After five years in print, @theseenjournal launches a new website and digital platform for art criticism with an archive of over 500+ in-depth essays, reviews, interviews, and special editions. https://t.co/8UnF4LDV0k
We are welcoming applications for a part-time intern this Spring in our Chicago office. Please send a CV to [email protected] by January 31 to be considered!
I have always thought that the negotiation between form and content in art mirrors the struggle between idealism and realism in life. In a musical composition, form is what keeps everything together, a temporal structure that is beautiful on its own...
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ISSUE 09 IS LIVE! 👀 THE SEEN is the only Chicago-based exclusive contemporary art criticism journal distributed in museums across Europe and the United States, and Issue 09 launches today at @expochicago. Visit our website to read all of the pieces.
#ONLINE Tacita Dean's 16mm film, "Ear on a Worm," was commissioned for and shown within the traveling exhibition, "Leonard Cohen: A Crack in Everything." Its most recent iteration was at The Jewish Museum in New York City, which writer Casey Carsel reviewed for THE SEEN Online.
#JustPublished Celia Glastris interviews Brooklyn-based artist André Filipek-Magaña on 3D Printing, his recent solo exhibition at @prairie.chicago, and the trend in Western museums to conflate non-Western art with "the ancient."
Read the interview on THE SEEN's website now. 🌠
rel robinson writes on selfies and loneliness through the lens of SFMOMA's recently closed exhibition, 'snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks.'
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#JustPublished! Live on THE SEEN's website, Staff Writer Rashayla Marie Brown reviews the MCA's massive summer exhibition, "Virgil Abloh: Figures of Speech." https://t.co/Bto68dtwZy
Canadian artists Vincent Trasov and Michael Morris founded their artist collective, Image Bank, in the 1970s in Vancouver, CA. Their best known stunt is perhaps when Trasov ran in the Mayoral election as his performance-character, Mr. Peanut.
CONGRATS to our Editor-in-Chief, Stephanie Cristello, on her inclusion in NewCity's Art 50: Chicago’s Visual Vanguard 2019.
Read the entire piece @newcitymag.
Staff Writer Jill Danto published a review earlier in the year of the performative exhibition at the AIC, and the printed version in Issue 09 will include an expanded biography of the German artist, contextualizing the Chicago iteration of "Sex."
Announcing Issue 09 in Print! The cover of Issue 09 features a detail of an installation by Danish artist Stine Deja in collaboration with Marie Munk, entitled Synthetic Seduction (2019). https://t.co/4bVptY6Bpq
In Susan Mackey's recently published essay, "In a (Black) Way," Mackey looks at three young Chicago-based artists who use blackness as an abstraction. https://t.co/uAh7P5WeAh
Last week THE SEEN published a stellar review essay on the 2019 Venice Biennale by Rashayla Marie Brown. Read it on our website now. https://t.co/IFVqb2fYlC