Towards an ethics of oblivion and forgetting: The parallax view
2012 ‘Towards an ethics of oblivion and forgetting: The parallax view’ in Heritage & Society, Vol. 5, Iss. 2, pp. 249-272. Read it here.
‘Cultural Creativity’ & ‘Archaeological Influences in the Arts’
2012 Entries for The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
“We Propose” by Alexander Lembersky
Ian Alden Russell, Curator, David Winton Bell Gallery Alexander Lembersky, “We Propose” (1988), silkscreen. (B95 97.48) Late last week, I was preparing for a class visit by Stefan Gunn’s printing making and graphic arts students in the Brown Visual Art Department. Stefan was interested in inspiring his students with strong examples of formal imagery and typographic ...
Introduction to the Urban Cultural Heritage & Creative Practice Research Collaborative
From the Winter 2012 Symposium held at Brown University. More information here.
“Creativity = Capital” by Joseph Beuys
Ian Alden Russell, Curator, David Winton Bell Gallery Joseph Beuys, “Creativity = Capital” (1983), lithograph. Gift of Ron Feldman. (PR 1986.110) CAPITAL is at present the work sustaining ability. Money is not an economic value though. The two genuine economic values involve the connection between ability (creativity) and product. That explains the formula presenting the expanded ...
“The Beast with Two Horns Like a Lamb” by Albrecht Dürer
Ian Alden Russell, Curator, David Winton Bell Gallery Albrecht Dürer “The Beast with Two Horns Like a Lamb” from The Apocalypse (1498), Woodcut. (PR 0.334) On one of my first days as the new curator of the David Winton Bell Gallery, it was a wonderful serendipity to be hanging a print from one of the ...
“Donald Duck meets Mondrian” by Eduardo Paolozzi
Ian Alden Russell, Curator, David Winton Bell Gallery Eduardo Paolozzi, “Donald Duck Meets Mondrian” from the portfolio Moonstrips Empire News (1967), Color screen print. Gift of Dr Jack Solomon. (PR 1986.31) Today we were viewing British and American prints from the collection with the students of Prof. Cathy Zerner’s class for an upcoming exhibition they ...
Tracing heritage erasure along I-195
Video presentation for the “Heritage Erasure: Vandalism and Obliteration in the Historic Environment” session of the “Peoples, places, stories 2011″ conference at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Created from the archive of Fiona Hallinan’s artist project “Roadscore | Invisible String”. Thank you to Fiona Hallinan, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, the John Nicholas Brown Center for ...
Art and archaeology: A modern allegory
2011 ‘Art and archaeology: A modern allegory’ a comment on Rodney Harrison’s article ‘Surface assemblages: Towards and archaeology in and of the present’ in Archaeological Dialogues 18 (2) 176–180. Read it here.
Exquisite Things in Contexts, Haffenreffer Museum Annual Newsletter
Exquisite Things: An exhibition of connections within collections from the May 2011 issue of Contexts – The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology’s Annual Newsletter –by Ian Russell This past December, the students of Things: The Material Worlds of Humanity opened a new off-site exhibition project for the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology. Located in the newly reopened Stephen ...