PROJECTS

Robert Storr on Kill for Peace

1323232 — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 15:55:00 -0400

“The Vietnam War may seem long ago and far away to more recent generations but it was not only a profoundly divisive and thereby defining event for many who came of age during it, it remains for Americans of all ages a nagging example of an inherently ill-conceived and unwinnable foreign adventure in the post-colonial era and an unhealed wound in the national psyche. More so than in any war before it, the cultural community as a whole and visual artists in particular responded by making work and organizing protests that raise countless questions about the moral obligations and political efficacy—or inefficacy—of artistic activism, as well as about the aesthetics of dissent. Speaking from the position of a scholar who came of age during another round of such misadventures—the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan—Matthew Israel closely examines the legacy of Vietnam War era art with keen and fair-minded attention to its ideals, achievements and failures. His is an indispensable book about a grim, much-ignored chapter in the history of American art in the second half of the 20th century, a book about how ‘then’ contains lessons for ‘now’—and for the future.”

Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War will be published by University of Texas Press this summer.

ARLIS/NY to visit Artsy

1323232 — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 10:22:00 -0400

ARLIS/NY (New York Metropolitan Chapter of the Art Libraries Society of North America) will be visiting Artsy this Thursday. Read more about the event here.

Artsy and The Art Genome Project profiled in Domus

1323232 — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 11:47:00 -0400

Read the full article here. The article was written by Jonathan Olivares, founder of Jonathan Olivares Design Research and author of A Taxonomy of Office Chairs (Phaidon, 2011).

Talk at Sotheby's Institute of Art

1323232 — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 12:51:00 -0500

Yesterday Matthew spoke about Artsy and The Art Genome Project at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York.

INTERVIEWED BY NEW LEARNING TIMES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY

1323232 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 20:59:00 -0500

Matthew was recently interviewed by The New Learning Times (of EdLab, at Columbia University’s Teachers College). Read the interview here.

One of top art figures to follow on Twitter

1323232 — Wed, 13 Feb 2013 10:44:00 -0500

Yesterday Matthew was named one of fifty “influential art figures to follow on Twitter” by Complex.

Speaking at the Whitney

1323232 — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 10:43:00 -0500

On February 12th, Matthew will be speaking about Artsy and “exploring art online” as part of a panel at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Kill for Peace available Summer 2013

1323232 — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:17:00 -0500

Artsy on CNBC

1323232 — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:26:00 -0500

Carter Cleveland, the founder and CEO of Artsy, discussed Artsy and The Art Genome Project on CNBC yesterday. Watch it here.

At Institute of Fine Arts Alumni Panel

1323232 — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:30:18 -0500

Matthew will be speaking about Artsy and The Art Genome Project as part of an alumni career panel at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU on February 13th from 5-6 P.M.

Art.sy in The Economist

1323232 — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 18:47:53 -0500

The Economist posted an article today on Art.sy and The Art Genome Project. Read it here.

Art.sy CAA Session, February 14th

1323232 — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:08:25 -0500

Matthew and Christine Kuan will be discussing Art.sy and The Art Genome Project at the College Art Association’s Annual Conference on February 14th from 8-9 AM. For more information on the session (and the conference in general) see here.

Kill for Peace featured in UT Press Spring Catalog

1323232 — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:07:03 -0500

The full catalog is available here.

Talk at Harvard

1323232 — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 12:17:46 -0500

Matthew will be speaking today about Art.sy and The Art Genome Project at The Harvard Advocate. The talk was organized by the Harvard Art Museum Undergraduate Connection (HAMUC).

Kill for Peace Available for Pre-Order

1323232 — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 12:07:00 -0500

Matthew’s book, Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War, is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com.

Lucy Lippard (writer, activist and author of A Different War), says this of the book:

Israel’s significant contribution lies in his extensive research and the way he contextualizes the art as it parallels the history of the Vietnam War. This is a smart way of analyzing the timeliness and effectiveness of antiwar art and has not been done at this length and depth…There is no other book that covers this territory anywhere as thoroughly. It will be very useful for teaching.

(Image above is Carol Summers, Kill for Peace, from the print portfolio, Artists and Writers Against the War in Vietnam, 1967. Screenprint with punched holes.)

Talk at VRA Chapter Meeting

1323232 — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:09:38 -0500

Matthew will be speaking about Art.sy and The Art Genome Project today at the Visual Resources Association’s New York Chapter meeting at ARTstor.

The catalogue for Tal R’s upcoming...

1323232 — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 12:40:00 -0500

The catalogue for Tal R’s upcoming exhibition—opening this Thursday, November 15th at Cheim & Read—is now available. Matthew has written the essay, entitled “The Sensuous and the Making Strange.” Learn more here.

Art.sy is public

1323232 — Mon, 08 Oct 2012 18:08:00 -0400

Art.sy is now accessible without an invite. Read coverage of the launch in The New York Times as well as ARTINFO, TechCrunch, The Verge, Chronicle of Philanthropy; Atlantic Wire, Fortune, Flash Art, Center for the Future of Museums and The New York Times ArtsBeat blog.

Art.sy on WNYC

1323232 — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 11:08:00 -0400

This morning Art.sy was featured on WNYC’s The Takeaway. Listen below.

Essay on Tal R

1323232 — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 22:14:47 -0400

Matthew has written the catalogue essay for the upcoming Tal R exhibition at Cheim & Read. The exhibition opens November 1st.