On the cusp of her family’s move to Chicago, Marianne Bernstein talks with Roberta about her two international artist residency projects, Due North (in Iceland) and Due South (in Sicily). Bernstein has made friends and memories here and given lots of artists opportunities to exhibit in her projects. We hear Chicago has artists too, and we’ll be following Bernstein’s work with those artists in coming years. This is Part 1 of a two-part interview conducted via email. Look for Part 2 next week.
Read MoreJosé Ortiz-Pagán grew up in a small town in Southern Puerto Rico where he was a skater and a fledgling grafitti artist. Fast forward a few and now, he’s been in Philadelphia for seven years. The Tyler MFA in printmaking and sculpture talks about being an activist and about the political roots of his current work at the new Latino art commercial gallery, RACSO.
Read MoreWithin the conditions of digital technologies of production, reproduction and distribution, we are all busy working away at our creations, leaving no cultural space for others to look and contemplate. Here we come back to our guiding question: if we are all compelled to be artists, what happens to the figure of the artist understood as something other than simply the producer of content? Indeed, what happens to art as a zone of cultural activity that is not simply subsumable to the endless machinations of creative production and reproduction?
Read MoreRoberta and Libby interview Beth Heinly in this 16-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.
Read MoreRoberta and Libby interview curator Brian Wallace in this 16-minute podcast for Artblog Radio.
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