Posts Tagged ‘video’
YouTube as Fine Art
In the latest high art/pop culture mash-up, the Guggenheim and YouTube have joined forces to create an exhibit that celebrates and examines online video. This weekend, the museum announced the twenty winning videos for the installation “YouTube Play. A Biennial of Creative Video.” The videos were culled from more than 23,000 submissions from [...]
Highlights from The Whitney Biennial
So I finally made it to the Whitney Biennial and it was glorious. After profiling Kate Gilmore, I was really excited to see her piece, and it was definitely one of the best videos in the show. And one of the most popular -- most people stayed glued to the screen for the entire piece. What's really cool, though, is that the video is shown in the [...]
In the Studio: Kate Gilmore
As an artist whose primary theme is struggle, Kate Gilmore’s success has been complicated. “A lot of my work is about overcoming failure, so when people start encouraging your work,” she says, laughing, “it adds a whole other confusing layer to it because you’re not struggling as much anymore.” Gilmore, 34, sits in a rocking chair in [...]