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
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.
The Phoenix selects rolemodelplaytime & My dad is Li Gang! as standout exhibitions
In his 2012 wrap up, arts critic Greg Cooke included rolemodelplaytime and Jin Shan’s My dad is Li Gang! as standout exhibitions in a year-end wrap-up for the arts scene in Rhode Island. Greg Cooke 2012 “Fantasy, reality, and the in-between: Lasting impressions” The Providence Phoenix, 18 December. Read it here.
“Circle Dance” by Tom Friedman launched at Brown University
On December 5, 2012, artist Tom Friedman delivered a lecture at Brown University’s Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, marking the launch of the installation of his sculpture “Circle Dance” on the university’s campus. A gift from an anonymous donor, the work activates “The Walk” a new development within the university’s campus redesign. The sculpture […]
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
Circle Dance by Tom Friedman installed at Brown University
Over the week of November 26-30, 2012, Circle Dance (2010) by American conceptual artist Tom Friedman arrives at Brown University. Based on Henri Matisse’s painting La Danse, the stainless steel sculpture (made from a cast of a model made with aluminum roasting tins) will be installed on “The Walk” between Angell and Waterman Streets. The newest […]
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; […]