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The Aesthetics of Terror Cancelled Again

by Art Fag City on January 31, 2009

Talk about a show with some bad luck. The Aesthetics of Terror was canceled last fall after disputes between its curator Manon Slome and Chelsea Art Museum president Dorthea Kesser were deemed unresolvable, and will now see its second venue, that of the Rose Art Museum fall through. My condolences to all those involved in […]

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Breaking! The Aesthetics of Terror at The Chelsea Art Museum Cancelled

by Art Fag City on September 25, 2008

This just in: The Aesthetics of Terror, an exhibition scheduled for launch this November at the Chelsea Art Museum has been canceled. by museum president Dorothea Keeser. Artists were informed yesterday morning that Museum president Dorothea Keeser felt the show “glorified terrorism and showed disrespect for its victims.” Amongst the better known artists included are […]

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The Chelsea Art Museum’s Dialectics of Terror Catalog Raises More Questions

by Art Fag City on September 28, 2008

Earlier this week I reported the cancellation of the Chelsea Art Museum’s exhibition, Dialectics of Terror, (formerly named The Aesthetics of Terror),  and thanks to an anonymous tipster I now have the much disputed exhibition catalog in the form of a PDF.    While it’s impossible to know where the points of contention were in the […]

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FOXNews.com Reports on Canceled Exhibition at The Chelsea Art Museum

by Art Fag City on September 30, 2008

Josh Azzarella’s Untitled #23 (Lynndied) was to be part of the canceled terror exhibition at the Chelsea Art Museum. FOXNews.com runs a full report on the cancellation of Dialectics of Terror at the Chelsea Art Museum. A clip below. A controversial art exhibition that includes disturbing images of Iraq bombings and Baghdad’s notorious Abu Ghraib […]

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Chelsea Art Museum President Dorothea Keeser and Curator Manon Slome Respond

by Art Fag City on September 26, 2008

Josh Azzarella, from the series Still Works. President Dorothea Keeser at the Chelsea Art Museum spoke to me today about The Aesthetics of Terror, an exhibition this blog reported in error had been canceled on her authority. Curator Manon Slome called a halt to the exhibition as a result of significant differences in opinion regarding […]

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Climbing Generations Of Trauma And Muslim Heritage: Baseera Khan’s “iamuslima” at Participant Inc.

by Emily Colucci on March 28, 2017
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The personal is political is one of the longest enduring clichés in contemporary art. But, sometimes, an artist can dust off this tiresome trope to more effectively shed light on a critical issue with their own life and cultural heritage than with cold, hard facts.

The latest of these exhibitions is Baseera Khan’s iamuslima at Participant Inc. The show does more than just counter our current environment of Muslim bans and government-sanctioned discrimination. Instead, the artist takes aim at its historical legacy by referencing her and her family’s experiences.

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IMG MGMT: Land Art and the Nuclear Landscape

by Eric LoPresti on June 21, 2016
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Imagery of atomic test sites loomed large in public consciousness during the 1960s and 70s, when weekly atomic tests made front page news in the New York Times and in Life magazine. During the Cold War, the US detonated detonated over 80 devices between 10kt and 1200 kt each, for a total explosive yield of around ~50,000,000 tons: an overabundant earthmoving that happened to coincide precisely with the birth of Land Art.

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The Best of the Web, 2015

by The AFC Staff on December 23, 2015
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Millions of years from now, aliens and artificial intelligence will be confounded by the follies, foibles and idiosyncrasies of the human race. Henceforth, the 2015.

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Racist Quebec Film Draws Ire from Everyone

by Rea McNamara on November 27, 2015
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White guys are at it again. Earlier this week, Quebec filmmaker Dominic Gagnon’s of the North enraged Inuit throat singer Tanya Tagaq as a “painful and racist” experimental documentary that used her music without permission. Tagaq took to Twitter to complain about the Montreal International Documentary Film Festival’s (RIDM) recent screening of the film.

And she’s not wrong to be upset. A bit of background: of the North compiles user-generated YouTube footage from Nunavut and Northern Quebec; it’s a mash-up of Arctic tundra landscapes populated with oil rigs, hunting, and skidoos but also Inuit men vomiting after drinking binges, and even a desperate Buñuel-esque edit of a vagina that cuts into a video of a dog’s tail hair being trimmed.

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