Tag Archive "triennial"

New Museum organizes Youthie triennial in 2009

Via Art Fag City and artinfo, the youth art boom gets its own triennial!! The New Museum will attempt to define the generation born around 1980 in an international show they’re calling “Younger than Jesus.” You know who you are and you’re wanted. According to artinfo, 150 “informers” are helping the NM curators unearth the talent. …here’s the report: NEW YORK—Does the art world need yet another festival? The New Museum of Contemporary Art thinks so and announced today that it is launching a new triennial next year. The first edition of the triennial, which bears the provocative title “Younger ... More » »

Photographing identity

Clarissa Sligh’s photograph of Jake, back when she was Deb, from the series Jake in Transition Although Roberta and I went to the Woodmere Museum’s second Triennial of Contemporary Photography a week ago, I am still pondering some of what I saw, namely the photographs and text by Clarissa Sligh. Sligh, who teaches at the University of Pennsylvania, documented the transformation of someone born a woman who was so sure she was really a man that she underwent sex-change surgery and hormone treatments. The photos of Jake are sometimes breathtakingly beautiful, sometimes hard to look at even from the corner ... More » »