‘Cultural Creativity’ & ‘Archaeological Influences in the Arts’
2012 Entries for The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Introducing the Art of Jin Shan
2012 ‘Introducing the Art of Jin Shan‘, catalog essay for the exhibition My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚! by Jin Shan, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University. Read it here.
“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 ...
“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 ...
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.
EU Transformations Curatorial Report: Ireland Project Scenario
2011 Curatorial Report for Transformations, an European Union funded land-art initiative. Read the article here.
Images of the Past
2012 Entry for ‘Cultural Heritage Management’ section in Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology, Springer, New York.
Unfinished Homes
2010 in Home, This Is It Gallery, Dublin. On the occasion of the exhibition “Home”. Read it here.