Comments on: On art, museums and culture wars. https://amyselwyn.photography/on-art-museums-and-culture-wars/ Photographer/Visual Artist Wed, 26 Apr 2023 14:22:41 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: amyadmin https://amyselwyn.photography/on-art-museums-and-culture-wars/#comment-125 Wed, 26 Apr 2023 14:22:41 +0000 https://amyselwyn.photography/?p=2415#comment-125 In reply to Eric Graig.

Thank you, Eric! There are 25 cards in total and they cut across a large number of the issues today. I hope they do, that is to say! I am planning on sharing more information about what I learned. You will NOT be surprised to hear that identity and climate are the two most prominent topic areas. Lots to say about that! Stay tuned, and thank you. I’m considering making the cards available for purchase (just have to swap out some images for rights-cleared images, of course). And making new cards every year to keep up with the issues!

]]> By: Eric Graig https://amyselwyn.photography/on-art-museums-and-culture-wars/#comment-124 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 20:40:14 +0000 https://amyselwyn.photography/?p=2415#comment-124 These are brilliant questions. Are there other cards? Will you share how curators, gallery owners, academics responded (names with held of course). There is a somewhat larger question related to your second card about the challenges straight white males face building careers as artists that has to do with the subjects of contemporary photography. Whatever the identity of the artist, identity (and environment) seems to me to be central in the work I see that is winning awards, getting shows, and securing publication. There is little photography that I see about photography itself. There is little about the medium’s basic elements. More and more, it’s all about the subject. In such a world photography becomes less an art and more a pedagogy. I don’t believe we see this in painting or sculpture or any of the other visual arts. This world shows scant interest in Weston, Adams, Callahan or even Steven Shore, William Eggelston, Joel Meyerowitz, the Bechers, etc. I’d agree that there is no point in duplicating these artists but surely there is a place for photography that doesn’t merely seek to instruct.

]]> By: amyadmin https://amyselwyn.photography/on-art-museums-and-culture-wars/#comment-123 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 16:20:22 +0000 https://amyselwyn.photography/?p=2415#comment-123 In reply to Gail.

Thank you x

]]> By: Gail https://amyselwyn.photography/on-art-museums-and-culture-wars/#comment-122 Mon, 24 Apr 2023 15:36:21 +0000 https://amyselwyn.photography/?p=2415#comment-122 Having worked in museums, I love these grounding questions that bring together our humanity and the job.
Fascinating. Compelling.

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