Q&A with incoming MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch, part one
This is the first published interview with incoming MOCA director and current Deitch Projects gallery-owner Jeffrey Deitch. It was conducted via phone with Deitch in Los Angeles earlier tonight. (MOCA communications director Lyn Winter was on the call with Deitch, but did not participate in the Q&A.) [ Image
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Q&A with incoming MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch, part one
This is the second post of MAN’s three-part Q&A with incoming MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch: T he ethical questions created by his new position . Part one, in which Deitch and I discuss his move from commercial dealer to non-profit executive, is here
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Q&A with incoming MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch, part two
Illustration: Pan Pipes textile design by Harry Napper 1890s Harry Napper was probably one of the most influential designers connected with the prodigious and to some extent prestigious output of the London retail outlet Liberty. Although Napper supplied a number of textile designs, he was also involved in the design of carpets and rugs, furniture and metalwork, much of it for Liberty.
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Harry Napper, Liberty and English Art Nouveau
In a Friday post about Byron Kim’s Synecdoche (1991-present), I noted the work’s intellectual roots in America’s 1980s and 1990s debates about multiculturalism. The United States wasn’t the only country to have a national conversation about multiculturalism in those years and it wasn’t just Kim who used tried-and-true art strategies to engage with that discourse: Great Britain had its own debate about multiculturalism and what it meant for the British
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Art and the multi-cultural 1990s: From Kim to Shonibare
People-power actualizes unheard-of discounts at Delhi’s premier restaurants, bars, movies, salons, yoga and much more… Smart Delhiites saved over Rs.2.5 lakhs in under 2 months by shopping collectively online in groups through mydala.com, a unique start-up portal that helps individuals get deep discounts that were so far available only on corporate deals. While social media like Facebook and Twitter focus on social networking, MyDala harnesses the power of group buying to facilitate social commerce.
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In Its First Month,Mydala Helps save Delhities Rs.2.5 Lakhs Through Group Buying Online
Illustration: Hindoo Ornament from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament 1856 Owen Jones started his chapter on Hindoo Ornament in his groundbreaking The Grammar of Ornament first published in 1856, with an apology for the poor record that Britain had of early Indian architectural and ornamental decoration. He surmised rightly, that at some point in the future the British would have as large a collection and more importantly, the same level of understanding of Indian art and design, as they were beginning to achieve with that of Ancient Egypt for example
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Owen Jones and Hindoo Ornament
Today sees the opening of the exhibition Warriors of the Plains: 200 Years of native North American Honour and Ritual at the British Museum in London. The exhibition puts together artefacts that focus on the various indigenous cultures that lived on the North American Plains between 1800 to the present day.
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Warriors of the Plains: 200 Years of Native North American Honour and Ritual
Illustration: Selection of Chemehuevi basketry and pottery The Chemehuevi, like so many indigenous cultures across the South West of the US, were and still are expert basketry makers. The Chemehuevi have a long tradition of basketry that extends across countless generations. The basketry craft itself was the traditional domain of women as it was across much of North America.
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Chemehuevi Basketry
Illustration: Honiton lace design 1910 The town of Honiton in Devon produced some of the most sought after lace in England. It was said that the town had been producing lace since the Elizabethan era, though it is now thought that serious production of lace did not begin for another century after that.
