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...Chai's father, Winberg Chai, was a respected professor of Asian studies whose own parents had left Taiwan for New York when he was a boy. He married Carolyn Everett, a beautiful California artist and, in 1979, accepted a vice presidency at the University of South Dakota. It was an opportunity to move his young family from the crime and crowding of greater New York to the healthier and supposedly friendlier air of rural America. As for race, writes his daughter, "we had imagined the segregated past was just that, past...
...Proving his point, the good-humored artist was in Sydney last week to open his latest exhibition, which shows that there is indeed a world beyond art fairs and biennales. As his indonesian holden rider society T shirt indicated, Kesminas has been spending time with Australia's northern neighbors, and while on a residency at Yogyakarta's Indonesian Art Institute in 2005, the artist hooked up with some like-minded students to form the garage band Punkasila. Their name is a punk play on founding President Sukarno's five pillars of nationhood, Pancasila; just as playfully, the band like...
...speech and challenges Australian notions that its neighbor is a hotbed of Islamic fundamentalism. With fun and flair, Kesminas shows that much is permissible. "It's the perfect time," he says, "and in all honesty, five years ago you'd probably be put in jail for doing this." The artist nearly was, though not in Indonesia. While lugging back one of his machine-gun guitars from Yogyakarta last year, Kesminas was detained for five hours at Melbourne Airport. "You could say that I was asking for it, and I am," he says. "The project does straddle that fault line...
...hall with kids screaming,” Patti said in that same 1976 interview. “To me, that’s the ultimate in rock and roll.” She could have been a new kind of woman. She could have been a new kind of artist, and she could have played a new kind of rock and roll. But now she just plays old favorites to clubs of Nader voters. The Patti Smith revolution that so many hoped for never materialized, and this album is final proof of that sad fact...
...does vary, but the thing that unites them is that they’re either large-scale works or temporal works,” Hays says. The exhibit also places emphasis on the holistic process and conceptualization of creating such art. It contains written statements from its 10 contributors, artists both affiliated and unaffiliated with the Harvard community. “Every piece will have an artist statement with it, and that’s an important part of the exhibit. This exhibit treats the artwork as a process, or as willing to exhibit an entire process from conceptualization...