Nina Katchadourianâs Eccentric Existentialism
In her first show at Pace, an artist driven by curiosity and a penchant for the absurd tries to understand the world. The results are touching and sometimes hilarious.
Detail from Nina Katchadourian’s “The Genealogy of the Supermarket” (2005). Framed like thrift-store photographs, the work connects the Gerber Baby to its family tree from product design and commerce, in new home groupings.Credit.Nina Katchadourian and Pace Gallery
By Aruna DâSouza
May 27, 2021
Nina Katchadourian is a sculptor, a printmaker, a photographer, a performance artist, a video artist, a sound artist â but more than any of those things she is an artist with a voracious curiosity and a marathonerâs stamina when it comes to running with an idea. In her first show at Pace Gallery, âCumulus,â she offers up seven projects that are witty, sometimes even guffaw-inducing. But donât let that fool you: Underneath the playfulness
Moving on to our next search, that committee will be subject to the Open Meeting Law, Hugh Daley said. There will be minutes. There will be portions that will have to go into executive session, like when we consider resumes. Preliminary screening committees, like the search committee, are permitted to go into executive session if the chair declares that an open meeting will have a detrimental effect in obtaining qualified applicants, according to the Open Meeting Law. The entire process of the Interim Police Chief Advisory Committee was exempt from the OML because it was serving as an advisory committee to an authority (in this case, the town manager) who could have made the decision at his or her sole discretion.
I feel the need to call particular attention to what we re seeing, which is the first majority person of color committee in our town where, if I m counting right, five out of six of those people of color will not be continuing the work, Nicoll said. I hope this forces our town to reckon with its past, its present, what we re doing. I know it s calling me to reckon with my work in this committee, and I hope to God it s calling leadership in this town to reckon with what has happened and where we need to go. I don t want to hear excuses from people about why this is happening. I think it is clear, and we ve got to stop hiding from it.
Finding a Penfriend in Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts
An open letter to n+1’s new anthology, which explores themes of racial aggression and privilege as well as celebrating solidarity
Dear
Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts,
First, a confession: I am not Asian American. (I was born in London, am Chinese and monoracial, and have lived in both New York and Hong Kong, where I’m currently writing this letter.) Asian American identity politics is, generally, a no-go area for me: it is a delicate space; I do not want to intrude. I think of one particular literary magazine whose submission page includes the lines: ‘Do not send ideas about people and events in Asia unless they convey something about the Asian diaspora that resonates with the Asian American experience.’ Interesting. I wonder who decided that division – not unification – defined experiences of colonialism, oppression, pain and resilience? (Y
Ziemba, who has been serving as acting chief since the departure of Kyle Johnson in December, was vetted by a committee of concerned citizens created by the Select Board to advise the town manager, who has hiring authority under the town s charter. That committee s role was called into question on Monday when one of the residents appointed to serve announced on Facebook that she was resigning over concerns with the process that led to Ziemba s appointment. While making it clear that she had no objection to Ziemba s elevation to the position, Aruna D Souza charged that Blanchard overruled the advisory committee by not appointing its preferred candidate.