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Technology on its own just isn’t as fun. It needs art. To some extent, I do agree with the following… The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people. ~Karl Marx Artists are extremely USEFUL people.
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I know, I know. I should be writing about an artist I don’t really care for or agree with because that would make for an interesting piece of art writing but this is an art diary (of sorts) and, well, I can write what I want (for now)! I’m sure my writing will go into varying […]
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african american / beauty / consumerism / contemporary art / drawing / feminism / Feminist Art / painting / printmaking / re-appropriation / vanity¶¶¶¶¶
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A few weeks ago, my girlfriend and I went to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and watched Rottenberg’s new work entitled, Squeeze (2010). I titled part of my entry as ‘Interdependence’ because, coincidentially, I’ve been reading about interdepedence with others (and, even with inantimate objects) through a Buddhist lens and trying to incorporate that awareness within a meditative […]
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Body Image / consumerism / feminism / Feminist Art / Film / Gesture / Interdependence / Labor / Manufacturing / Mika Rottenberg / repetition / SFMOMA / Squeeze / Video / Video Installation / Whitney Biennele / Women’s Studies¶¶¶¶¶
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…there is safety for these artists living and working outside the boundaries of the art world…
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writer | artist | scholar
Dorothy R. Santos, Ph.D. 