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The Revival of Honiton Lace
Illustration: Woman’s embroidered shirt, Western Siberia Siberia is a huge sprawling and diverse area of the planet and contains a complex patchwork of people and cultures, from the original indigenous people, to those brought in through various waves of immigration from the Russian Empire through to the Soviet Union and now the Russian Federation. Although most areas of Russia have their own distinct embroidery traditions and skills and many may well have brought those traditions with them to Siberia, it is the indigenous cultures that make up the bulk of embroidery techniques and pattern work of the area
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An Introduction to Siberian Embroidery
Illustration: Pat Dolan Earth Cells The organically inspired textile artwork of Pat Dolan can be viewed as both a reflection of the macro or micro cosmos that we live both with and inside. Dolan in fact shows us a world that we cannot see with our own eyes and very often find hard to perceive. It is a world of building blocks, an organically derived series of balances and relationships between near likenesses and complete opposites
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Pat Dolan and the Juxtapositions of Life
Illustration: Harriet Powers Bible quilt 1886 The quilting work of Harriet Powers is a symbolists dream. The two quilts shown here, detail some of the important stories and legends of the Bible set within a panelled quilt. However, these are by no means pieces that can be tagged as ‘naive’ or even ‘folk’ art; they were produced by a woman with an instinctive understanding of some of the complex messages underlying the stories
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Harriet Powers Bible Quilt
Illustration: Ernest Percyval Tudor-Hart First Sin tapestry 1961 Ernest Percyval Tudor-Hart was a Canadian fine artist who spent a large section of his career in Paris and London where he opened and taught in his own schools, within the first two decades of the twentieth century. Tudor-Hart moved in some of the best artistic circles in Europe and knew a number of artists including the Hungarians Alador Korosfoi-Kriesch and Sondor Nagy, and so therefore also knew the Godollo Arts & Crafts colony in Hungary.
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Percyval Tudor-Hart and the First Sin
The Aran Islands are a group of small windswept islands situated off the west coast of Ireland which has given us a unique and often copied knit genre. It is important not to confuse Aran with the Scottish island of Arran which has nothing to do with Aran knit and is in no way related or linked in anyway with the Irish Aran
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Irish Aran Knit
Chris Ofili Foreword by Peter Doig, conversation with Thelma Golden, contributions by David Adjaye, Carol Becker, Okwui Enwezor, Cameron Shaw and Kara Walker hardcover, 272 pages, 200 color images and b&w drawings, 2009 $85 Rizzoli New York This gorgeous coffee table book about the works of Afro-British artist Chris Ofili is a love affair from start to finish. Great photos of the works — in situ in gallery spaces and in amazing closeups of the rambunctious details — make for hours of satisfactory page-turning
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Book-stravaganza 2 – Monographs and show catalogs
Illustration: Byzantine Ornament from Owen Jones The Grammar of Ornament 1856 Owen Jones placed the chapter on Byzantine ornament between that of the Roman and Arabian in his 1856 book entitled The Grammar of Ornament . This chapter sequence was always important to Jones as it set out his theories of who influenced who and who followed who, both culturally and historically. He saw the decorative style of Byzantium as following on from the Roman phase and being an important element of the following Islamic decorative style
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Owen Jones and Byzantium
Illustration: Pazyryk saddlecloth depicting an elk It is now assumed by many archaeologists that the people, who were initially entitled as Pazyryk , are in fact either Scythian or at least a branch of that culture and people. The Scythians were a nomadic people who used the great plains of central Asia and southern Russia as their extensive homeland. Many different cultures have used the vast steppes of Europe and Asia for past millennia, but they have all shared a particularly common bond, seeing textiles as an important element of their lifestyles, even being seen as one of the main domestic ingredients of their mobile cultures
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Pazyryk Horsemen and Elks
Gerrie Congdon Sunset Composition 2009 The textile artist Gerrie Congdon produces work that deals with the elemental landscape. The natural world is such a large part of Congdon’s compositions that they set both the scene and the style of each piece. Her work forms a collage of experiences all of which are of the quiet, thoughtful and reflective variety, the best type when observing and representing the natural world.
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The Quiet Stillness of the Textile Work of Gerrie Congdon
Illustration: Icelandic Church embroidery Icelandic Christian based and themed embroidery started with the conversion of Iceland in 1000 to the start of the Protestant Reformation church in 1550. Icelandic religious embroideries were used throughout the numerous Catholic Church services and came in the form of altar cloths, chalice veils and a range of other church furnishings.
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Icelandic Christian Embroidery
When talking about Tule River basketry we should of course be really talking about Yokut basketry. The Yokut nation originally consisted of over sixty diverse and distinct communities, all speaking a common language and sharing the larger Yokut culture, all living within central inland California. Basketry, as with most Native American cultures, was an important element in the daily domestic life of people, and was often so intertwined with the day to day running of life that the maintenance of a fully functioning professional basketry craft base could often be a factor in the success or failure of a community.
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Tule River Basketry