Installation view of After Carolee at Artpace San Antonio. Photo courtesy of Artpace San Antonio.
“By the year 2000, no young woman artist will meet the determined resistance and constant undermining that I endured as a student… . She will never feel like a provisional guest at the banquet of life.” So predicted the groundbreaking feminist artist and writer Carolee Schneemann (1939-2019) in an essay from the 1970s. Schneemann began her career in New York City in the early 1960s. In those days, male painters stole her brushes and books, claiming that, as men and
real artists, they needed her materials much more than she did. The realities and challenges of women’s lives became the driving force behind Schneemann’s pioneering artwork.
Colorado was in poor shape to handle 2020’s confluence of crises. This year’s heightened mental health needs have run headlong into a complex, ever-shifting constellation of decades-old challenges: the state’s higher-than-average prevalence of high-risk mental health conditions; a backlog of demand caused by a thicket of red tape among state agencies and private insurers; a behavioral health workforce shortage compounded by low rates of psychiatrists and psychologists who accept public or private insurance;
cultural stigma; and slow public and political recognition that mental health is as important as physical health.
For communities of color that have a history of trauma and lack of access to health care, the need has been especially acute.
Artpace in San Antonio celebrates iconic feminist artist Carolee Schneemann with exhibit, display
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Groundbreaking feminsit artist Carolee Schneemann, pictured at a 2017 retrospective in Germany, is the inspiration for a new exhibit at Artpace.picture alliance /Getty ImagesShow MoreShow Less
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Beili Liu’s “A Breath” is part of the exhibit “After Carolee: Tender and Fierce” at Artpace.ArtpaceShow MoreShow Less
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“Pony Coccon,” a video by artist Virginia Lee Montgomery, is part of “After Carolee: Tender and Fierce,” a group exhibition at Artpace.Virginia Lee MontgomeryShow MoreShow Less
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Artist Paloma Mayorga’s digital chromatic print “Valesoro3” is part of “After Carolee: Tender and Fierce” at Artpace.Paloma MayorgaShow MoreShow Less
Pioneer Tower (Fort Worth)
From the Fort Worth Public Art Commission:
“The premiere of the works by Refik Anadol and Quayola will be the centerpiece for a free community event currently scheduled for the last weekend in February 2021.
“The new video artwork produced for the Fort Worth Pioneer Tower commission will be a continuation of Quayola’s ongoing research on the tradition of landscape painting, and more broadly a reflection on man’s tradition of representing nature. This new artwork will be divided into three main chapters, Tree Laser Scanning, Computational Landscape Paintings, and Computational Animal Paintings.
“Honoring the cultural significance and legacy of Fort Worth, Anadol’s piece aims to celebrate the people, places, histories, and dreams of the city that have been woven together over the years.
Photo courtesy Marc Piscotty
Betty Torres, 38, of Denver, walks at Garfield Lake Park in Denver one afternoon. Torres was diagnosed and hospitalized with COVID-19 back in March and has mostly recovered, but lost her grandfather to the virus and had it work its way through her entire family. Torres was scared to leave the house for a while after struggling to overcome COVID for fear of being exposed again.
By Tina Griego
Colorado News Collaborative
On Denver’s west side, an elderly man had been managing his solitude just fine until the pandemic hit, taking with it what social life he had and leaving in its place a loneliness he had not felt for years.