Installation video: Wafaa Bilal | The Ashes Series
Hot off the digital press… Here a little installation video documenting my recent show with artist Wafaa Bilal at the David Winton Bell Gallery.
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, […]
After Surviving Marathon, Curator Revisits Exhibit About War
Greg Cook 2013 “After Surviving Marathon, Curator Revisits His Exhibit About War” in WBUR’s The Artery, April 17. Read it here.
Wafaa Bilal’s The Ashes Series reviewed in The Phoenix
Greg Cook 2013 “The Aftermath of Atrocity: Wafaa Bilal and Daniel Heyman at Brown’s Bell Gallery” in The Providence Phoenix, April 16. Read it here.
Wafaa Bilal’s The Ashes Series reviewed in The Boston Globe
The Boston Globe‘s Cate McQuaid’s review of Wafaa Bilal’s The Ashes Series. 9 April 2013 Read it here.
Wafaa Bilal’s The Ashes Series previewed in East Side Monthly
East Side Monthly‘s Erin Swanson wrote a lovely preview for Wafaa Bilal’s The Ashes Series that will open at the Bell Gallery on April 3. Read it here.
Selected for Celeste Prize 2013 Selection Panel
I’m honoured to have been invited to sit on the Selection Panel for the Celeste Prize 2013. Looking forward to reviewing all the work by contemporary artists from all over the globe. Celeste Prize is an international contemporary arts prize open to emerging and mid-career artists worldwide without limits of age, sex or experience. The […]
“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 […]
Art and War in Iraq Symposium Announced
5 April 2013, 12:15-5:30pm List Art Center Auditorium Ten years since the launch of Operation Iraqi Freedom and twenty-three years since the first Gulf War, the ramifications of the armed invasions and occupations of the Republic of Iraq by the United States continue to be felt by the Iraqi people as well as throughout the […]
Project video released: Jin Shan 靳山 | My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!
Artist Jin Shan discusses the ideas behind his installation “My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!” (2012) in the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University. Video footage by Ian Alden Russell, Andy Romer Photography, Frank Mullin, and Tara Cavanaugh. More information: http://ianaldenrussell.com/projects/my-dad-is-li-gang-我爸是李刚