Sean J Patrick Carney, Author at High Country News hcn.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from hcn.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Walker Art Center’s Teen Program How-To Kit offers a collection of reflections, conversations, and essays on cohort-based teen programs at museums paired with resources and instructions for applied activities.
THIS JULY, after more than a year of working quietly as the artist-in-residence at the Fabric Workshop and Museum in Philadelphia, Jayson Musson finally revealed His History of Art, a raucous multimedia installation featuring three episodes of a sidesplitting sitcom starring Musson as Jay, a pontifical art collector in a corduroy suit, and his unlikely roommate Ollie, a permastoned puppet rabbit. Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, and the Venus of Willendorf make cameos, the latter inspiring an orgy. Produced and filmed inside the museum, His History’s sets and props which alternately needle, salute,
TEN YEARS AGO, I got thrown through a wall in a shopping cart at an artist-run space in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was a histrionic (and injurious) opener to a half-hour set wherein I restaged stunts from Jackass the slapstick media franchise that debuted in 2000 as a television series on MTV alongside visually similar works of early performance art by Yoko Ono, Chris Burden, Marina Abramović, and Vito Acconci. Between such actions as permitting alarmingly zealous attendees to wax my chest and getting shot with a toy gun, I quoted from Julia Kristeva’s foundational 1980 treatise on grossness,
Sean J Patrick Carney on Land art and American entropy artforum.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from artforum.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.