by Carlyn Yandle | Nov 22, 2013 | Art, Art Discourse, Climate Change, Critique, Culture, Environmental Art, Expression, Found Objects, Globalization, Motivation, Performance Art, Political Art, Social Justice
Carlyn Yandle photo The astronomical private art-investor feeding frenzy at prestigious auction houses is light years away from art. It’s a greedy need for prestige, worlds apart from the hand of Picasso or Andy Warhol and, most recently, Francis Bacon and the...
by Carlyn Yandle | Mar 15, 2013 | Aesthetics, Art Discourse, Creative Process, Critique, Installation, Production, Public Art, Sculpture, Vancouver
A few weeks back, one of the local dailies ran a staff photo of a grumpy-looking woman wearing a hand-drawn sign around her neck that read: “Mount Pleasant needs a pool not a poodle on a pole.” God, I miss the newsroom sometimes. When that kind of photo lands on your...
by Carlyn Yandle | Feb 8, 2013 | Art Discourse, Creative Process, Critique, Ideas, Perception, Process
I do so love a shit-disturber, whether it’s fearless Middle-East reporter/author Robert Fisk ripping apart mainstream media last Saturday night downtown or the venerable art critic Jan Verwoert at UBC Wednesday night, talking about “irreconcilable ape-shittedness.”...
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