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Text: Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture

Mar 22, ’11 9:05 PM

Museums and Communities: The Politics of Public Culture. Karp, Ivan, Christine Mullen Kreamer, and Steven D. Lavine.

From Library Journal:

This companion volume to Exhibiting Culture (Smithsonian Pr., 1991) contains a series of essays that illustrate both the struggles and the collaborations between museums and the communities they aim to serve. Despite the essay format, common themes emerge. As America makes the transition from an industrial age to an information age, museums must review and revamp philosophy, mission, practices, and services; attempt to reconcile frequently incompatible aims; and alter programming to accommodate more diverse constituencies. In this context, forming a strong communicative circle linking exhibits and viewers is seen as vital to restoring wholeness to our pluralistic cultural arena. The range of voices heard to great effect in the preceding book continue to speak out here. Strongly recommended.
- Vicki Gadberry, Harris Media Ctr., Mars Hill Coll., N.C.

 

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Text: Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture

Mar 22, ’11 8:59 PM

Sturken, Marita and Lisa Cartwright, “Images, Power and Politics” in Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture

Visual culture is central to how we communicate. Our lives are dominated by images and by visual technologies that allow for the local and global circulation of ideas, information, and politics. In this increasingly visual world, how can we best decipher and understand the many ways that our everyday lives are organized around looking practices and the many images we encounter each day? Now in a new edition, Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture provides a comprehensive and engaging overview of how we understand a wide array of visual media and how we use images to express ourselves, to communicate, to play, and to learn. Marita Sturken and Lisa Cartwright–two leading scholars in the emergent and dynamic field of visual culture and communication–examine the diverse range of approaches to visual analysis and lead students through key theories and concepts.

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Interview with artist Thomas Hirschhorn

Mar 22, ’11 8:43 PM

Interview with artist Thomas Hirschhorn

Listening to Thomas Hirschhorn talk about art, it’s hard to resist the sensation that all the other artists have got it wrong. Not that he’s critical of their work — in fact, I’ve never heard him mention another living artist by name. It’s more a matter of getting caught up in his enthusiasm. Thomas Hirschhorn is a fanatic. His ardor for the thinkers after whom he names many of his works — Ingeborg Bachmann Kiosk, Deleuze Monument, Bataille Monument, and most recently, 24h Foucault — is evident not only in these works’ devotion to their subjects’ writings, but also in the sheer volume of material deployed toward this end.

Viewers must be forgiven for feeling overwhelmed by the amount of verbiage in Hirschhorn’s displays. How can they be expected to absorb all of it? How can they be expected to absorb ANY of it?

The answer is that they’re not. Whenever he’s given the chance, Hirschhorn reiterates that his works are not about education or the betterment of the viewer (“I am not a social worker”). Nonetheless, specialists in the fields of philosophy and museum education are, not surpsingly, unimpressed by what they see as his forays into their departments. By their standards, his artworks are failed attempts at didacticism. And what’s more, they don’t show their lofty subjects the respect they are due.

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Glen Ligon: America

Mar 22, ’11 8:34 PM

Glenn Ligon: America

Glenn Ligon: AMERICA is the first comprehensive mid-career retrospective devoted to this pioneering New York–based artist. Throughout his career, Ligon (b. 1960) has pursued an incisive exploration of American history, literature, and society across a body of work that builds critically on the legacies of modern painting and more recent conceptual art. He is best known for his landmark series of text-based paintings, made since the late 1980s, which draw on the writings and speech of diverse figures including Jean Genet, Zora Neale Hurston, Jesse Jackson, and Richard Pryor. Ligon’s subject matter ranges widely from the Million Man March and the aftermath of slavery to 1970s coloring books and the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe—all treated within artworks that are both politically provocative and beautiful to behold.

 

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Artist: Tucuman Arde

Mar 22, ’11 8:30 PM

Tucuman Arde

“Tucuman Arde” is the name of a project executed by a collective of artists in Argentina in 1968. The artists conceived of art as an effective instrument for social change, and through the Tucuman Arde project they sought to bring the distressed social conditions of the Tucuman province to the attention of a large public. The project was conceived of as an intervention in mass communication, a circuit of counterinformation against the official one of the dictatorship.

A videotape about at the Queens Museum in New York resituating this important work in the context of Conceptual Art. In her essay “Escape Attempts,” Lucy Lippard had already pointed to the importance of the “Rosario group” as a model of a politicized conceptual art practice (in Ann Goldstein and Anne Rorimer, eds., Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975, Museum of Contemporary Art and MIT Press, Los Angeles, 1995). The catalogue for the Queens exhibition includes information on the Tucuman Arde project, and an essay from the 1968 exhibition is included in Alexander Alberro and Blake Stimson’s anthology Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology (MIT Press, 1999).

 

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U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services

Mar 22, ’11 7:58 PM

U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services

The USCIS LAWS section provides information on laws, regulations and interpretations controlling immigration and the work of the immigration-related components of the Department of Homeland Security.

The LAWS section includes several legal resources linked on the left of this page.  These links include information on:

 

 

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Cornell University Legal Information Institute: Immigration

Mar 22, ’11 7:56 PM

Cornell University Legal Information Institute: Immigration

Federal immigration law determines whether a person is an alien, the rights, duties, and obligations associated with being an alien in the United States, and how aliens gain residence or citizenship within the United States. It also provides the means by which certain aliens can become legally naturalized citizens with full rights of citizenship. Immigration law serves as a gatekeeper for the nation’s border, determining who may enter, how long they may stay, and when they must leave.

 

 

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New Immigrant Community Empowerment: Immigrant Family Services

Mar 22, ’11 7:54 PM

New Immigrant Community Empowerment: Immigrant Family Services

The Immigrant Family Services Program is a new program at NICE, in  collaboration  CIANA (Center for the Integration and Advancement of New Americans), and funded by DYCD citywide initiative to provide services to new immigrants and refugees.

The primary goal of the work is to help individuals and families in the immigrant community get ahead while also connecting them with others in the same situation. Case Management, Individual and Group Counseling, Educational Workshops, and Translation Services, are examples of activities available.

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MinKwon Center For Community Action

Mar 22, ’11 7:48 PM

MinKwon Center For Community Action

For 25 years, the MinKwon Center has provided free services for our community members – especially low-income people and recent immigrants – through our Social Services Program.  Our accomplishments include introducing the first ever legal clinic for the Korean community together with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) more than 24 years ago, and in 2004 we worked with AALDEF to launch the first project offering full legal representation for the Korean community for low-income Korean immigrants facing workplace abuses and workers rights violations.

Today, this Program provides a comprehensive range of social and legal services to low-income community members, including Korean Americans, limited-English-proficient immigrants, and other community members seeking assistance.  While many community members continue to face major obstacles and legal problems, our goal is to provide critically-needed, high-quality services that will alleviate their struggles and educate the community on their rights.

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Arab American Association of New York

Mar 22, ’11 7:44 PM

Arab American Association of New York

Our goal is to provide support for individuals and families to learn about and gain access to various public benefits and services that will assist new immigrants in navigating a new society and creating more stable families.

Services are offered daily during our regular business hours, from 10:00am to 5:00pm, Monday through Friday. They are always free unless otherwise denoted.

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