Updates and Artfag 23

I have been in New York for the past few days, researching the thesis and seeing some art (some good, some atrocious, but more on that later) and am now madly trying to finish the first draft of said thesis to meet a now-overdue deadline, so my blog updating has been...

Synchronized Presidential Debating

A lot of the post-election analysis has focused on how on-message Obama had been throughout his campaign, but this amazing-could-be-art-if-it-was-in-some-other-context video makes just how consistent both he and McCain were blindingly, appallingly clear. In short,...

Stan Douglas’ “Abbott and Cordova”

I am totally biased about such things, because I love Stan Douglas’ work (so much so I am writing a thesis about it), but this week the artist’s newest photo project, a huge mural destined for the renovated Woodward’s building in Vancouver’s...

Todd Haynes’ “Superstar”

Apparently, director Todd Haynes, of Far From Heaven and I’m Not There fame, made a reenactment documentary of the life of Karen Carpenter shortly after his graduation from Brown University with a degree in art and semiotics (not surprising). Called...