Jin Shan’s “My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!” featured in DRA

Posted by Ian on Jan 11, 2013 in arts, news, press, reviews

Jordan Mainser 2013 Art + Twitter = Chinese Democracy, DRA. Read it here.

The Phoenix selects rolemodelplaytime & My dad is Li Gang! as standout exhibitions

Posted by Ian on Dec 18, 2012 in arts, news, press, reviews

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.

A conversation with Jin Shan 靳山

Posted by Ian on Nov 27, 2012 in news, video

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

Posted by Ian on Nov 25, 2012 in news, video

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; […]

Betsey Biggs’ Postcard Project featured in Bettery Magazine

Posted by Ian on Nov 13, 2012 in news, press, reviews

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.

Towards an ethics of oblivion and forgetting: The parallax view

Posted by Ian on Nov 4, 2012 in academic, articles, publications

2012 ‘Towards an ethics of oblivion and forgetting: The parallax view’ in Heritage & Society, Vol. 5, Iss. 2, pp. 249-272. Read it here.

Art at 55 Power

Posted by Ian on Nov 4, 2012 in arts, catalogues, publications

2012 Art at 55 Power, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University. Catalog entries for Joseph Beuys, Chuck Close, Julian Lethbridge, Julian Schnabel, & Neil Welliver.

Jin Shan 靳山 | My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!

Posted by Ian on Nov 4, 2012 in arts, news, publications, video

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

‘Cultural Creativity’ & ‘Archaeological Influences in the Arts’

Posted by Ian on Sep 20, 2012 in academic, arts, essays, publications | No Comments

2012 Entries for The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, Oxford University Press, Oxford.  

College Hill Independent review of Jin Shan 靳山 | My dad is Li Gang! 我爸是李刚!

Posted by Ian on Sep 17, 2012 in news, press, reviews

Claudia Norton 2012 “The melting phallus of Jin Shan’s My dad is Li Gang!” College Hill Independent, September 14. Read it here.