22/05/06-NY10 still alive
Spend the past Saturday in Philadelphia, with a Chinatown Bus to and fro from NY.
The National Arts Journalism Program (NAJP) was holding their reunion there, and a conference titled The New Playing Field was held there at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It has three panel discussion, first starts with how the artists view their relationship with the journalist, second one invited some journalist that has moved on in running a magzine or editing one, and the impact that the internet has on them and how they response. Then it has a lunch break with food upstairs and tickets prepared for the Andrew Wyeth special exhibition on show. The third one is of the futurist, on those blog-writers, and media enterpreuer. Then it was followed with a split group discussion, and I joined in the one on Freelance strategies. I have a short chat with Andras Szanto over lunch, whose report on art journalism I have mentioned before in mmk blog. Yet the Program is now no more at Columbia University, and no funding coming from NEA. But despite the speakers all jump between using art critic(ism) and journalism freely, they never for example mention about the exhibition catalogues or even art magazines. So much of the problems raised in the freelancer discussion faced by the printed media writers have not really show up at the positive outlook of the three panels. I could only say, I still more interest in those art ciriticsm that is beyond journalism, despite the topics discussed here are more practical or realistic.
The rainy Sunday went swiftly, the only thing worth noting is that I went to Asia Society to see the performance Cambodian Stories: An offering of Painting and Dance, a group of young artists led by japanese choreographers/dancers Eiko and Koma. Should it be worth a note too, that on my way out, I met Xu Bing? Oh yes, I do forget, I also see Chu The Chun in person at Marlborough Gallery. And guess what, so Andrew Wyeth too is still alive and kicking, and still, of all things, painting!
The National Arts Journalism Program (NAJP) was holding their reunion there, and a conference titled The New Playing Field was held there at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It has three panel discussion, first starts with how the artists view their relationship with the journalist, second one invited some journalist that has moved on in running a magzine or editing one, and the impact that the internet has on them and how they response. Then it has a lunch break with food upstairs and tickets prepared for the Andrew Wyeth special exhibition on show. The third one is of the futurist, on those blog-writers, and media enterpreuer. Then it was followed with a split group discussion, and I joined in the one on Freelance strategies. I have a short chat with Andras Szanto over lunch, whose report on art journalism I have mentioned before in mmk blog. Yet the Program is now no more at Columbia University, and no funding coming from NEA. But despite the speakers all jump between using art critic(ism) and journalism freely, they never for example mention about the exhibition catalogues or even art magazines. So much of the problems raised in the freelancer discussion faced by the printed media writers have not really show up at the positive outlook of the three panels. I could only say, I still more interest in those art ciriticsm that is beyond journalism, despite the topics discussed here are more practical or realistic.
The rainy Sunday went swiftly, the only thing worth noting is that I went to Asia Society to see the performance Cambodian Stories: An offering of Painting and Dance, a group of young artists led by japanese choreographers/dancers Eiko and Koma. Should it be worth a note too, that on my way out, I met Xu Bing? Oh yes, I do forget, I also see Chu The Chun in person at Marlborough Gallery. And guess what, so Andrew Wyeth too is still alive and kicking, and still, of all things, painting!
posted by jaspar at 8:36 PM
1 Comments:
no, I didn't meet andrew wyeth, but he is born in 1917, so he isn't as old as you or we all think. He even admired the abstract expressionist, as one wall information goes!
But I should really have brought a catalogue of Chuen for AAA, and asked Chuen to sign for it.
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