Arezoo’s Blog

Arezoo’s Blog header image 4

Entries Tagged as 'Strategy'

Artists’ Contracts | Curators

August 5th, 2009 · No Comments

Based on a 1971 contract produced by exhibition organizer Seth Siegelaub and lawyer Robert Projansky, artist Maria Eichhorn took nine years to interview a group of artists and gallerists discussing the troublesome aspects of drafting contracts that may or may not have protected artists and their future gains. Two pictures in the book show Vassilakis […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Art · Art Market · Bern · Books · Business · Contemporary Art · Culture · Debate · Risk · Strategy · Theory

4 a.m. Manifesto

May 27th, 2009 · 3 Comments

A is for alba, currently on view at Wave Hill, is Ilene Sunshine‘s most recent magical site-specific installation. There has been a significant transformation in the way viewers experience this installation, since its opening in March and the seasonal change in the surrounding landscape. Similar to Santiago Calatrava who rises at 4 a.m., Sunshine is […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Arkitektur · Books · Contemporary Art · Exhibitions · Installation · Sculpture · Strategy

The Bucky Challenge

May 5th, 2009 · No Comments

The winner of 2009 Buckminster Fuller Challenge was announced yesterday. Sustainable Personal Mobility and Mobility-on-Demand Systems (SPM/MoD) was submitted by Smart Cities Group an interdisciplinary team of students at MIT. The June 6th ceremony will be part of a weekend long celebration in Chicago where the $100,000 prize will be presented to the winners . […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Arkitektur · Business · Design · Environment · Strategy · Technology

Libraries Day + Night

April 19th, 2009 · 1 Comment

A month ago Evan Mirapaul, the contemporary art collector and founder of Elements Quartet, pulled off a gracious last minute appearance in a revealing Artist Dialogue with brilliant librarian and artist Deirdre Donohue. He was ecstatically enthusiastic as he showed us his copy of The Library at Night by Alberto Manguel. National Library Week (April […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Books · Business · Community · Contemporary Art · Culture · Librarians · Libraries · Music · New York · Photography · Strategy

Contemporary Thinkers

April 3rd, 2009 · 11 Comments

Thanks to Diarmuid Costello and Jonathan Vickery students, art collectors and anyone else interested in understanding contemporary art, can tap into short and succinct explanations of theories by some of the major thinkers who have formulated their interpretations of art since 1960. This book is an explicative and critical index to the works and ideas […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Arezoo Moseni · Art · Basel · Books · Contemporary Art · Criticism · Culture · Education · History · Online Journals · Philosophy · Strategy · Theory

Idea Index

March 2nd, 2009 · No Comments

Each year as part of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge, a distinguished jury panel awards a $100,000 prize to an idea which supports the development and implementation of a strategy with significant potential to solve humanity’s most pressing problems. Comprehensive Design for a Carbon Neutral World: The Challange of Appalachia was John Todd’s winning idea in […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Arkitektur · Community · Design · Environment · Evolution · Mind · Strategy · Technology · Theory

The Art Scene

January 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Over the past seven or eight years the contemporary art market has had an unprecedented rise in activities and prices. The irony is that if we were to look through the auction catalogues of contemporary art from fifteen or twenty years ago we will recognize works by artists who have lost their place in the […]

[Read more →]

Tags: Art Market · Bern · Books · Business · Contemporary Art · Culture · Museums · Strategy