Apr 17, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
The national conversation surrounding the arts in academia has focused on, at various times recently, the arts as: an engine of commerce, a tool for better articulating science or of theater, a training method for business to learn better communication skills…...
Apr 10, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
In the first days of Spring I find myself feeling very grateful. In the midst of ever-increasing dissonance in the world, in my own day-to-day work life and in the lives of others, I find that I crave peace and quite; space and time for reflection and the ability to...
Apr 3, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
After spending two days at Yale giving a talk and meeting with students, I spent a couple hours on the train back to New York in conversation with two of my fellow visiting artists, A.I. Steiner and Michael Jones McKean. Both of my travel colleagues are practicing...
Mar 27, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
I’ve been thinking about the idea of the sequence lately. When I think about sequential mark-making, Braille and Morse code come to mind as does the I-Ching, related as they are by the repetition of simple dots or dashes in groups that acquire meaning through...
Mar 13, 2017 | Essay, From the Chair
The “art world” is expansive, porous and constantly redefining itself. While art in the current era pushes at the boundaries of historical models, there are still mainstream constructions of circulation and distribution that persist, that may seem...
