Art & Spirituality

What place does spirituality have in contemporary culture?

What relationship did Kandinsky's writing have to the fauve and post imprssionist tradition? How was paint made during that time? How common were intense colors like red? Conversely, our culture is saturated with color.

Fred Tomaselli

Anish Kapoor


Shirazeh Houshiary & Pip Horne

James Lee Byars

Ana Mendieta

Mark Wallinger

Andres Serrano

How does spirtuality engage a critical discourse? Is spiritually inspired art too idealistic? How has the public impression of art shifted, i.e. the veneration of abstract art (often aligned with spiritual components) altered our contemporary understanding of both art and spirituality?

Public Art

Much of this work is focused on eliminating the distinction between art and life, what debt does it owe claes oldenburg?

Ann Hamilton

Roland Barthes, "Death of the Author", the real author is the reader who brings it to life. Argues against passive reception and toward active participation. Michael Fried, "Art and Objecthood"

How does the social bond between maker and receiver affect the success of the work? By that I mean, does generosity as a literal interpretation, (something physically exchanged) transform the outcome of the work? All artwork ultimately offers something, the audience always takes from the experience, how is that different from this work?
Rirkrit Tiravanija

Rirkrit Tiravanija

Felix Gonzalez Torres

Felix Gonzalez Torres

What debt does this current breadth of work by such artists as Torres, Tiravanija, and Kinmont owe the post minimal movement? A desire to question the foundation/art establishment by making ephemeral or location specific work that exists beyond the commercially viable.