharpen your speaking skills for final presentations!
Warm regards,
Terri

Week 2 - By and About Artists:
1. Jack Thompson: The Well of Myth, Glen R. Brown, galley draft for Ceramics Art & Perception, 2008.
2. Julie Mehretu, Sheets, NYT, 2007.
3. Sketchbooks, Jed Perl, The New Republic, 2010
4. Poetic Theaters, Romantic Fevers, Holland Cotter, New York Times, 2007.
5. The Philosophy of Art; Interview with Arthur C. Danto, Natasha Degen, The Nation, 2005.
6. Studioscopic Episode 7: Kukuli Velarde
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6777574281882789675
Click here for more info about Kukuli.

Optional additional readings / video on the topic:
I Dream the Clothing Electric: Nick Cave, Finkel, NYT, 2009.
Heesung Lee - Interview, Dana Sunshine, TheArtBiz.com.
Gathered, Not Made: ABrief History of Appropriative Writing, Raphael Rubenstein, The American Poetry Review, 1999
Merce Cunnigham: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/08/01/arts/dance/20090803-merce-graphic.html
Elizabeth Murray, 66, Artist of Vivid Forms, Dies, Roberta Smith, New York Times, 2007.



For those of you interested in Richard Serra and hot lead!

- Art and Extravaganza:
1. Ray Johnson: ACollage in Which Life=Death=Art, Michael Kimmelman, New York Times, 2002.
(Participate in Mail Art project w/ collector John Held: http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=4489)

2. Richard Serra: Rigging, (1980), Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art (T.D.C.), Ed., Stiles & Selz, 1996.

3. Kiki Smith, Queen of Arts, Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 2006

4. Jannis Kounellis: Structure and Sensibility, Interview with Willoughby Sharp (1972), Ed., Stiles & Selz, T.D.C., 1996.

5. Theory Talk with Aaron Levy, Slought Boss, Fallon & Rosof, theartblog, 2010
This article generated an interesting discussion amongst recent MCAD grads and friends.
The thread can be found HERE.

Optional additional readings / video on the topic:



Ron Nagle: http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=24284

Merce Cunningham: http://www.kqed.org/arts/programs/spark/profile.jsp?essid=4655

Eva Hesse, review, Mark Stevens , New York magazine, 2006.

Buona Serra, Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine, 2007.