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MAY 16, 2016 1:50 PM
LINDSEY STANBERRY
There are over 45 million Americans living below the poverty line. Photographer Louisa Marie Summer has captured the story of one such family. In her book, Jennifer’s Family, she photographed the highs and lows of the life of a 26-year-old Rhode Island woman, her partner, and their four kids. They’ve struggled with illness, money troubles, and incarceration, but at the center of the book is hope.
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Throughout her distinguished career, Mona Hatoum has questioned and explored themes of themes of home, displacement, and self. Whether taking shape as installation, sculpture, video, photography, or works on paper, Hatoum’s art elicits strong psychological and emotional responses. In celebration of her internationally acclaimed work, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), will honor Hatoum at the Medal Award Gala on May 23, 2016, in the Ruth and Carl J. Shapiro Family Courtyard at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. First presented in 1996, SMFA’s annual Medal Award recognizes notable artists and influential art patrons for their commitment to and impact on the art world.
“Mona Hatoum is one of the essential creative voices of our time, an artist whose work challenges us to rethink a world fractured by conflict and imagine new forms of connection,” says SMFA President Chris Bratton. “We are privileged to be honoring her with this year’s SMFA Medal Award.”
Hatoum first became widely known in the mid 1980s for a series of performance and video works that focused with great intensity on the body. In the 1990s her work moved increasingly towards large-scale installations and sculpture. Working in a diverse range of media, she has developed a language in which domestic, everyday objects are often transformed into foreign, threatening, or surreal sculptures.
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Brainard Carey
The Art World Demystified
How Artists Define and Achieve Their Goals
Allworth Press, New York 2016
308 Seiten, 19,19 €
Das Buch ist im epodium Bookshop erhältlich.
The Art World Demystified unfolds the confusing and often treacherous terrain of the art world, revealing the inner workings of a system that has few rules but many opportunities. In this volume, artists will find their own questions reflected and addressed, including:
- How does an artist penetrate the inner circle of the art world?
- How do museums choose exhibits?
- How can an artist reach critics and get feedback?
- How do artists make a living, and how much can they expect to make?
- What are the “rules” of the art world?
- Why is it all so mysterious?
