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Sterling Ruby
Sterling Ruby (born January 21, 1972) is an American artist who works in a large variety of media including ceramics, painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, video, and textiles. Often, his work is presented in large and densely packed installations. The artist has cited a diverse range of sources and influences including aberrant psychologies (particularly schizophrenia and paranoia), urban gangs and graffiti, hip-hop culture, craft, punk, masculinity, violence, public art, prisons, globalization, American domination and decline, waste and consumption. In opposition to the minimalist artistic tradition and influenced by the ubiquity of urban graffiti, the artist's works often appear scratched, defaced, camouflaged, dirty, or splattered. Proclaimed as one of the most interesting artists to emerge this century by New York Times art critic Roberta Smith, Ruby's work examines the psychological space where individual expression confronts social constraint. Sterling Ruby currently lives ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bitburg
Bitburg (; french: Bitbourg; lb, Béibreg) is a city in Germany, in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate approximately 25 km (16 mi.) northwest of Trier and 50 km (31 mi.) northeast of Luxembourg city. The American Spangdahlem Air Base is nearby. History The city's name derives from its Celtic toponym, ''Beda''. Bitburg originated approximately 2,000 years ago as a stopover for traffic from Lyon through Metz and Trier to Cologne. The first name mentioned was ''Vicus Beda''. Emperor Constantine the Great expanded the settlement to a road castle around 330, the central part of which forms the town centre today. Bitburg is first documented only after the end of the Roman Empire around 715 as ''castrum bedense''. It subsequently became part of Franconia. The first mention of Bitburg in historic annals occurred in connection with the signing in 1239 of the Trier-Luxembourg Treaty between Archbishop Theoderich II of Trier and Countess Ermesinde II of Luxemburg, un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Freedom, Pennsylvania
New Freedom is a borough in York County, Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the borough had a population of 4,874. Once an industrial/railroad town, the community has evolved into a mostly residential town. History New Freedom Borough is located in the southern portion of York County, Pennsylvania. The borough borders the Mason-Dixon line and was incorporated in 1873. Originally named “Freedom” for the Free family, there was another town already in existence with that name, so New Freedom was chosen as the official name. People of German, English, and Scotch-Irish descent settled the area. The rich, fertile soil provided a comfortable living for farming and agricultural opportunities. Summers Canning Company operated in the town for years, canning the freshest harvests and then shipping the final products. Summers Canning Company was sold to Hanover Foods in 1984. A mural depicting scenes from the Summers Canning Company is displayed on a building along the York County H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Kelley (artist)
Michael Kelley (October 27, 1954 – January 31, 2012) was an American artist. His work involved found objects, textile banners, drawings, assemblage, collage, performance and video. He often worked collaboratively and had produced projects with artists Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler, and John Miller. Writing in ''The New York Times'', in 2012, Holland Cotter described the artist as "one of the most influential American artists of the past quarter century and a pungent commentator on American class, popular culture and youthful rebellion." Early life Kelley was born in Wayne, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, to a working class Roman Catholic family in October 1954.Holland Cotter,Mike Kelley, an Artist with Attitude, Dies at 57" ''The New York Times'', Feb 1, 2012, accessed April 22, 2012. His father was in charge of maintenance for a public school system; his mother was a cook in the executive dining room at Ford Motor Company. In his early years he was involved with the area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurence A
Laurence is an English and French given name (usually female in French and usually male in English). The English masculine name is a variant of Lawrence and it originates from a French form of the Latin ''Laurentius'', a name meaning "man from Laurentum". The French feminine name Laurence is a form of the masculine ''Laurent'', which is derived from the Latin name. Given name * Laurence Broze (born 1960), Belgian applied mathematician, statistician, and economist * Laurence des Cars, French curator and art historian * Laurence Neil Creme, known professionally as Lol Creme, British musician * Laurence Ekperigin (born 1988), British-American basketball player in the Israeli National League * Laurence Equilbey, French conductor * Laurence Fishburne, American actor * Laurence Fournier Beaudry, Canadian ice dancer * Laurence Fox, British actor *Laurence Gayte (born 1965), French politician * Laurence S. Geller, British-born, US-based real estate investor. * Laurence Ginnell, Irish p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sylvère Lotringer
