Matt Bollinger talks about his work

Artist, educator and blogger Sharon L. Butler moderates a conversation with alumni Renee Cox (MFA 1992 Photography), Katherine Bernhardt (MFA 2000 Fine Arts), Suzanne McClelland (MFA 1989 Fine Arts), Rachel Papo (MFA 2005 Photography, Video and Related Media) and Amy Stein (MFA 2006 Photography, Video and Related Media), and faculty member Danica Phelps. The artists discuss their experiences negotiating the demands of the commercial art world with those of motherhood. The event took place on Tuesday, October 16, 2012 at the SVA Theatre.

Interview Series by Tom Powel Imaging

This is the first installment of the interview series, 8 Americans. Here, Keith Mayerson introduces himself and discusses a variety of topics, focusing specifically on his role as organizer of the show in Brussels, the philosophies and concepts that motivated the exhibition, as well as, a brief overview of the other artists involved.

The aim of this series is to provide a valuable resource on art history and critical theory, as well as, an in-depth understanding of several artists with a variety of aesthetics and personal experiences.

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
February 24 - June 17, 2012

This is the first exhibition dedicated to the symbolist landscape in Europe. Some 70 poetical and evocative paintings of nature from the period 1880–1910 will offer a new perspective on this intriguing movement.

"...Whistlings of death and circles of muffled music make this adored body rise, swell and tremble like a ghost; scarlet and black wounds open in the magnificent flesh. The actual colors of life darken, dance, and emerge around the Vision as it takes shape. And shudders arise and rumble, and the frenetic taste of these effects weighted down with the mortal whistling and raucous music that the world, far behind us, hurls at our mother of beauty, -----she backs off, she stands up. Oh! Our bones are clad with a new loving body...."

Arthur Rimbaud - Beauteous Being - Illuminations - translation by John Ashbery