I’d say welcome to New York, and maybe start singing a Taylor Swift song in your general direction, but this semester’s going to be virtual. Which, I suppose, means that I’m going to be documentingRead More
Since video games were pulled out of arcade machines and onto computer and TV screens, critics and artists alike have hotly debated the question of whether or not video games qualify as art. Some foundRead More
I’ve always found conservation fascinating— it’s not a field I plan to go into, nor is it one for which I have a particularly apt skill set. But given that my majors span history, naturalRead More
For all that artists are known for working or living in collectives, and for all that we think of the art world as a community, it’s rare that we think of artists as working collaborativelyRead More
I had no way of knowing this before “attending” Victoria Szabo’s Zoom talk earlier this week, but it turns out she’s pretty much who I want to be when I grow up. She’s way
Growing complexity and formality of video game art Inclusion of video game references in modern art Video game design as a career for formally trained artists Legal and critical debates about this subject Art exhibitions
Honestly, I wanted to start this post off with any number of kitchen-related puns. Something about ideas marinating, or how the conversation lit a fire under my butt (motivationally speaking), or how I have ideasRead More
My main takeaway from listening to Claudia Bitran talk for an hour was mostly that as eclectic as someone’s career might be, you never really know how much planning, detail, and forethought is simmering underRead More
“All art asks you to notice something, to pay attention.” She said it fairly early on in our virtual studio visit, but those words seem pretty integral to understanding Jessica Stockholder’s perspective on art. HerRead More
The New York Times’ arts section is quite well-known for its consistently excellent writing, its massive readership, and its fairly famous reviews from critics of art, literature, theater, and more. I’ve sort of always beenRead More
The first moment of a group Zoom call with Keith Allyn Spencer was slightly jarring—both in its strangeness and in its familiarity. He spoke with us from his studio-office on the campus where heRead More