Cleaning Out Rauschenberg’s Attic: Places In The Sun For His Late Work
By Randy Kennedy | The New York Times The artist Robert Rauschenberg hated repeating himself, art-wise, and said that his works, as an honest reflection of his life, were “really just evidence that I’m still paying attention.” But for many years after his groundbreaking pieces of the 1950s and ’60s, the art world paid a… Read More
Rematch, The Mel Chin Exhibit Opening Today At NOMA, Is Both Beautiful And Informative
By Jeannie Reiss | Gambit Weekly This review originally appeared here Mel Chin sat in the center of a room in the New Orleans Museum of Art pasted floor to ceiling with 542 surrealist scenes he’d arranged from Funk and Wagnall’s Encyclopedia. Finishing up an interview on the eve of the opening of his first-ever… Read More
The Artist Is Not Present
By Mel Chin | The Huffington Post This article originally appeared here In the following account, I contemplate my upcoming retrospective exhibition. In response to being asked to describe my feelings surrounding the event, I wrote a story from the perspective of a fictional art historian reporting from the studio, leading up to and including… Read More
Mel Chin Retrospective Opens At New Orleans Museum Of Art
By Doug MacCash, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune This review originally appeared here Conceptual master Mel Chin’s first major retrospective, titled “Mel Chin: Rematch,” opens Thursday (Feb. 20) evening at The New Orleans Museum of Art. You may remember Chin. He’s the Houston-born artist who installed an enormous, round, working bank vault door on a small… Read More
Mel Chin
As told to Lauren O’Neill-Butler | ARTFORUM “Mel Chin: Rematch,” a traveling retrospective organized by the New Orleans Museum of Art and curated by NOMA’s Miranda Lash, presents more than seventy works and documents related to Chin’s collective interventions. Chin is perhaps best known for Operation Paydirt, 2006, a project that supports solutions to end… Read More
Review: Photography And The American Civil War
D. Eric Bookhardt on vintage photos now on view at the New Orleans Museum of Art By D. Eric Bookhardt | Gambit Weekly This review originally appeared here It was America’s bloodiest war — brother against brother fighting to the bitter end. We grew up hearing that, and if it sounds overhyped, consider that its… Read More