Sylvère Lotringer (15 October 1938 – 8 November 2021) was a French-born Literary critics, literary critic and cultural theorist. Initially based in New York City, he later lived in Los Angeles and Baja California, Mexico.Hultkrans, Andrew"Bookforum talks with Sylvère Lotringer,"14 September 2015. Retrieved 7 October 2021.Schwarz, Henry and Anne Balsamo. "Under the Sign of Semiotext(e): The Story According to Sylvere Lotringer and Chris Kraus," ''Critique'', Spring 1996, p. 205–21. He is best known for synthesizing Post-structuralism, French theory with American literary, cultural and architectural avant-garde movements as founder of the journal ''Semiotext(e)'' and for his interpretations of theory in a 21st-century context.Darms, Lisa"Semiotext at the Biennial: An Interview with Hedi el Kholti,"''Hyperallergic'', 17 May 2014. Retrieved 7 October 2021.Whitney Museum of American ArtSemiotext(e)2014 Biennial. Retrieved 7 October 2021.''Semiotext(e)''Sylvère Lotringer Retrieve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hawkins (artist)
Richard Hawkins (born 1961 in Mexia, Texas) is an American artist. He lives and works in Los Angeles. His works are held by museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Modern Art, and the Art Institute of Chicago. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Texas, Austin in 1984 and a Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) in 1988. After graduating from Cal Arts, Hawkins worked for a time as a short story writer. Hawkins' art largely consists of sculpture and collage. His works combine "ubiquitous pop-culture images and objects with arcane references and quotes"; frequent themes include "current celebrities, literary lions of yesteryear, haunted houses, Asian sex tourism, Greek and Roman statuary and the American Indian experience". He is gay, and his sexuality also informs his artwork. According to art historian Richard Meyer, Hawkins' "mash-up favant-garde, kitsch and kink", including the use of traditi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Diana Thater
Diana Thater (born May 14, 1962, in San Francisco) is an American artist, curator, writer, and educator. She has been a pioneering creator of film, video, and installation art since the early 1990s. She lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Education and career Thater studied Art History at New York University and earned her BA in 1984. In 1990 she was awarded an MFA from Art Center College of Design. Since 2000, Thater has been the artist-in-residence for The Dolphin Project, a non-profit organization that protects cetaceans from slaughter, captivity, and abuse. In 2009, Diana Thater taught art at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland. Work Thater's work explores the temporal qualities of video and film while literally expanding it into space. She is best known for her site-specific installations in which she manipulates architectural space through forced interaction with projected images and tinted light, such as ''knots + surfaces'' (2001) and ''D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Horsfield
Kate Horsfield (born 1944), is an American artist who focused her work on video art and video documentation. She is also an author and teacher. She is best known for co-founding the Video Data Bank in 1976, an international video art distribution organization with Lyn Blumenthal. Life and career Horsfield was born in Topeka, Kansas. In 1960 she moved to Chicago. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1976. Horsfield and Blumenthal began a project that included the making of in-depth video interviews with visual and performance artists, critics, and photographers. The first interview was with art historian and curator Marcia Tucker at Artemisia Gallery in Chicago in 1974. Together they also produced more than 90 interviews with artists such as Agnes Martin, Alice Neel, Lee Krasner, Romare Bearden, Joseph Beuys, Vito Acconci and Buckminster Fuller. The video interviews were made between 1974 and 1988. As an educator Horsfield periodically taught ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Data Bank
Video Data Bank (VDB) is an international video art distribution organization and resource in the United States for videos by and about contemporary artists. Located in Chicago, Illinois, VDB was founded at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1976 at the inception of the media arts movement. VDB provides experimental video art, documentaries made by artists, and interviews with visual artists and critics for a wide range of audiences. These include microcinemas, moving image festivals, media arts centers, universities, libraries, museums, community-based workshops, public television, and cable TV Public-access television centers. Video Data Bank currently holds over 6,000 titles in distribution, by more than 600 artists, available in a variety of screening and archival video formats. It also actively publishes anthologies and curated programs of video art. The preservation of historic video is an ongoing project of the Video Data Bank. The total holdings, including wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
