The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archaeology
It’s going to be a great day in Chicago tomorrow morning. I am pleased to be bringing together a panel of curators, artists, archaeologists and scholars to have an open discussion about the emergence of archaeological themes in contemporary arts practice. I hope you will be able to join us in Chicago, and if not, ...
“The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archaeology” Session at TAG 2013
I’m delighted to announce that I will be co-organizing a roundtable discussion session with Dieter Roelstraete (Manilow Senior Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago) for the upcoming meeting of the Theoretical Archaeology Group at the University of Chicago this May. The session will feature artists, curators, and scholars responding to the upcoming exhibition at the Museum ...
Jin Shan’s “My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!” featured in DRA
Jordan Mainser 2013 Art + Twitter = Chinese Democracy, DRA. Read it here.
A conversation with Jin Shan 靳山
7 September 2012 List Art Center Brown University On the occasion of the opening of Jin Shan’s “My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!” at the David Winton Bell Gallery, curator Ian Alden Russell speaks with the artist about his artist career. More information: ianaldenrussell.com/projects/my-dad-is-li-gang-我爸是李刚
Video of contribution to ‘The Future of Museums and the Public Humanities’ Panel Discussion
October 24, 1st floor Library, Brown Center for Public Humanities, 357 Benefit Street, Providence, R.I., (use rear entrance off Williams Street) 5:30-7PM Round Table Discussion: “The Future of Museums and the Public Humanities: Perspectives from Italy,” with Paolo Rosa, Fitt Artist-in-Residence, Brown Creative Arts Council; Luigi Di Corato, General Director of the Siena Museums Foundation; ...
China Daily USA feature on Jin Shan 靳山 | My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!
Mike Peters 2012 “Courting Controversy” China Daily, November 23. Read it here.
Betsey Biggs’ Postcard Project featured in Bettery Magazine
Ayun Halliday & Betsey Biggs 2012 “How can we keep pre-digital communication’s most pleasurable rituals from becoming extinct?” in Bettery Magazine, November. Read it here.
Jin Shan 靳山 | My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!
Jin Shan 靳山 | My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚! David Winton Bell Gallery 1 September – 4 November 2012 Video documentation by Andy Romer Photography
Film Screening: Falling from the Sky 天降 (2009) Directed by Zhang Zanbo 张赞波
124 min. Mandarin Chinese with English subtitles. On the occasion of Jin Shan’s exhibition My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!, the David Winton Bell Gallery will host a special screening of Chinese documentary filmmaker Zhang Zanbo’s “Falling from the Sky” (2009). The screening will be introduced by Prof. Joshua Neves of Brown University’s Department of ...
‘Cultural Creativity’ & ‘Archaeological Influences in the Arts’
2012 Entries for The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Oxford University Press, Oxford.