Dave McKenzie

In 1987, the playwright Adrienne Kennedy wrote a list of all the people who had influenced her creativity, which became a book titled People Who Led to My Plays.

Was that the artist who was wearing headphones at the opening, on a lit set and moving to the beat of a tune heard only by him, simultaneously

The Smithsonian American Art Museum announced its 13 nominees for the biennial James Dicke award for contemporary artists under 50.

The Whitney Biennial curators have chosen the 103 participants for this years exhibition. The show is the United States most important survey of emerging American art. The 2014 edition will take place March 7–May 25, 2014. It will be the last Biennial in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s building at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street before the Museum moves downtown to its new building in the spring of 2015. This is the 77th in the Museum’s ongoing series of Annuals and Biennials begun in 1932 by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney.

Anthology is the artist’s attempt to right a historical wrong, and provide a voice to African-American artists, whose performance art has long been underrepresented and largely undocumented.

Beginning with a free public reception from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m., on Thursday, April 15, 2010 the Aspen Art Museum presents an exhibition

Benrimon Contemporary presents Configured, an exhibition featuring works of self-portraiture by artists including Njideka Akunyili, William Cordova

The winner of an art prize is declared. Does the award ensure more than a media-storm of fame and notoriety for the recipient? Of course, it will provide a means, a vital resource to build up strength of time and materials. And it does invariably function as a coveted add-on or perhaps extension of the branding of a private collection, foundation or art museum. Looking over our shoulder though, will we see the work chosen as an embodiment of the zeitgeist, as a kind of a memorial to a bygone age?